I love Ana White, not only because she saves me money but what an amazing story. I used to be terrified of using tools and now I puff out when I am walking around my favorite Lowe's or Home Depot store picking up supplies and wood. I have built a couple of things using her plans and oh what fun. Seriously, if you haven't gotten tried it, go out to that garage now and start playing. Nothing cooler than building something with your hands and having your kids cheer you on.
I was planning on just buying a table from a store but found the Ana White "Clara" table and it had the look I wanted. It is a kids size table and just sized it up for a large end table which I wasn't able to find in the stores. Easy peasy! Well may not have been if I hadn't ponied up for the Kreg Jig, which helps to screw things together from the back and underneath. Didn't even have to use wood glue!! Table maaayybbe cost me $20 after using stock wood and fits my space. I needed my table to be 30" x 30" roughly so used a couple of 1x6 (really 1x5.5") and squished them together since wood doesn't come that large in 1 big piece. Thank you friend for loaning me your mitre saw with a laser. Can do with a circular saw too but mitre makes it so much easier.
Instructions:
1. Figure out how large your table need to be
2. Cut legs same length
3. Cut wood to go in between legs to support
4. Cut couple of pieces of top of table
5. Assemble with screws
6. Sand with 80 grit, then 120, then 220 so smooth and stains correctly
7. Stain. I used dark walnut
8. Protect with poly. I used semi gloss
Ana White table
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