In order to provide comfortable living conditions on a suburban area, you need many different household items. Some of them can be moved here from a city apartment, but some are easier to craft locally. Do-it-yourself table can be made for anyone who doesn’t have these hands growing from a hip belt. A table in the country is a matter of prime necessity, it is difficult to do without it. Moreover, this work can be turned into a pleasure.
So, we build a table for a summer house with our own hands
For work, we need dry softwood lumber. It is cheaper and easier to handle with manual carpentry tools. Lumber must undergo primary processing with a circular saw, jointer and planer. To design a table at home, all boards should be sized to thickness. When constructing a table for a summer residence with your own hands, you should have an idea of what should turn out in the end. You should first familiarize yourself with the various designs of wooden garden furniture. They are presented in abundance both in special literature and simply around us (among our neighbors in the village).
Someone else's experience can be very valuable, because it will help to avoid common mistakes. Usually garden tables are divided into two types - those that stand in one place, and those that allow them to be moved as needed. A stationary table can be made on supports dug into the ground - metal or hardwood (such as larch). And in their design, the tables are also of two types - on a cross-shaped support and on four legs with collet joints.
The most rational design should be chosen based on their aesthetic and practical priorities. And it would be nice to sketch the future product in the form of a sketch before you build a table for the cottage with your own hands. It is not necessary to elaborate drawings in detail, it is enough to delve into only the general dimensions and principles of connecting parts. This will greatly facilitate future work.
The height of the table when assembled usually ranges from 70 to 75 centimeters. And the dimensions of the countertops should be selected based on the calculation of the number of people who will be sitting at the future table. In order for a person to feel comfortable at the table, he must have at least 60 centimeters of width. The cross-shaped design of the table support allows you to place more people behind it.
Upon completion of work
After we made a table for a summer house, it would be nice to think about how to cover it. This is especially true if it is not intended to stand under a canopy of the veranda, but in the open. Our product is best protected from the effects of atmospheric precipitation by oil yacht varnish. Acrylic based varnish behaves well. Nitrolac is not suitable due to its fragility. Before varnishing, wood can be treated with stain or antiseptic.
Eventually
In addition to the table, we also gained valuable experience. It should be developed by constructing various furniture for the garden with your own hands, photos and detailed drawings of which can be easily found on a variety of different resources.