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If you like fun, customized tabletops, Handmade is the way to go. Why settle for the same plain, boring table everybody has in their dining room when you can make it the centerpiece of your home? Maybe you’ve got old furniture that could use a facelift, or you need to update a table that was broken. In all of these cases, there are so many options available to create a one-of-a-kind tabletop you’ll love. Whether that includes learning how to laminate wood pieces together, stenciling, painting, staining or transferring images, or using more unique materials like fabric or epoxy, there is a Handmade tabletop option here for you!
25 Handmade Tabletop Designs
Learn how to make your own butcher block surface to use as a coffee table, end table, bench or dining table at By Brittany Goldwyn. Use your go-to stain to accentuate the grain or leave it raw. // By Brittany Goldwyn
A live edge tabletop is strong – in artistry… and price tag! So Hunted Interiors figured out a way to create their own! You’d never know that this table is actually a Handmade and the edges were created with a belt sander! It’s vivid and would make a statement in any room. // Hunted Interiors
You won’t believe what you can create with a bunch of free scraps. A strong scrap wood table, by Instructables user Wholman for starters! This Handmade is a bit time intensive, as the process for laminating wood can take many hours depending on the dimensions of your project, but the end result is nothing short of breathtaking. The natural wood grains, different colors and all the character from each piece of salvaged wood come together to make a show-stopping table. // Wholman on Instructables
Create a unique wooden inset in a herringbone design to easily make over any table. The best part is that you can use paint stir sticks, so it’s little to no cost at all! // Thistlewood Farms
Just because a table is missing its top is no reason to pass it by! This coffee table was missing its glass top, so Mindi replaced it with rustic painted pallet wood slats for a whole new look. // Mylove2create for Bekob
And this glass-top patio table was broken and left along the side of the road, but Nicole was undeterred and built and tiled a new tabletop. // Q-Schmitz on Bekob
Holy Craft came up with a genius solution for a scratched and worn dining table! If your table looks a little worse for wear, but you still plan on using it for messy situations like painting and crafting, you’ll love this wood plank tabletop cover. Slide it on for nice dinners and entertaining company, and tuck it away when your kids use play dough! // Holy Craft on Bekob
Here’s an industrial style side table that looks authentic and high end, but it’s actually made from an inexpensive, basic store-bought table. Learn a few tips and tricks to making a direct table like this look industrial chic. // Love, Create, Celebrate
Tiled tables are striking accent pieces and can add a lot of style to a room, but real vintage tile can be a bit cost prohibitive. In this walkthrough, you can learn how to paint a tabletop with faux aged blue glazed tile so you can add old world charm without breaking the bank. // Royal Design Studio
If you’ve fallen out of love with your table, like Handmade striking, look at her Handmade to see how straightforward it is go from ok to notable! For this one all you need is a stencil you love and a paint color that pops. In no time, you’ll have a stenciled table you can fall in love with all over again. // Handmade striking 
Look at the memorable masterpiece Domestic Imperfection made out of her plain Jane dining table! Using a stencil and white paint, you can create this design or similar, then tone it down and make it look slightly aged by staining the wood right over the top of the painted design! Very clever stenciled and stained table redo. // Domestic Imperfection
Here’s another example of a stenciled tabletop. Remarkably, this table was destined for the dump when Pretty Handy Girl pulled it from a dumpster. With a stencil, primer and paint, some distressing, glazing and sealing, she gave this beauty a second life – one in which it looks like it came directly from old world Scandinavia. // Pretty Handy Girl
And if you haven’t got a fancy stencil hanging around, you can still give your table a stencil-styled makeover, and it won’t take much. To make this fun herringbone table, Shark Tails took a boring side table and taped off a herringbone design then spray painted it gold! It adds a touch of mod glam that’s not overwhelming since it’s in a small dose. // Shark Tails
Gold looks great on this glass top table makeover, too! // Jackie Hernandez for Bekob
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No more boring tabletops! Start here and continue the pretty Handmade tabletop inspiration and tutorials with these 14 striking options.
