The interior of any home will be decorated with crafts made with my own hands. Not the most difficult option for individual creativity is a home table made of wood. It's easy to create a design yourself. Here the flight of imagination is unlimited, but you need to start with the choice of design, purpose and design features that you plan to implement. At the very beginning, you need to create drawings and drawings from which you can assemble the finished table.
Drawings and diagrams
Initially, work out each element in detail, especially decorative additions, if they are planned. This is exactly the case when decoration will not be superfluous. It is best to draw the drawing in accordance with the actual dimensions by selecting the appropriate scale on paper.
The type of table can be very diverse, from a regular desk to a children's massage table. It is also possible to make a table for a bathhouse with your own hands. One of the easiest to make is a corner table.
It’s not so difficult to create a small transformer or a book-table. It takes up little space in the room and is functional in many situations. The sliding design will help save some space. A carpentry table is very suitable for home construction. And, of course, a table on the veranda, where you can gather the whole family for evening tea.
Decor
Decoration will greatly improve appearance. Almost any table design can be decorated with carved legs, especially if you decide to implement the project in a rustic style. The addition of tabletop decor with lighting from LED lamps will look elegant. A glowing table in the corner of the living room will add warmth to a cold winter night. There can be an endless number of options, but the main thing is not to overdo it and not overdo it with decorations.
Style and design
There are no restrictions or strict boundaries for your own creativity. The easiest way to do original item- perform it in the “antique” style. This is the most common and not too difficult craft to perform. Imitation of antiquity will decorate almost any interior.
Design homemade table Ideally, it should fit organically into the interior of the room in which it is planned to be used. Possible various shapes and artistic solutions. Wood products allow you to experiment with geometry.
About how to do unusual table, watch in the next video.
Form
Such a table can have different angles and will not lose any functionality. Each side of such a structure can be secured permanent places for family members. Smaller sides are for children. Larger sides are for adults.
Material
Wood is convenient to use in any condition. Recycling wooden structures is also quite suitable. It's great to use old boards. Many breeds only get better over time.
It's no secret that floors made from valuable species that have lasted a century are sometimes used to make musical instruments. When reusing, be sure to remove upper layer, which will give the final product a cleaner look. Products made from such material, without exaggeration, will last forever.
Combination of dissimilar materials
Combinations of wood and metal look original. The massive surface of the table will be decorated with iron, and ideally cast iron, legs. The combination of oak and cast iron will achieve excellent results. Heavy cast iron goes perfectly with oak or ash.
The combination of solid African rocks and metal structures will be unique. The result will amaze anyone, even the most demanding connoisseur.
Glass and wood go together perfectly
Graceful wooden stand will be the best decoration for glass table. Modern fastening devices will ensure reliable jointing of these materials. The round shape of the final product with this combination is the most optimal solution.
You can combine different materials
It is quite possible for a lighter concrete base install a wooden or glass top coffee table. A completely modern solution that will add a light industrial touch to the interior design. A combination of glass and concrete, as well as pine additions, will look great.
How can you use natural stone?
Quite an elegant combination if done in moderation. Do not overload the table structure with too heavy elements. Try to find a suitable base from natural stone. The design of the wooden top will be dictated by the stone itself. Place a solid wooden surface on it and you'll have a table like no other.
Beautiful examples and options
With your own hands it is quite possible to make very beautiful, original things that will look no worse than those made by famous masters. Homemade items will always be your pride and a topic of discussion among your friends.
What can you make yourself?
Almost any table can be used by each of us. This simple household item does not require special knowledge or special professional skills. We start making wood products at school, during labor lessons. Therefore, a simple wooden design of a laptop table will be quite feasible. And chairs and a bench for country house You can also make it yourself.
You can come up with your own design for home crafts. Folding table will not constantly occupy living space. It can combine several functions. From a place for changing a baby, to a work surface for home crafts.
A wide field for creativity will be provided by a combination of wood and other materials. Don't be afraid to experiment. Connect dissimilar objects together and you will achieve amazing results. Even if you decide to combine rarely combined elements, don't be afraid to try. Any ideas can be realized.
How to make a table?
Home construction It’s worth starting with a small coffee table. The design can be quite simple. A work surface can be purchased at a hardware supermarket.
