Make Table Top From Hardwood Flooring

So i thought i should use some weather resistant wood beyond cedar.

Make table top from hardwood flooring.

This project works best if the coffee table is sturdy enough to hold the heavy oak flooring. It s 4ft x 6ft. However we have made a few countertops out of wood flooring instead with great results. That is the top is covered but rain splashes in at times.

I ve been keeping my eye out for a table base with either a missing top or one in not so great condition. When you want to make a pine tabletop from narrow planks you usually glue the planks together in a procedure called lamination. I want to make a smallish table kitchen cart that will go into the semi covered patio. I used 3 1 4 red oak unfinished flooring for the center and outer row and 2 1 4 unfinished maple for the insert.

Maybe teak or cumaru or acacia trouble is that type of wood is not easy to find or cheap. So when i spotted a piece of furniture. I told you about this table over a year ago in my post recent finds june 18 2012. That was the price of the flooring and we had the rest of the materials on hand but if we didn t the total cost would have still only been about 60.

But i did find. How to easily attach pine boards to make a tabletop. Making a countertop was slightly more work but the total cost was only 11. I love the idea of using hardwood flooring as table tops.

Add hardwood flooring as a tabletop to a coffee table that is missing it s original table top. Select enough hardwood flooring boards so that the accumulated width of them together exceed the width and length of the desired table top by at least 2 inches. I used hardwood flooring to make a dining table top. It replaces the 3ft x5ft glass top i had before that was scratched and out dated.

Attach the boards to the sides of the tabletop using 2 finish nails. Make sure the frame is the correct height so that the flooring boards will be flush to the top edge of the frame.