Xylophone Coffee Table By Nancy

home-talk (34)in #life • 7 years ago (edited)

"xylophone coffee table"

This was super fun, shoddy, and simple to make, and includes a ton of shading and caprice to your space; all while keeping a moderate mid-century vibe. The following are only a couple of photographs.

2 pine wood sheets measure 1x6x8 (I got mine at Home Depot)*Note: you will require them cut. At Home Depot they cut them for you for nothing. The sizes to cut them are: 19″, 20″, 21″, 22″, 23″, 24″, 25″, 26″ (making 8 pieces add up to between the two sheets)

I utilized Valspar analyzer bottles from Lowes for $3 each. I just utilized 5 hues, blending 3 of them with some art paint to make darker shades and spare cash.

Get your furring strips (which ought to have been chopped down into two sizes of 42″ each) Place the strips over your sheets, adjusting it around 3 crawls in from the edges of the littlest board.

Once the loads up are completely dry, line up your loads up look down on the floor, leaving a little hole between each load up. Start screwing the strips to each board. I did this without anyone else, yet you may enroll a companion to enable hold down the sheets while you to do this so they don't move simultaneously.

Appending the legs is next. This progression may fluctuate contingent upon what sort of legs you purchased. I happened to have a little old end table I wasn't utilizing, so I quite recently stole the legs off of it. It was quite simple, since it accompanied metal plates to append to the table at that point tighten the legs. NOTE: Legs are truly costly to buy new. In case you're on a financial plan, check thrift stores for old end tables you can take the legs off of.

Get the split wood balls you obtained from the specialty store. In the event that you purchased 3 sacks, you'll have 18 catches… however you'll just utilize 16; one for each finish of each board on your table.

Making the hammers. These don't generally do anything with the exception of lift that charming level to 100. I simply utilize them as stylistic layout over the table.Begin with your dowel, and cut it down the middle – making two sizes of 18″ each. Take two dowel tops and paint them in your favored shading. Append them to the finish of each stay with wood stick.