Glued pine is best. Glued solids are less susceptible to deformation due to changes in humidity and temperature changes. It’s most convenient to pick up the legs for your craft there.
Desk
It is better to assemble it from ready-made wood panels- a completely reasonable start to home crafts. The easiest way to order finished elements or entire blocks with delivery is on a website that sells components for such work. Here you can find all the necessary accessories. All that remains is to spend a little time on assembly. Additional processing and adjustment will not be too difficult, the main thing is that you will gain the necessary experience for further creativity.
Kitchen table
It's not that difficult to make your own kitchen utensils. You can start with a small pine kitchen table. Legs are easiest to buy ready-made, pine is the most a budget option. It is easier to select the working surface to fit the planned dimensions. All that remains is, literally, to put the table on its feet.
Kitchen set
Assemble the kit kitchen furniture Anyone can make a wave according to their own drawings. You need certain skills to install opening doors, but this simple science can be learned by watching several videos on the Internet.
Required Tools
You can start with a small set. A hammer, a plane, a chisel, a wood saw, nails and screws can be found in every home. You will also need a ruler and a pencil. If you can purchase additional power tools, be sure to do so.
Electric planer in the house or a jigsaw will be useful for the following crafts. There must be such a tool good quality. He will last long years, even if you don’t use it every day.
Special tool
To achieve high quality it is better to use special equipment with electric drive. The acquisition costs will not be significant, and you will have the opportunity to move on to more complex projects in the future.
What can you purchase in addition to your existing electric drill:
electric jigsaw - will allow you to make high-quality cuts of any materials;
electric planer - will make the surface of the wood perfectly smooth;
a circular saw- will provide longitudinal or cross cutting of industrial quality;
mechanical device for milling work- will process the edges of your craft with an intricate pattern and help you cut out decorative elements on a wooden surface;
machine for grinding work - will do finishing a wooden surface is a simple and enjoyable task that does not require much effort.
It is best to purchase a combination power tool that combines several different functions in one device. This will reduce costs and allow you to implement many design ideas. By the way, a home electric drill can be supplemented with various attachments, which will expand its capabilities.
Accessories
If you decide to go to a craft store, stock up on everything you need right away. For your craft, you will need additional components to securely fasten the wooden parts together. The simplest steel corners will make the structure more reliable in operation. Don't skimp on additional decorative elements. They will not be superfluous, but will only decorate the appearance.
More grace wooden crafts They will provide ready-made kits that can be purchased in the store. Homemade will look very nice desk for a child, if you use metal legs from any ready-made kit furniture. It’s easy to make a bedside table for it yourself from the same standard kits. Handles and fittings can be picked up in the same store.
Fastening wooden structures
The ancient technology of wood joints without iron nails and glue is almost lost. But there’s no harm in trying. Fit all wooden joints with minimal gaps, drill holes with a diameter of six to eight millimeters in the joints and drive a dried wooden tenon into it.
If all wooden parts are dried out excessively before assembly, then over time they will gain required amount moisture and increase in size. The connection will become quite strong, and the swollen wooden tenon will give additional strength.
Traditional mounting options
The simplest and most reliable option is to drive a screw into the tree. Now they make special self-tapping screws for wooden joints, which, unlike a regular screw, do not require a precise hole to be screwed in. If the thickness of the connection is not very large, then you can do without additional holes. The wood screw will do everything on its own, especially if you use an electric screwdriver. This connection will last quite a long time without glue.
Why do you need glue?
To give a wooden structure additional strength, it is best to glue the articulated surfaces. You need a little glue, but the result will be excellent when combined with screws or nails, glued wooden connection will remain durable for many years. It is best to use water-based glue. There are many varieties of reliable wood glue available.
How to make an original home table?
Crafts own design It's not that difficult to create. The material can be found in any forest.
It will come out of solid wood unique craft. But this will require a little work. The ideal option is the base of a large tree, the diameter of which is more than eighty centimeters in circumference. If you can use part of the root system, you will have a reliable base for the table and no additional legs will be needed.
You need to understand that it will not be easy to deliver such a workpiece from the forest, but the result will pay off all the work; such a table cannot be compared with anything.
Table for a summer cottage
Outdoor table IR for suburban area You definitely need to do it yourself. The ideal material is the same log brought from the forest. It is convenient to make the base from birch logs of small diameter. They need to be dug into the ground about fifty centimeters.
