The coffee table is a product that is able to give any interior completeness, status and beauty. It is not the subject matter of necessity, but without it the situation seems poor and faceless.

Varieties of tables for the living room

1. The most commonly found is the coffee table. It has the appearance of a small dining table and is intended for a small company after meals to go to the living room for tea drinking.

2. If desired, it is possible to purchase a set of several tables of various sizes. They are inserted alone in another, and if necessary, declined and even separated from each other.

3. The coffee table often has a shelf, because Its main purpose is the storage of newspapers, magazines and other literature, which can be hidden sitting in the living room. But no one rebs, as in the previous version, put coffee cups on this table, vases with candy and ashtray and enjoy communication.

4. Such a kind, as the showcase table has more decorative function. The design of this item provides for the presence of a niche coated with glass, in which decor objects, collectible things and much more are placed.

5. There is also such a concept as a tea table, but it does not differ from the coffee and drinking and drinking any drink depending on the desire and mood.

Coffee tables can be different in shape. You should choose it, pushing away from the size and design of the room. For example, a round coffee table is suitable for a small room, because It has streamlined corners. Square will take more space, but on its surface it is possible to place more objects, oval well installed along the wall or sofa.

By manufacturing material, coffee tables are also different, for example:

• wooden;
• glass;
• stone;
• metal;
• plastic et al.

But the most common are wooden and glass. This is explained by the fact that these materials have a relatively low cost and look stylish and expensive. A glass coffee table is very well combined with a high-tech style, and a wooden - is universal and suitable for most interiors.

Coffee or tea table do it yourself

Coffee table with your own hands is not difficult to make. In this case, he will be in a single copy, and the owner will be able to proudly demonstrate it to his guests. And if you still approach the process with a fantasy, then most likely it will get a very beautiful author who carrying a very special energy.

It is easily convenient to make a coffee table made of wood. This will require simple tools and inexpensive materials:

• marker or pencil, roulette;
• 12 meters of bar 90x35 mm;
• glue on wood;
• chisel;
• hacksaw;
• clamps;
• grinder or sandpaper rough and soft;
• varnish.

Next, you can go in two ways:

• pay a small amount of money in the joiner's workshop so that they make a cutting material on the desired size;
• save and cut items yourself using the jigsaw.

Moreover, selecting the last option, do not forget about the allowances required for final processing and fitting parts.

Work on the creation of the table is carried out in such a sequence:

1. Make a table design in a special program or draw manually, sizzy.
2. Take a cutting tool, such as hacksaw or electrolovka, and cut the parts of the required size for the table top and legs.
3. According to the project, make a groove table top in two parts to which legs will be inserted. Act with the help of a hacksaw and a chisel.
4. Position all the worktop items on the desktop so that those with the grooves are second from the edges.
5. Please note how tight bars are joined. Remove the sandpaper. Look at how easy the legs are included in the grooves and how well they hold in them.
6. Docus all parts with each other, having previously finished them with glue, and clamp the clamps. It will be possible to remove them only after the glue is dry.
7. Carefully polish and polish the product after drying.
8. Cover the table with varnish in three layers.

Creative approach to the manufacture of a coffee table

A table of a very unusual species will be from unnecessary boxes from under the wines. And it is very simple to make it, for this you need to make them up with each other and attach small furniture wheels. Sequencing:

1. Create a table frame. It plays the role of an extra support and gives the rigidity of the entire design. To do this, purchase a bar or a plate with a cross section of 4x10 cm. Frame make a square of four segments of the bar in the form of a square, and in the middle it will fill it up.

2. The size of the frame structure should be equal to the external dimensions of the manufactured table. Fastening parts with a joinery of joinery, corners and screws.

3. Install the boxes so that they formed a conceived table. Fix them in this position using fasteners. For the reliability of the attachment places there should be four on each drawer: two in the side wall and one at the top and bottom.

4. Now put the design to the previously manufactured frame and secure the screws.

5. Attach small wheels with which the table will easily move around the room.

6. As for painting, each decides itself, pushing away from the color range and the style of the interior, as well as from their own taste preferences. If they match the warm, natural color of the tree, then simply cover the finished product with a furniture varnish. If you need to give the table any tone, while retaining the natural pattern of the tree, the vessel comes to the aid. Treat the surface with it, polish after drying, and then open lacquer. If the color needs to be changed dramatically, buy a paint on a tree, squeeze it into the desired color, paint the table.

Also for the manufacture of a coffee table can be used by euro pallets. Then it will work very unusual, but it is only suitable for a certain style.

1. First of all, the pallet should be fine, smoothing the irregularities and jar.

2. Now work with the color. Options for staining are described above. Optionally, you can apply an artistic painting. Before proceeding with this item, carefully degrease the entire surface of the pallet.

3. When the coating dry, attach the wheels to it and start exploiting. Inside place plates, magazines, newspapers or albums with memorable photos.

4. For those who want in the design of the table to go further, there is an option to equip it with a showcase, in which collection things will be placed, a sand-shell decor or anything else.

5. For this purpose, before the finished product, the wheels will be screwed, from the bottom side, screw the plywood part equal to it in size and form. It will have to be treated with the same coating that was painted the table.

6. After that, the bottom of the pallet is attached or just put the elements of the decor that you like. They will be clearly seen through the slots of the countertops.

7. In addition, the pallet can be covered with a leaf of glass of the same size, securing it with suction cups or in another way.

Coffee tables, photos of which are presented in the article are the most simple and cheap, while look very stylish and beautiful.