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Folding Dining Table

12/28/2014

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Folding Dining Table
Our house doesn’t have a dedicated dining room- or even a breakfast room- and since we love to entertain this has been a bit of a problem. We have a good sized sectional so I wanted to be able to use that for seating like a banquette, but we have a large, heavy coffee table that isn’t practical to move regularly. Finally we settled on making a folding dining table that could sit over the coffee table. Here’s how we made it:

Materials

  • Sturdy Square folding table
  • ¾” thick ply wood, pre-cut to 4’x6’
  • Drill
  • Saw
  • Matching veneer edging
  • Stain
  • Spray Polyurethane

Steps

  • Start with a sturdy folding table with a metal or wood frame and a wooden top (we got ours from Target). We had to use the old school square kind (like the card table your grandmother has!). This was a requirement because we needed the legs to sit on the sides of the coffee table and not the Y bar that the rectangular tables use.
Folding Dining Table
  • Standard dining chairs are taller than a sofa so sit on your sofa and measure from the floor to your ideal table height. Save the rubber feet from the metal legs and then cut the legs to give you the right table height. Reattach the feet on the cut legs.
  • Cut the corners off the plywood tabletop (this is so people can move around the table easier since they are sitting on a sofa) and sand all the edges down, rounding the points.
  • With the bottom of the plywood up, measure and place the folding table in the center of the plywood. Then use multiple the screws to firmly attach the folding table to the new plywood table top.

  • Attach veneer edging and stain wood desired color and complete with spray on Polyurethane

It is now complete! If you are in a loft you could also attach mounting toward the top of the plywood and hang it on the wall as is or get creative and paint it to use as art!

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