Then level their tops by sawing off any excess wood. The working surface can be made from a log of large transverse diameter, sawing it lengthwise. The flat part will be the surface of the outdoor table.
All outdoor additional buildings are best made of wood. This one is natural natural material It tolerates moisture, heat and frost very well. It is also better to make a bench for your summer cottage yourself from the same wooden components. A homemade bench will look natural next to your handmade table.
Why is it better to use solid wood?
The structure of wood is such that its durability directly depends on how intact its integrity is. Therefore, since ancient times, solid logs have been used to build houses. With minimal processing, when the integral structure is preserved as much as possible, wooden structures can last hundreds of years without collapsing or changing their shape.
What can be made from solid wood?
First you need to be patient. Cutting down a tree and delivering it to your home is not the most difficult task. It is important to properly prepare the material for subsequent processing.
Preparing a wooden blank
It is imperative to rid the tree of excess moisture. If you can’t agree to do this at a woodworking plant that has special drying equipment, then it is quite possible to dry it at home.
Log harvesting is usually done in the spring, when the trunk has not begun to absorb moisture from the soil, that is, before the thaw. Usually this is the month of March. Natural drying lasts from several months to a year, depending on the type of wood.
Why is it important to use only dry material?
A raw tree will definitely crack as soon as the bark is removed, unless, of course, this is planned by your design idea. Some breeds change shape greatly if not dried properly.
Dry wood should be well cleaned and sanded; a light layer of textured varnish or stain would not hurt to give the product more texture. If the diameter of the circle is large enough, and part of the root system has become a reliable support, then the table is almost ready. The top part must be sanded well and varnished. So the ideal design for a laptop is ready.
Dimensions
If you want to make a large dining table from a solid log, you will have to work a little and use a chainsaw to make a longitudinal cut in the middle of the trunk. You will get two almost identical halves. If the width of one part is a meter or more, and the length is at least one and a half meters, then the base for dining table has already. You can leave bottom part semicircular or straighten by cutting off the semicircular lower part.
All that remains is to build reliable legs and treat the table surface with any in a convenient way. It is not necessary to make the table absolutely flat, especially if valuable types of wood were used. Moderate irregularities will give the craft additional charm.
How to use the second half of the log?
A little extra effort, and a strong bench for the table is ready. If the width of the log is sufficient, you can get two strong benches on both sides of the table. It is best to connect them rigidly in general design, or make two separate strong seats for several people. The bench, of course, will have to be leveled and all irregularities removed. Ideally, sand it well and cover it with varnish or stain.
Colors
Do not be too zealous in painting wooden products. If you decide to enhance the natural color, then coffee tones are best for any breed. It is optimal to use water-based varnishes and paints. They are less toxic and interact well with wood.
It is perfectly acceptable to use undyed materials with natural colors. Cast iron without additional coating and wood of natural color will become an original decorative solution that does not require additional color shades.
Raw aluminum and dark woods combine very well. The natural silver color and dark oak texture look very original. Elements with natural colors are well suited for additional decoration.
But components made of iron, unless, of course, it is stainless steel, need to be painted in any case. Even if your table with iron legs will always be indoors, the metal must be coated with any coloring compound. Iron corrodes even in dry and warm rooms and requires painting.
Wood coloring
When using planed wood products on outdoors Painting is required not only for decorative purposes. Good coverage will protect the tree and extend its service life. In this case, special compounds for external work are used. The color scheme can be any. The most acceptable are the same dark coffee shades.
Useful little things
- The wisest thing is to take your time. Any work requires thoughtfulness and precision in execution. Don't set yourself any deadlines. Do work when you are in the mood.
- If something doesn’t work out, put the craft aside and come back to it after a while. Such work will only be a joy, and you will achieve good results.
- Don't take on a complex project right away, start with simple work. It is necessary to gain some experience for subsequent more complex crafts. Using power tools will make your work easier. Be sure to follow all safety precautions when working with any tool used for wood processing.
- Even a small splinter can become a problem if you do not pay attention to it in time. Follow safety regulations. Always wear glasses when working with wooden products, especially if mechanical processing is used.
- If you have little experience, but have a desire to make at least a wooden table with your own hands own home, start by going to the building materials supermarket. There you will find everything you need for individual creativity. Design solutions The materials themselves will tell you.
