DIY Chair Table
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Channel: Home Made Simple · 2014 · Howto & Style
AMY: I’m Amy Devers from Home Made Simple and I’m going to show you how to turn a chair into a side table. KIM: Amy found this chair. AMY: Lonely and neglected down in the basement. KIM: Obviously the back is no good to us. So my idea is...if we take the back off we have the perfect little side table. PRISCILLA: That is cute. KIM: Right? PRISCILLA: That is cute. KIM: So that it’s not going to waste. We’re salvaging it. We’re giving it a totally new lease on life. PRISCILLA: I can’t wait to see. AMY: Well, you’re going to do. Not just see. PRISCILLA: I can’t wait to learn. KIM: Priscilla, I have a lot of stuff to do for you. So I’m going to leave you guys to it. Have fun. PRISCILLA: Ok. KIM: Alright. PRISCILLA: Thank you. AMY: Turning this chair into a side table is a piece of cake. We’re going to cut the top off with a jigsaw. There, one down one to go. After the tops cut off we’ll flip that over onto a piece of wood and trace out the outline to cut a new top for the table. Then we’ll cut a new top out with a jigsaw. Wow. Priscilla’s amazing. I know you’ve used one of these before. PRISCILLA: I have used a sander. AMY: Ok go to town lady. PRISCILLA: Ok. AMY: She knows what she’s doing, and she goes for it. Now it’s time to put them together. And the trick with glue is that you want to kind of make sure you get enough in there that you get a nice even bond. But not so much that you have a lot of squeeze-out to clean up. PRISCILLA: Oh ok. AMY: Now do you want to drop that into position? Nail it in. PRISCILLA: This is cool, Amy, I could see myself making another table like this on my own. AMY: Really? PRISCILLA: I could. And this is very stylish. The table is beautiful! AMY: Nice work!
