How to Build a Console Table (No Nails Needed!)

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Lining Up 1x2 to Create 3 Inch Console Table Leg

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Impressed by at this time trending raffia-included furnishings, I’m demonstrating you how to build your very own Television set console table protected in wallpaper for $150!

**I partnered with Titebond for this task which makes me seriously fired up because…I utilised their original wood glue and ONLY their wood glue to keep my total table collectively! What?!**

The objective for my dwelling was a tall and broad table without any noticeable supports that broke up the clear lines. The in general proportions of my completed table are 70″ large and 35″ tall. So keep that in mind with the supplies and slash lists under!

What to Obtain

What to Minimize

1x2s:

  • (4) @ 32″
  • (7) @ 14-1/2″
  • (2) @ 70″

3/4″ plywood:

  • (4) 32″ prolonged x 16″ extensive
  • (2) 70″ extensive x 16″ wide

Building the Console Table Packing containers

Effectively we are generating 3 individual containers. 2 will be the legs and 1 will be the tabletop.

Start out with the 2 more compact containers (legs) to get your ft moist. Lay a 32″ piece of plywood down and insert your Titebond wood glue alongside the best aspect of all 4 edges. Then lay a 1×2 on its facet on top of the glue, making absolutely sure it’s flush with the edge of the plywood.

The 32″ items of 1×2 will go from edge to edge of the plywood while the 14.5″ pieces must in shape snuggly between.

Lining Up 1x2 to Create 3 Inch Console Table Leg

After you have the 1x2s lined up on the edges just so, run a bead of wooden glue on the leading of them.

Applying Titebond Wood Glue to Hold Table Leg Together

Carefully set one more 32″ piece of plywood on leading. Now your box leg is total!

First Leg Box Assembled for Console Table

Repeat for the other leg, using a couple clamps if vital to develop super restricted joints!

You will stick to the identical steps to create the tabletop, only you’ll incorporate an added 14.5″ 1×2 assist somewhere in the middle. This will assist keep the extended 1x2s from sinking in and add over-all balance to the desk.

Waiting is the Toughest Section

If you’ve at any time tried to pry wood apart that is been glued with Titebond, even for a couple minutes, you know it is in essence not possible to do well.

And which is why you really do not need any nails or screws to hold your desk alongside one another. Wood glue, when entirely dried and treated, is in fact stronger than fasteners! So mad but oh so true!

Permit your 3 packing containers dry and set up for at minimum 30 minutes just before relocating on to the following move.

Adding Legs to the Table Top rated

Assuming your flooring is amount, established your leg containers upright, close to 70″ apart. Implement sufficient amounts of wooden glue to the tippy top rated of your legs and gently established the tabletop in spot. Adjust the best so it is flush with the outside of your leg on one particular side in advance of modifying the other leg.

For a desk this big, it would be helpful to have a close friend or wife or husband hold the very good aspect in position though you manipulate the other aspect. But with a couple of back again-and-forths, you can deal with it yourself much too!

Adjusting Legs with Speed Square as Gauge

I employed a speed square to make sure the legs had been at 90-diploma angles. Not a bad tool to have in your arsenal if you never have a single presently!

When you’re glad with your leg circumstance, enable it sit for about 30 minutes prior to you start covering almost everything in wallpaper!

Adhering Wallpaper to the Console Table

I enjoy the texture of a raffia or light-weight-coloured wood table. And soon after a friend shared an cheap peel-and-adhere wallpaper she applied that seemed like faux grasscloth, I realized I could use that to make the texture I wanted for this piece of furnishings.

I also preferred the desk to glance like a person slab of wood. To make that outcome with the wallpaper, I started at the base of a single leg, took it up and in excess of the top, and then down the other leg with out any cuts or seams. I also lined it up with the back again edge of the desk so it could fold and go down the entrance edge without any seams.

Ideally, the movie greater illustrates how I dealt with the corners, so look at it higher than! I experienced the paper that arrived from the tabletop under the paper from the legs. Then I scored on the paper alone the 45-diploma angle from the within corner to the exterior corner of the wooden structure. I slice any surplus paper from the leading and then trapped it down. Future, I slice the layer of paper coming from the legs alongside the line I just scored. So when anything was laid flat and trapped down superior, it appears to be like like my legs and tabletop were mitered together.

Plywood and 1x2s Covered in Wallpaper

Originally I prepared to meticulously trim the extra at the end of the front edge, but given that it folded so nicely without having any bubbling, I folded the inch or so excess and caught it to the within of the table.

And that received coated up up coming with a different operate of wallpaper. I purchased sufficient wallpaper (2 rolls) to include the inside of the legs and the underside of the tabletop. And considering that I was considerably less involved on the underside about observing seams, I coated them independently and finished up not masking the underside of the tabletop itself. You seriously just can’t see it through daily use and it saved me $27 by not opening the second roll.🤷‍♀️

Details of Grasscloth Wallpaper Used on Console Table

Oh and for the legs, the within wallpaper was flush with the entrance edge so the extra was just folded around and stuck onto the back again of the legs. Yes, it appears unfinished from the bottom. BUT WHO CARES?!

Vibrant Coastal Living Room with Frame TV

The only location I needed to trim wallpaper was at the base of the legs. I propped up 1 leg at a time with a scrap piece of 1×2 so I could trim it as exactly as possible. I didn’t want any sliver of wooden demonstrating and offering absent my table’s tricks!

About an hour or so immediately after finishing the desk, there was however a minimal wobble to it if you shifted it from aspect to facet. But after leaving it alone overnight, the wiggle was absent and this table was durable, steady and prepared to transfer to its new home!

DIY Raffia Grasscloth Wrapped Large Console Parsons Table

I ordered our poufs from Residence Depot* to provide as decoration AND additional seating. They are like sophisticated beanbag chairs and the children have currently pulled them out to sit and roll around numerous occasions!

Modern Living Room Raffia Wrapped Skinny Table

The wallpaper at the rear of the Television set and console was not too long ago hung to make an accent wall. I like it by itself but I’m nonetheless trying to figure out if I like the room as a whole with the wallpaper in it.🤔

TV Console Table with Green and Gold Ginkgo Wallpaper

But we do appreciate the sleekness of our Frame Television*! It was a splurge we taken care of ourselves to when our prior house bought for way over the inquiring price tag. Now I’m pondering I may possibly brush some gold paint on the body to match other gold frames in the room. The assignments and tips hardly ever prevent about listed here! Ha!

DIY Console Table Build Covered in Wallpaper

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