Completed Project : DIY Coffee Table

If you have read our blog post about our DIY Coffee Table which we made from scratch, you will know that we have finished this project.  If you have not, you can read about it here.

So, after two months of finishing this project, we finally put the coffee table where it belongs! We managed in getting around to doing up our patio area.  Just in time for Christmas.

We are loving this cozy little spot and enjoying it too.

Let us know what you think, or what we could have done differently.  All ideas are most welcome.

DIY Coffee Table

This is another completed DIY project that we did, a coffee table.  It is a mixture of wood and metal. We think the wood is from a mahogany family.  Hubby and a neighbor found the tree which was chopped down by the local municipal council by the road side.  Apparently someone has slice the tree already but was not able to transport it.

This project took about only two weeks to complete.  Here are some pictures on the chronicles of the coffee table.

This is where the wood was found.

The wood was a little too thick for a coffee table.

Our neighbour helped us to slice the wood
with his chainsaw. 

The wood is in the process of being sliced.

Done! Sliced!

A close-up of the wood slice.

Hubby used a sander to smoothen the wood.

Getting the wood ready to be treated.

The wood has been treated so that no bugs
will attack the wood in the future.

We used metal for the coffee table legs.
We did not use wood as we did not
want to take the beauty away from
the coffee table top.

Legs from the other side of the coffee table.

Close up of the wood texture. Beautiful!

Bracket being fixed onto the metal leg.
Mini shelf will be fixed later.