alex grams
02-25-2008, 10:21 AM
My wife wanted a simple breakfast table that the chairs could slide under, so i obliged her.
It is all cherry, with a natural stain and a couple of coats of polyurethane.
This was going into some new territory for me on the patterning of the feet and especially the table skirt. I did bent laminate on the rounded corners, then fastened them to straight connecting pieces on the sides. Some lessons learned on it. I wanted to route a bead in the bottom of the skirt, but I had my vacuum press check valve lose its seal on one corner, so one piece didn't have good contact between a couple spots of the laminate, so I didn't want to route the bottom where there may have been a gap in the layers of laminate, so i just left it flat. Next time though!
It makes the space much larger now that the chairs fully slide under the table (the previous table had 4 legs that on the ends the chair legs didnt fit through, so they always stuck out).
We are going to replace the tile with a travertine and the walls with a stucco venetian style also eventually, so they will match better with the table color.
It is all cherry, with a natural stain and a couple of coats of polyurethane.
This was going into some new territory for me on the patterning of the feet and especially the table skirt. I did bent laminate on the rounded corners, then fastened them to straight connecting pieces on the sides. Some lessons learned on it. I wanted to route a bead in the bottom of the skirt, but I had my vacuum press check valve lose its seal on one corner, so one piece didn't have good contact between a couple spots of the laminate, so I didn't want to route the bottom where there may have been a gap in the layers of laminate, so i just left it flat. Next time though!
It makes the space much larger now that the chairs fully slide under the table (the previous table had 4 legs that on the ends the chair legs didnt fit through, so they always stuck out).
We are going to replace the tile with a travertine and the walls with a stucco venetian style also eventually, so they will match better with the table color.