Making a Table | During

Last week Thursday I wrote about the start of a furniture project, making a table.  This was a piece a friend of mine and I actually make from a old table that looked like this.

I specifically wanted a piece that fit into an area of my bedroom and so we decided to disassemble the table, reconfigure the frame and then put it back together.  Oh yea, and refinish and paint it too.  This week I'll show you some of the during process and then next Thursday will be the big reveal, my finished table.

So far we:

Took the table apart, here are the legs.

Cut the frame to fit a narrow depth, and reassembled the frame.  Here is a mock up with the baskets it is being designed for.

We also:

• Put a shelf on the top portion of the legs at the bottom of the square parts of the legs. (Did you follow that). This was to hold the baskets.
• And created a frame on the top to increase the space between the pending shelf and the top so the baskets I had would fit.
• And sanded everything then painted the shelf.

Here I am sanding away.  Excuse the iphone photo, but check out my matching work clothes :-)

More sanding of the top oak pieces outside.

But that's all for today, I don't want to tease you too much :-) Stay tuned for the final reveal, the after of "Making a Table" next week Thursday. Sounds like a soap opera!