- To begin with, use wooden blanks that require minimal post-processing.
- Carry out all work in spacious room. Small workshop in the country - perfect option. Painting should be carried out in a well-ventilated area, even if low-toxic compounds are used. Observe all required drying times for glued and painted parts.
Advantages and disadvantages
Handmade crafts do not always look perfect. But don't be upset about it. Minor flaws will be compensated by absolute satisfaction from the work done personally. Such disadvantages can be attributed rather to advantages. Product industrial production will not retain the warmth of your hands.
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A true classic: you can make a wooden outdoor table for your dacha with your own hands; we will provide drawings with the dimensions of such an extraordinary device in this article, and we will also talk about unique ideas and non-standard implementations of an ordinary outdoor table.
Preparation
Before you start making a table, you need to determine what exactly you want to make. To determine this, use the following categories:
- Weather resistance. Is your area prone to bad weather? Then you should not choose lightweight structures - they can not only fly away in the next storm, but also break something, damage or even injure someone. If it’s always calm at your dacha, and it only rains occasionally, you can choose easy options.
- Dimensions. The classic mistake of any master is to make a mistake in size. Calculate in advance how many people should fit at this table. Even if the possibility of an unexpected visit from guests is unlikely, it should be calculated in advance. Otherwise, you’ll have to cram ten people into a small table.
- Material. In addition to wood, there are many other materials that are more or less durable. Decide in advance on the main material. It should withstand all weather conditions and also suit your aesthetic tastes.
- Configuration Decide on the design in advance. What will it be: a folding table, a regular table with straight legs, a transforming table or something else? For each of these tables you will need certain parts and materials, and traveling to the city from the dacha is not always convenient.
- Complexity. This parameter expires from the previous one. Assess your strengths wisely and don’t take on something you can’t finish. Transformable tables and complex designs require certain tools, and most importantly, good carpentry and other skills.
Tree selection
The wood for your table should be reliable and resistant to rot. Of the common breeds, the most commonly used are:
- pine;
- cedar;
- fir;
- nut;
- maple;
- Apple tree;
- birch.
The exception is very soft rocks wood: alder, willow, poplar, aspen. Firstly, only professionals work with them competently, and secondly, due to their properties, they are simply not suitable for a strong outdoor table.
Additionally, it is recommended to immediately purchase paint and varnish products along with the wood. It would be a good idea to purchase special antiseptic and similar liquids. They will help get rid of problems with fungus and mold for several years to come. You can use several species for frames, legs and tabletops: nothing bad will happen. The main thing is not to take old rotten wood.
Tools
How to make a table from boards with your own hands for a summer house without good tools? It's practically impossible. Of the most necessary tools to create a table we need:
- regular hacksaw for wood;
- drill;
- screwdriver;
- circular saw / jigsaw / all together;
- hammer (if the table is on classic nails);
If possible, rent tools higher class, then you should pay attention to the following:
- Rotary miter box (allows you to make straight corners quickly and clearly).
- Eccentric grinder(for faster sanding of the surface).
- Milling machine (will greatly facilitate design work).
Don't forget about safety precautions! Buy construction glasses, gloves, and, if desired, a simple respirator. They are inexpensive, but they can protect your eyes, hands, and lungs.
Table options
Let's move on to the most important stage. How to make tables for a summer house with your own hands from wood: photos, drawings and progress of work with a variety of configurations.
Classic
A classic table with straight legs is a disaster for schoolchildren during labor lessons. It's quite easy to do:
- For the legs and crossbars, a thick beam of the same size is cut out. They are fastened to each other with nails, dowels or regular glue.
- The timber for the tabletop is cut, the tabletop is formed, the timber is fastened to each other with glue, with dowels, or with rougher options (self-tapping screws, self-tapping screws).
- The tabletop is attached to the rest of the table either using corners and short self-tapping screws, or using dowel connections.
- If necessary, additional crossbars, decorations, etc. are attached to the table.
The most important points that should be observed for a competent creation come from its features. First, you need to clearly compare the sizes. If you accidentally cut too much or, on the contrary, do not regret it and leave an extra centimeter, your table will sway from side to side. And finishing off a finished table is not the most pleasant thing. Secondly, you should not spare time and effort on wood processing. As soon as the tree swells and “leads” it, the table will also turn into a lame donkey.
