DIY Pine wood table

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I have been wanting this kind of wood table for at least a year. I was dreaming about owning a piece of wood furniture in order to make my little cozy place a bit more welcoming.

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As I was visiting the furniture shops I felt a big disappointment as the majority of the pieces I was looking at lacked functionality and a nature’s vibe.

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I believe that it is ideal to make the best of any space that we use. I reckon that in the future pieces of furniture will have to have multiple uses and functionality and to fill in the space in a very organic way. I see no point in having a piece of furniture which looks beautiful but occupies a lot of space without making the best out of it. I also believe that as population grows and the increase in demand for homes will put some pressure on the people we will see a change in design tendencies and that , slowly, humans will realize that in order to make their life easy they have to own multi-purpose pieces that leave their home with as much space as possible while also being able to be used in various scenarios.

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I decided that I will build my own wood table out of pine wood. This is my first big project in carpentry and I admit that doing all of this with only a hand saw was demanding. At the end of the project I felt soreness in some muscles I never knew I had. Nevertheless the feeling that I had after finishing is priceless: I can feel closer to nature while I eat or work at this table. I see the wood. I smell it.

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I know that this is somehow alive as I have put my soul into it. I can nurture it with linseed oil and pine essential oil. I can always modify it and put another coat of colour. This can be moved around as I have put wheels on it and is incorporated in the bench on which I am sitting.

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The hardest part was to put it all together. As I did this in my small home I used the books from my beloved library as support for the wood. Pretty creative, right? It is hard to work in wood but very satisfying. I felt like a little creator and I had the vibe that somehow I must have been doing this maybe in a past life. I loved the feeling of seing a product coming out of my hands slowly.

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I wanted to give it a nordic vibe so I used a matte white eco finish to paint some of the table in white.

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As you can see I thought of it all: I have put some support in order to be able to put the cutlery right on the top of the table and have them still while moving the table. I have put some shelves in order to have a place for napkins and other kitchen paraphernalia. I wanted this table to give me a comfortable experience while eating so I thought about having a support place for my feet where I could put a coloured piece of cotton or wool to keep my feet warm.

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I am proud to say that this table is unique in the entire world. No one has a table like this. The feeling of owning a custom piece of wood art gives me joy and a sense of gratitude for the huge amount of talent that God has placed in my mind.

I look at it and sometimes I can’t believe I did this.

If you are going to do this kind of project indoors I give you a warning: it will get messy and dusty. But the final prize is well worth the mess.

P.S. I used this table also for making my bodypaintings. I love having so much space and to be able to have one furniture item that I can use for multiple activities

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It is really hard to find a quality piece of wood in stores, you are right about that! I'm not a carpenter either, but I was doing some small projects with wood in the past, creating mining rigs a few days ago, or a solar heater...
The result wasn't professional, but as you said, it was my "masterpiece" and that gives even more value! 🙂

You did a great job with your unique, multi-purpose table!! Thanks for sharing!


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I have done my math and with the wood that I have bought I managed to make 2 DIY pieces (I will post the second one in a future post) and we can't compare store furniture with wood furniture. So in this way I have a superior piece customized for my needs.

I get what you say about the project being "your masterpiece". It is so satisfying to have something done by you.

I really loved this and funny enough I started to google carpentry classes but found very few resources in this field in my town. It is worth having skills in this field, imagine you could do the entire furniture in your house and not having to pay others to do it for you.

Thank you for stopping by and appreciating my first piece of customized functional piece of wood art!

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I really loved this and funny enough I started to google carpentry classes but found very few resources in this field in my town. It is worth having skills in this field, imagine you could do the entire furniture in your house and not having to pay others to do it for you.

Today's "experts" are overvalued... I believe that those who are called carpenters (these days), have nothing to do with those 50-100 years ago... But, I do get you... to take a piece of wood and make something useful for you is another level!

Experimenting and practicing will make you learn the skill! Go for it!

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Thanks a whole lot for the encouragements, I have found a new cool thing I can become good at😍

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Now look at that! You are not just good at painting, but now you are a carpenter as well, !LOL
A real professional job completed here.
Congratulations and well done.

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Hahaha yes I am a woman with many talents! I am sure that I will discover even more, who knows what else I can be good at? I was surprised myself and I admit that I felt a sense of joy after finishing something which is mostly done by men.

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Well Lady Mary of the many talents, now you can certainly feel proud of yourself. If I was still in the construction industry, I would have employed you as a carpenter. !LOL

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Thank you! You would have hired me than I would have become so good that we would have became business partners and after that own a company where our wood furniture would travel the entire world hahaha

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Of course, I would have hired you and our creations would have kept the world spell bound. I often long back to my younger days, but then time took it all away from me and closed that chapter of my life.
Not that I mind as a new chapter of charity work was opened, and now even after Papillon's 23rd year, I still enjoy the work every day.

!PIZZA and !LUV

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You have gained wisdom and it is wise to choose family time over anything as you can always get more money but you can never recuperate lost time.

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