The steps below follow the order of the work for this workshop project.
striking Farmhouse Dining Table by ShelbyHey everyone! It’s Shelby from over at honeysuckle. I am so honored to be guest posting here today! I am new to blogging this year and was clearly flattered to be asked to share a project on a big, fabulous blog like Bekob! Thanks, Cassity!
Blogging has been a fun, creative outlet for me and a great motivation to start checking off projects from my endless ‘to-make’ list! Over at honeysuckle, you’ll find a place where I express my sense of design, share my adventures in thrifting, spotlight my handmade and craft projects, pass along decor inspiration, try new recipes, and document all things lovely. I hope you’ll come on over and say hi! The project I’m going to share with you today is our homemade farmhouse table. This table was born out of frustration of looking for over 9 months for an 8-10 person dining table without a $500+ price tag! I scoured craigslist, made frequent trips to goodwill and other various thrift stores, and even looked at furniture store sales. But with no luck and an ever-growing frustration, my husband decided to try his hand at building us one. Sidenote: this was one of his first-ever building projects, so this can be (and has been) accomplished by beginners in wood-working. What started as a pile of wood… …ended up as a vivid farmhouse-style table. A bit about our process: we found basic plans for building a similar table on handmade-extraordinaire, Ana White’s website, but we changed the style and dimensions to fit what we had in mind. We made our way to Lowe’s to purchase all the materials, and then began our table-building adventure! It was a lot of measuring, drilling and cutting, assembling, arguing over dimensions, planing and sanding (to create that rustic, this-has-been-in-the-family-for-six-generations look we were going for), staining, painting, and then admiring our finished product. We also used a metal stamping kit to brand our new table that we were oh-so-proud of completing. When it was all said and done, we completed the project in about a week and the grand total was a little under $100. It’s memorable what a little frustration, willpower to save money, and hard work will get you! We continue to try our hands at handmade projects and are always finding inexpensive and thrifty ways to decorate our home, so I’d love it if you stopped over to see me at honeysuckle! Thanks again for allowing me to guest post, Cassity! You’re the best!