The classic table is light in weight, but also has a low-strength structure. It is suitable for a small company and quiet, windless places, it is convenient to carry. But under heavy load it can simply fall apart.
Table with X legs
Convenient self-adjusting option. Due to some mobility and “lowering” of the design, the table can be installed on uneven places. It also gives it the ability to support more weight. For X-legs you will need timber with a thickness of at least 55 mm. The build process is as follows:
- To make the table look beautiful in appearance, we align the 4 pre-prepared slats using a machine or manually. The inclination should be about 50-51 degrees.
- We attach 2 planks under the tabletop using self-tapping screws, on the left and on the right. Total 2 slats for the legs on one side, two slats on the other.
- Don't forget to attach the paired planks so that the legs fit. Overlaps of 3-4 mm are required on each side.
- We throw our future legs on a workbench, table, flat floor, crossing them with the letter X. The most main parameter: compliance with the distance between the legs to the width of the table. A slight deviation of 2-3 cm is acceptable, but ideally these numbers should be equal.
- We mark the intersection with a bright marker (but not permanent), or better yet, with a pencil. Here it is necessary to remove half the thickness.
- Carefully coat the finished recesses with glue (for convenience, you can use cotton swabs), firmly squeeze the parts with any accessible ways: using a vice or other pressure. Leave for several days in a ventilated, dry place. It is important to build the press reliably and accurately from the very beginning - shift is unacceptable, otherwise you will have to start all over again. If necessary and you don’t want to bother with glue, the connection can be further strengthened with self-tapping screws.
- After final drying, we remove the structure from the press and check that everything is dry. We varnish the legs and leave them to dry for the amount of time specified in the instructions.
- We attach the varnished, dried legs to the tabletop - insert them into the grooves formed by the slats; if everything was done correctly, the legs should fit in with noticeable, but not stubborn resistance.
Can be used for gluing glue gun with special rods.
Table transformer
This outdoor wooden table for a summer cottage is assembled with your own hands according to the drawings immediately with benches, and can also be folded in half. It is very convenient and saves you time in all aspects. Firstly, you won’t have to make and carry benches as well. Secondly, the table can be folded in half and where it will be stored in winter, it will occupy a compact corner, and not a whole cubic meter of space. Let's get started:
You can see a clear example of a transforming table using wood and a support from scrap iron parts in the video below:
Checking and decorating
After assembling the table itself, there are two more important steps ahead:
You know how to make an outdoor wooden table for your garden with your own hands, and drawings with dimensions, educational videos and photo ideas will help you with this. We hope that you will use them, modify them to suit yourself and create a real masterpiece in your garden!
At the dacha there are very important items, but which you can do yourself, so as not to overpay, so our topic today is DIY garden table. You are free to make it any size you want to get a small table set, and a large one so that the whole family and guests can fit behind it, as well as folding models, functional, original, which are used as decoration, and so on. Below we will give you examples of each of the above groups, and also see how difficult or easy it is to make this important item.
Do-it-yourself wooden table for a summer house
Wood is relatively accessible and inexpensive, depending on what type of material you want to use to create DIY wooden table for the garden. In the vast majority of examples we're talking about about wooden boards of one thickness or another that make up the tabletop, and wooden beams are used for the legs and supporting elements of the structure, ideally suitable material for this task.
We can talk about the advantages of boards for a very long time, but, first of all, this is the availability of the material, its low cost, and, what is very important for home craftsmen and those for whom even simple tasks are an important task - working with wood does not require many complex, expensive tools and no knowledge of operating techniques is required. In principle, assembling a stool is a compulsory program for boys since school days, and we assure you that assembling DIY garden table made of wood not much more difficult.
But before you choose among the models DIY garden table, drawings and schemes, you will need to decide which one you need and for what purposes. The degree of success of the design may greatly depend on this, since the table itself will be good, but will not be suitable for the task at hand. So, if you need a portable model, then you should not make it using logs or similar heavy material, since moving such a colossus will not be easy. Round varieties look very interesting, but they are better used for filling the same round shapes. After all, although the circle allows you to seat guests, there will still be significantly less space on the surface of such a tabletop than on a round one. It is also important what the legs will stand on; if it is a completely flat concreted area, then you can choose models with four level legs. They look very elegant and are quite simple to make. But if you want to arrange a feast on the lawn or you are not confident in the absolute flatness of the floor surface, then it is better to choose more stable leg options, for example, oblique ones, which will allow you to maintain the stability of the structure in this situation.
