I don't need the top so I don't want to buy a complete coffee table to assemble, I just want to make the frame and the legs. Nothing too crazy. Any suggestions? The material doesn't really matter either.
2007-07-23 14:13:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Get a bunch of sticks and then bundle them together with electrical zip ties. Then saw off the split ends. Then take 4 old work boots, fill them with cement and stick the end of the bundles into it. Let dry. Then you should have 4 standing bundles of sticks that you can use as the frame, with the boots as the bottom. If you are really feeling frisky you could even wrap the sticks in something that resembles human flesh, and it would look like 4 legs sticking up and holding the table.
2007-07-23 21:26:52 · answer #1 · answered by Jadochop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I dont know the style of your house, here are some ideas, but i dont know whether it will match the atmosphere of your house.
*I read somewhere, somebody wanted to chop a real2 big tree, you can use the right bottom part.
*You can go to the nursery, or wherever people sell clay pots, put 4 tallish pots as legs and set a thick glass top on top of it.
* Or buy 1 big round clay pot and put round thick glass on top.
* Go to auction places, if you're lucky you can find good ones there cheap.
Once, when I moved town, sold an ebony furniture, and was really surprised how cheap it was sold, I wish I never did it.
*Go to a lumber yard, get 4 pieces rounded trunk , pine is not bad, say oregon pine.
*wicker
*mine is really simple but very good material. Top 9cm thick rectangular hard wood(it's ebony but you can choose any hard wood or old wood), legs same wood, no frame; Top just sit on legs. You can screw it if legs are small. Its quite nice
and no body can lift it,
*4 Thailand's elephants as legs (ceramic)
*a piece of sandstone, glass top wider than the bottom
*4 pieces of hardboard make like a box w/o bottom, top sit on top. You can laminate the hardboard .
I think its plenty, I can go on and on
Good luck
2007-07-23 22:41:35 · answer #2 · answered by bill s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about getting some reclaimed railway sleepers, chopping them so they are a square block for the legs. I can't really comment on the frame as I don't know what material you have for the top and what cutting equiptment you can get your hands on....But I would recommend to keep it simple, maybe (if it's wood) have a frameless top..
2007-07-24 04:01:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would hit the cheap used furniture places, salvation army and other thrift stores -- most coffees tables that are used the tops are scared up and bad, but since you only want the foundation you might luck out and why just the perfect match.. insure you take a tape measure with you when you go shopping to insure the bottom will be big enough. good hunting
2007-07-23 21:22:32 · answer #4 · answered by mister ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can make it out of anything you desire or fits your taste. The opportunity is endless. I made a table base out of glass blocks I grouted together and added a glass top. It was beautiful. Have fun and be creative.
2007-07-23 21:58:52 · answer #5 · answered by dawnb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An old door, or picture frame (put glass, mirror, or another piece of cool wood inside.
2007-07-23 21:23:56 · answer #6 · answered by zz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legs or arms of a mannequin (a shop window dummy that is, not Kate Moss'; they are too thin).
Good luck!
2007-07-23 21:22:12 · answer #7 · answered by rat4cat_2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4 bricks
2007-07-23 21:18:04 · answer #8 · answered by k_gengis 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
how about wrought iron? you can buy stock at a local welding store.
Bamboo is now hot, and environmentally friendly.
2007-07-23 21:23:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ham.
2007-07-24 02:50:17 · answer #10 · answered by Doona 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