How I Personally Designed Living Room Tables - By: Jamie Hanson

The tables descended to life quite by accident. My wife and I were browsing through a local hardwood supply store making a selection of wood for some now lose sight of project. We took our time to choose through and be crazy about the beautiful woods racked and strewn about the store. Hidden behind an rebellious stack of long planks my wife rolled out two irregular broad flat thick piece of horse chestnut. The approximately thirty inch strange slices had been cut just below the base of the tree as they had limp rough bark and tiny rootlets about the side. The wood was tight, grained, hard and creamy in color. The slabs were three inches thick consists of many punky (rotten) spots. These spots result in the price down to an affordable level. I had an experimental method in mind to steady the punky wood, seal the surface and provide a beautiful finish. A random orbit sander offered a smooth surface upon which to apply the finish. The solution worked out effectively and remains my secret.

The slabs were each fixed on a trestle leg base cut from one and one half inch popular wood stock. I selected milky popular as this planks can be pretty green in color. Each of the tables was giving two trestles, a matching stretcher and wedges in contrasting walnut. One of the slabs was sospecial that I couldn't imagine construction as is my normal path and so I had to make a full mock up in throwaway framing lumber. With bark removed, and rootlets safe, the tables each sit in a living room, possible keeping fashionable magazines. The headmost living room furniture table sold on eBay and was delivered to an MD in Cape Cod. The next place on its trestles in the living room of dear friends who work with stain glass and pottery.

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