Reclaimed Wood Coffee Table

There are two blogs that I follow religiously. If they left the blogosphere, I would wander around uselessly. Seriously.

One of them is Knock Off Wood.

Ana makes woodworking plans.

I have a lot of woodworking books, but a lot of the plans are so complicated to follow (even if it's a simple plan, most plans are just poorly written!)

Ana turns name brand furniture into plans that are super easy to follow!

I seriously needed a new coffee table. I refinished this one, because I liked the storage. I wasn't happy with the style. This is something that I would find at my grandma's house.

Anyways, after perusing Ana's site for a while, I came upon a plan for a coffee table. Her version was rectangular, and I needed a large square one. So I modified her base to make a 3'x3' coffee table.

I had ALMOST all the wood already. I dove into my scrap wood pile. I did, however, need 1 8' 2x2 and 1 more 8' 1x4.

I made this:

Instead of buying more 1x4's for the top, I salvaged a neighbor's old broken fence panel that was destined for the dump. Most of the boards were beyond repair, but all I needed was half of each board on only half the panel to be in decent shape.

I cut them to size, nailed them on, stained it with a dark walnut stain, and put 3 coats of poly on the top.

See the wood knots on the legs? I really love the imperfections on the wood. I'm actually going to be distressing the white base soon to accent the imperfections.

I love it!

Sorry for the terrible picture. I was too excited to share this project to clean my living room.

Total Project Cost: $3.74 for the wood that I didn't already have.

This is the first step to a major overhaul of my living room.

I'm not telling what the end will look like. It won't be done until a year from now.

We are spending our taxes on a much needed fence. Next year our taxes will go to renovating this room.