DIY outdoor garden table
Is it the tree ideal material DIY outdoor garden table? Many doubt this, because in this case, water will constantly drip onto its wooden surface, both from rain and, for example, from watering, and this can negatively affect the wood. But, since all the positive aspects of this particular design are very numerous, it is worth thinking about special compounds that are used to paint wood. They do not change its structure, on the contrary, they can emphasize it, make it even brighter, even “more expensive”, but at the same time, they prevent the absorption of water into the surface and the appearance of all negative phenomena that are related to this. Therefore, just after finishing production, don’t be lazy and don’t save money - coat the finished product with a high-quality paint and varnish composition.
There may be several areas on the street where it would be appropriate DIY wooden table for a summer house, drawings which you could see above. First of all, this is a summer terrace or a place for eating, located near summer kitchen. There you will need a large, wide tabletop, which, ideally, is equipped with benches or chairs of exactly the same design, so that it all looks like one set. But we may need a table not only for eating, but also for doing gardening work. For example, in a garden it is best to install it in some picturesque clearing, fit it into landscape design. It is also needed on the finished one, because with it you can draw, sculpt, and play board games.
We would like to talk a little about special tables that are gaining more and more popularity among owners summer cottages. The fact is that a new variety has been added to the traditional set - a bar counter. This is a table top unusual shape– it is located on very high legs so that the person who sits behind it and who stands behind it are the same height. Such entertainment as a country bar, decorated, for example, in a beach style, greatly decorates the site. In the photo you can see what this might look like DIY wooden outdoor garden table.
There are no particular difficulties in the bar counter format; you will only need to understand what its size, height and width will be most comfortable for you. Another mandatory design element will be the presence large quantity shelves and drawers where you can put dishes and all other accessories for creating cocktails. The material for the construction can be either boards or pallets - boxes, which are in great demand today, although you will have to work with it no less than when knocking down table with boards for the garden with your own hands. The fact is that in these boxes there is not only their shelf life, but also the initially good or bad quality of the wood, therefore, in pursuit of ease of assembly, you can end up with a product of poor quality, crooked and with an uneven tabletop. And all because after one season of use, the boards begin to “drive” in different directions, so it is worth not only buying high-quality pallets initially, but also letting them sit for some time before work.
Continuing the theme of the bar counter, we want to show you a few more tall varieties. These are also auxiliary tables-trolleys, mobile and convenient for moving within the entire site. They come with small wheels that make them easy to carry, but also think about the material you use to make them as light as possible. In addition, developing the idea of a bar counter, you can do something much larger by making a circular tabletop, for example, on a fence framing a barbecue area. And the idea with the design of the stand round shape, which goes around the tree - it is not only practical, but also very beautiful. Previously, we could only see benches that were placed in a similar way, but it turned out that they would cope with this task just as well.
How to make a garden table with your own hands
To develop the theme of useful furniture, we will briefly show you the process of creating an auxiliary table. In this case, when solving the problem, how to make a garden table with your own hands, two main stages are used - creating a frame and designing a tabletop.
To create a frame, an appropriate drawing is selected, the length of all the boards and timber that are part of it is marked, and then they are sequentially knocked together. You see a ready-made, assembled frame, decorated with a pergola element on the high back. This will not only decorate the craft, but such a perforated plane can be used to store kitchen utensils. On top, on the recess, you need to lay a tabletop made of smooth material, for example, a laminated wide board, so that there are no gaps in the surface between the boards, since dirt will easily get clogged there. A technical hole is cut for a metal sink purchased at a plumbing store, as well as all the holes for communications, taps, and pipes that you will need. When installing a sink, carefully seal the edges of the hole; this will secure the element in the countertop and prevent water from penetrating inside. All that remains is to connect the structure to dacha system water supply, and drain the drain into a septic tank or cesspool.
If you want to DIY a traditionally shaped table, this will give you some advantages as you will be able to outfit the tabletop with very useful features. For example, make a small hole inside, in the center, where you can, if necessary, insert a large umbrella, protecting everyone who sits around it from the scorching rays of the sun.
