Scrap wood table

A little table I made out of some scraps. Most of the table is made out of a set of drawers that came from a counter unit that I found at the dump, though the legs are made out of old deck railing.

It was a pretty quick and dirty project. The table top is made out of the front pieces of 4 drawers that just needed a bit of planning along the sides to they would sit flush. Then, after sanding off the old finish and smoothing them out, I gave it a Gunstock stain and finished with my homemade beeswax and mineral oil sealer. the table “skirt” is actually a whole drawer, minus the front piece and the bottom, so that ended up being my template from which all the other dimensions were based since I decided not to take it apart. The shelf and support pieces were made from another drawer which, once I cut off the edges that connected them, were already the perfect length, having the exact same dimensions as the top “skirt”. the only pieces of wood I actually needed to measure were the legs.

I decided to paint most of it because the legs were a different kind of wood and the other pieces were plywood, so the stain would not have looked even. but I stained the top because I liked the look of those drawer front’s, which must have been from a pretty old counter unit as they looked quite rough, but once I sanded them down I liked the rustic look.

Plus I like the look of the 2 different colours.

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