When the paint is dry, lightly sand the edges of your coffee table to reveal those layers of paint or wood. The black chalk paint is followed by a coat (or 2) of red chalk paint. This is black chalk paint just painted on the edges. This may look a little weird, but this is the start of my red coffee table. I used lots of wood glue and screwed the corner pieces into the coffee table skirt and into the legs. Screw in the wood screws.įor the legs, I cut pieces of scrap wood with mitered ends just long enough to hold the legs tightly in their corners. Make sure your screw is long enough that it goes into the top but not so long that it goes thru the top.Īpply a liberal amount of wood glue to attach the skirt to the upcycled door. I’ve predrilled a 1/4″ hole wherever I want the screws so the head will be countersunk. I held the corners together with finish nails from a nail gun while the glue dried. I mitered the ends of the skirt with 45° cuts. You may notice that there is a lip on these legs, that’s what determined how wide my skirt would be. The skirt of the coffee table was made from wood cut off of the sides and the ends of the larger door panel. When the glue from these 2 patches was dry, I filled any remaining gaps with wood putty, let dry and sand. This too was glued into place and let dry. Glue, clamp and let dry.Īnother piece of scrap wood fills in where the old lock set would have fit. I just needed to do a few patches, this slim piece of wood is glued into place to cover where the hinge would have sat. The left side of the door, the shorter panel, will be my table top. The right side of this door, the longer panel, was the basis for last week’s project, a framed menu board. You can tell whether your door is solid because of the weight.

I’m stressing vintage door because they are more likely to be made of solid wood, not the cardboard filler more modern doors are created from. You can see that coffee table, can’t you? Those legs were going to pair very nicely with this vintage door. The legs were super loose and no tools were necessary to remove the bolts. And now Keith is once again my favorite son. They just happened to still be there on the next doggy walk. So imagine my surprise when he showed up with the little stool the following week. The legs didn’t excite me, I already have too many chairs so I’ll leave them for someone else, but what are those little legs all the way in the back? I always need legs and legs are expensive.īy the time I responded to his text and put in my order/request he was already home from his walk.

This was the picture he sent me a couple of weeks ago, he wanted to know if I was interested in some table legs or a pair of chairs. Keith passes by this treasure trove often on his daily doggy walks. It’s all ready for bulk pickup or a local scavenger, whoever gets there first. My oldest son, Keith, lives fairly close to an apartment complex where they have a great unwanted furniture pile.

Vintage coffee tables