HANDMADE FARMHOUSE TABLE

So, my wife asked me to make a Dining Table. We have a small kitchen with no dining room, and we were wanting a rectangular dining table to fit our kitchen space. We shopped around, but we couldn’t find the right table length. A nice dining table for what we wanted had an average price of around $500. I have made a lot of furniture over the years, but never made a dining table. It took me a week to make this table. One Saturday, two Sundays and a few week nights. I used three 11.5” wide pine boards, a couple 4” wide pine boards, a 2” x 4” board for braces, four table legs, some metal brackets, wood stain, sand paper, clear coat spray, cabinet screws, and a half a box of floor laminate planks. Total cost for supplies was around $120. I bought all my supplies at my local Home Depot Store. My wife did a great job staining the whole table before I applied the laminate for the table top. I told my wife we will be eating off the floor from now on since the table top is made with laminate floor planks :). She is very happy with how it came out. I like the end result as well. It looks like a store bought table. Anyone can make something like this with simple hand tools. This table now custom fits our kitchen space, and looks beautiful. Like in painting, the wood canvas is part of the art! Now I can get back to some painting.