How I Personally Designed Living Room Tables
The tables descended to life quite by accident. My wife and I were flipping through a local hardwood supply store making a selection of wood for some now forgotten project. We spent our time to choose through and admire adore the glamorous woods racked and strewn about the store. Hidden behind an rebellious stack of long planks my wife rolled out two very special broad flat thick piece of horse chestnut. The about thirty inch abnormal slices had been cut just below the base of the tree as they had limp rough bark and tiny rootlets about the border. The wood was tight, grained, strong and creamy in color. The slabs were three inches thick consists of a number of punky (rotten) spots. These spots causing the price reduce to an affordable level. I had a laboratory solution in mind to stabilize the punky wood, join the surface and provide a nice finish. A random orbit sander provided a smooth surface upon which to apply the finish. The method worked out beautifully and remains my secret.
The slabs were each mounted on a trestle leg base cut from one and one half inch popular wood stock. I selected creamy popular as this planks can be pretty green in color. Every tables was provided two trestles, a matching stretcher and wedges in contrasting walnut. One of the slabs was soirregular that I couldn’t visualize construction as is my usual path and so I had to make a full mock up in throwaway framing lumber. With bark taken out, and rootlets protected, the tables each sit in a living room, may be holding fashionable magazines. The first living room furniture table sold on eBay and was dispatched to an MD in Cape Cod. The second resides on its trestles in the living room of dear friends who work with stain glass and pottery.
Writer has extensive experience and specializes in living room furniture.
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