And in cases where there are special requirements for functionality, you can go even further towards creativity. For example, make a recess in the middle of the table, inside of which there is a cooler bag. Ice is poured inside it and bottles of beer are placed - for a long summer feast. For those who don’t like beer creativity, they can place moss or unpretentious garden plants, which will simply decorate the appearance with their presence.
DIY garden table photo
When we use pallets, as we have already talked about, it is best to use a combination of them with other materials, or non-standard shape For finished product. You can see how beautiful this can look to improve your country life by looking at the example of creating DIY garden table, photo which is located below.
And also examples of more traditional tables with a “zest” - a folding element that makes such furniture extremely convenient to use. If they are not needed, then you can easily reduce their overall size by half or, in general, put them away until the moment when they are needed.
DIY table and bench for your garden
The ideal option, if you feel a sufficient degree of skill, is whole set, consisting of DIY tables and benches for your garden.
The examples above show that these kits can be different forms and sizes, but at the same time they look very stylish and expensive, precisely because they are made in the same style and their designs echo each other.
For everyone, the dacha evokes soybean associations. For example, for some it is work, for others it is outdoor recreation. In any case, on fresh air After working in the garden, any food will taste better. And in order to whatever you have to eat, as they say, on your knee, you can equip a special place, the center of which, naturally, will be the table. And such a piece of furniture, made with your own hands, will not only express the care and skill of the master, but will also serve as his pride.
How to make a garden table with your own hands - instructions
To make a table in the country, you don’t need any special skills or tools, because its main function is to stand. Therefore, even a beginner can make such furniture. When choosing a material for a country table, it is worth considering the nature of use: the furniture will be located outside in any weather, so it is important to choose a durable material.
How to make a wooden table for a summer house
It is necessary to carefully choose wood for a table, because each type of wood is good in the area in which it is used. For example, to use coniferous species you will have to soak them in a special solution and protect them from fire, but even all these actions will not help get rid of resin stains on the tablecloth. But hardwood, on the contrary, is excellent for these purposes.
Wooden table
The tabletop should consist of boards, at least three to five centimeters wide. For greater stability, they need to be nailed to the frame. The legs are usually made straight or crossed. To avoid the danger of getting a splinter during lunch, you need to carefully treat all surfaces. In addition, the finished table must be protected with special compounds. You can varnish the table for extra strength. As a rule, the varnish is applied in three layers, having previously been heated in a water bath.
You can also use logs to make a wooden table; they are also perfect for creating benches. You can also use narrow slats in combination with a metal frame.
In essence, making a table from wood comes down to two technologies: the cuts are connected to each other and form a dining plane; The cuts are fixed on a solid base.
How to make a stone table for a summer house
The stone table impresses with its inaccessibility and strength. It will definitely withstand all the tests of nature and will serve the family and dacha for many years.
You can reduce the cost of the design by laying out the base yourself and buying only the tabletop. For the bases you can use rubble, flagstone, cobblestones, brick. These materials fit perfectly into the interior of the garden and the dining group will look very original.
How to make a metal table for a summer house
If the house has welding machine and a person who knows how to operate it can make furniture out of metal. Such dinner groups are original and interesting. To extend the service life of such furniture, the metal must be protected from rust and aggressive influences. environment. The easiest way to do this is to use a special primer, which serves as a base for the paint.
Table for a summer house made of a different material
There are no limits for an inventive person with imagination. For country furniture, you can use any available material, from old tires to wooden pallets.
Original table ideas for the garden
From pallets
The loft style, which has been gaining popularity recently, encourages the use of atypical materials for the interior. For example, pallets. This convenient, environmentally friendly, and most importantly, cheap material is used to construct benches, tables, sofas, even beds. For furniture, it is better to take new pallets; you can choose the size - euro or Russian. In addition, the size of the pallets can be adjusted independently. To arrange the table you will need from one to three pallets, depending on the design. You can put glass or plywood on the lid. Before use, you need to carefully check the pallet for any unnecessary nails, then sand it. When the product is ready, it needs to be painted or varnished.
Outdoor table and benches made from pallets 
Outdoor table and cable reels 
Outdoor table and chairs made from old tires 
