Mum picked up this pine slatted shelf from the car boot sale because she thought it looked like the top of a picnic table and that’s what I wanted for the beer garden. Tom wasn’t busy today so he helped me make a start.
First step – hack the shelf into three roughly equal parts.
Next – cut cross-braces for the underneath of the table tops. They are not fixed on at this point.
After much faffing about angles, cut the legs and attach to the cross braces.
When I attached them to the tops, the tables looked a bit tall but it’s hard to tell till the seats are on. There’s no planning gone into this!
I attached the seat supports and balanced some wood across so Tom could try it out for me – his feet don’t touch the floor! So I took the legs off and shortened them.
Now to decide about the seats. I would have liked three slats on each but there wasn’t enough of the thinner wood and I was too tight to buy more. The thicker wood means I can only have two slats – but then it does mean there is more room to easily get the dolls’ legs under the table.
Two slats it is then. All finished apart from the painting, and Tom gets a bottle of ‘Old Thumper’ to say thanks for his help.
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