How to Build a Console Table (No Nails Needed!)
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Impressed by now trending raffia-coated home furniture, I’m exhibiting you how to create your own Tv console desk covered in wallpaper for $150!
**I partnered with Titebond for this venture which would make me truly fired up because…I applied their original wood glue and ONLY their wooden glue to hold my overall table jointly! What?!**
The objective for my property was a tall and large desk without having any visible supports that broke up the clear traces. The all round dimensions of my finished desk are 70″ large and 35″ tall. So hold that in thoughts with the components and cut lists beneath!
What to Purchase
What to Reduce
1x2s:
- (4) @ 32″
- (7) @ 14-1/2″
- (2) @ 70″
3/4″ plywood:
- (4) 32″ extensive x 16″ huge
- (2) 70″ lengthy x 16″ extensive
Developing the Console Table Containers
In essence we are developing 3 different containers. 2 will be the legs and 1 will be the tabletop.
Start with the 2 lesser bins (legs) to get your feet damp. Lay a 32″ piece of plywood down and insert your Titebond wood glue together the best facet of all 4 edges. Then lay a 1×2 on its facet on best of the glue, earning confident it is flush with the edge of the plywood.
The 32″ parts of 1×2 will go from edge to edge of the plywood although the 14.5″ items must match snuggly in between.
As soon as you have the 1x2s lined up on the edges just so, operate a bead of wood glue on the top rated of them.
Carefully set a further 32″ piece of plywood on prime. Now your box leg is complete!
Repeat for the other leg, employing a handful of clamps if necessary to build super limited joints!
You are going to abide by the same actions to produce the tabletop, only you are going to incorporate an further 14.5″ 1×2 support someplace in the middle. This will enable retain the very long 1x2s from sinking in and insert overall security to the desk.
Waiting around is the Toughest Portion
If you have at any time tried out to pry wooden apart that’s been glued with Titebond, even for a handful of minutes, you know it’s essentially unattainable to do well.
And which is why you really don’t need to have any nails or screws to hold your table jointly. Wood glue, when totally dried and fixed, is essentially much better than fasteners! So insane but oh so accurate!
Allow your 3 bins dry and set up for at least 30 minutes ahead of relocating on to the up coming action.
Including Legs to the Desk Prime
Assuming your floor is degree, set your leg containers upright, around 70″ aside. Implement ample quantities of wood glue to the tippy top rated of your legs and gently set the tabletop in spot. Change the prime so it’s flush with the outside of your leg on just one aspect before changing the other leg.
For a desk this substantial, it would be beneficial to have a close friend or spouse hold the excellent side in put though you manipulate the other aspect. But with a several back again-and-forths, you can cope with it oneself far too!
I applied a speed sq. to make confident the legs were being at 90-diploma angles. Not a undesirable tool to have in your arsenal if you never have one currently!
When you are happy with your leg condition, let it sit for about 30 minutes before you get started covering everything in wallpaper!
Adhering Wallpaper to the Console Desk
I adore the texture of a raffia or light-weight-colored wooden table. And following a buddy shared an affordable peel-and-adhere wallpaper she made use of that looked like faux grasscloth, I understood I could use that to build the texture I preferred for this piece of furnishings.
I also needed the desk to seem like a person slab of wooden. To develop that effect with the wallpaper, I begun at the bottom of just one leg, took it up and above the prime, and then down the other leg with out any cuts or seams. I also lined it up with the again edge of the desk so it could fold and go down the front edge with no any seams.
Ideally, the video clip far better illustrates how I managed the corners, so enjoy it earlier mentioned! I experienced the paper that arrived from the tabletop less than the paper from the legs. Then I scored on the paper alone the 45-degree angle from the inside corner to the outdoors corner of the wood framework. I cut any surplus paper from the prime and then caught it down. Subsequent, I reduce the layer of paper coming from the legs alongside the line I just scored. So when every little thing was laid flat and stuck down good, it seems to be like my legs and tabletop were being mitered together.
At first I planned to thoroughly trim the excessive at the close of the front edge, but due to the fact it folded so properly with out any bubbling, I folded the inch or so surplus and trapped it to the within of the table.
And that got covered up next with one more operate of wallpaper. I bought adequate wallpaper (2 rolls) to cover the within of the legs and the underside of the tabletop. And since I was less involved on the underside about viewing seams, I covered them independently and finished up not masking the underside of the tabletop alone. You truly simply cannot see it through daily use and it saved me $27 by not opening the second roll.🤷♀️
Oh and for the legs, the within wallpaper was flush with the front edge so the excessive was just folded around and stuck on to the back of the legs. Of course, it appears to be like unfinished from the backside. BUT WHO CARES?!
The only position I required to trim wallpaper was at the foundation of the legs. I propped up one leg at a time with a scrap piece of 1×2 so I could trim it as specifically as attainable. I didn’t want any sliver of wood exhibiting and providing absent my table’s secrets!
About an hour or so just after finishing the table, there was nevertheless a tiny wobble to it if you shifted it from aspect to facet. But following leaving it alone overnight, the wiggle was gone and this desk was durable, secure and prepared to shift to its new residence!
I ordered our poufs from House Depot* to serve as decoration AND further seating. They are like advanced beanbag chairs and the kids have currently pulled them out to sit and roll all-around a number of instances!
The wallpaper guiding the Tv set and console was recently hung to produce an accent wall. I like it by itself but I’m nonetheless seeking to figure out if I like the place as a whole with the wallpaper in it.🤔
But we do love the sleekness of our Frame Tv*! It was a splurge we handled ourselves to when our former residence offered for way over the asking rate. Now I’m considering I may possibly brush some gold paint on the body to match other gold frames in the room. The jobs and concepts by no means cease all around in this article! Ha!
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