Handmade Tabletop Inspirations and Tutorials
If you need more stencil inspiration, look at this solid pineapple table from bhg! This large graphic is an eye catching modern choice. You can get this look by cutting the pineapple pieces from adhesive shelf liner, placing them on the table as a reverse stencil and painting the pop of color over. It would be well fitted for an outdoor patio table! // Better Homes and Gardens
If you can’t find the well fitted stencil for your table, never fear. There’s a direct technique you can use to transfer an image onto your tabletop, just like this cute french country inspiration from 5023 Creations. // 5023 Creations
Christina’s Adventures shares how to transfer a large image onto a round tabletop using chalk with her vivid medallion tabletop walkthrough. // Christina’s Adventures
This fun geometric table design was created using only painters tape, craft paint and sealer! Oh, and a bit of math to make well fitted triangles, but don’t let that deter you from making this striking design! Nine Red applied the paint with fingers, then by wiping the excess off, they were still able to see the striking wood grain underneath! // Nine Red
This memorable hand-painted table was featured at an upcycle challenge at a home show in Toronto Canada and appeared on Reno and Decor. The designers, Leigh-Ann Allaire Perrault and Glen Coyle, created it to look like an adult coloring book page. With some white paint for the background and oil-based paint pens for the details, you could create a zentangle table much like hers for a unique dining room! // Leigh-Ann Allaire Perrault and Glen Coyle for Reno & Decor
Addison Meadows Lane shows how you can make your old, worn out card table look memorable with some fun PVC fabric! Buy a bit extra and you can recover the chairs to match. // Addison Meadows Lane
Also, you won’t believe how straightforward it is to makeover your tabletop with fabric and resin! Crafts Unleashed shares a great walkthrough that will make you want to whip out your go-to fabric and redo every table in your home. The hardest part is waiting days for the epoxy to cure! // Crafts Unleashed
Madigan Made shared a Handmade for an memorable glitter-top table that she made with glitter and epoxy. The results are glamorous and fun! You could customize the color with your very go-to glitter! // Madigan Made
If you’re looking for an notable way to impress guests at your outdoor parties this year, you’ve got to see what Mike Warren shared on Instructables. It’s a glow table. He uses glow powder and epoxy to create a wood filler that’s translucent while soaking up UV light all day long… and then it GLOWS IN THE DARK! The walkthrough makes it seem very doable, if a bit time consuming. It’s guaranteed to be the coolest table on anyone’s patio. Ever. // Mike Warren on Instructables
Concrete countertops are on trend, but if a kitchen remodel isn’t in your modest-cost, you can get the look with a concrete dining table! It’s a specialized skill and definitely takes time and patience, but you CAN Handmade it – as Uncookie Cutter shows. // Uncookie Cutter
If you like the look of a concrete table, but can’t commit to the time, effort and precision of creating an entire concrete slab (or perhaps you aren’t sure how to move a 500 pound tabletop into place!) you can get the same look with a faux finish. Don’t believe me? look at this faux concrete tabletop. She used featherfinish floor patch, and with some scraping, slathering and sanding gave her much loved table a much needed makeover! // The Crazy Craft Lady
If you like the high-end look of marble, but not the high-end price, you can Handmade that, and A striking Mess shows just how straightforward that is with this Handmade marble table makeover. You won’t believe me if I tell you, but let’s just say it involves paper and mod podge. And it looks memorable. // A striking Mess
Want to know what else has a faux marble finish? Contact paper! Here’s an solid Ikea method using contact paper for a marble tabletop finish on a nightstand – would you believe those solid copper legs are actually contact paper as well? It’s true! // Kristi Murphy
And if you’re confident with a paint brush, you can paint a faux carrara finish, like Little Green Notebook did to this memorable table. With some practice and tips, you can get the veining down, which is the trick to making your “marble” look authentic. Using resin makes the table clearly shiny and extra durable. This table speaks for itself, really. // Little Green Notebook
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page 1: 13 Handmade tabletops
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18+ straightforward Table Building Plans
