After many years, J has finally completed our new dining room table. It's a slight twist on a classic farmhouse table: all 15-degree angles, instead of right angles that basically doubled the quantity of effort needed to put it together. It's soooo much larger than our previous little Ikea table. It can fit 8 when needed (when will it be needed?), but we mostly keep it set with 6 chairs. The dining room occasionally doubles as a workspace in the social distancing era, so the place settings are a little off-balance. Need more workspaces!
For reference, here's the former dining room table, a $25 craigslist Ikea holdover from
the California days, looking puny in our tiny dining room:
The table has no hardware (no nails, screws, metal brackets, etc.), except for some bolts to secure the heavy tabletop to the even heavier table supports. All dowels and mortise and tenons.
He went with a darker stain, and left the dowels unstained, simply sealed as-is to show off some of the hardwork
2 comments:
That looks amazing - I'm impressed!
This is a such gorgeous table ... no wonder Dizzy likes to sit on it ;-)
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