Woman Builds DIY Wooden Dining Table
This woman built a DIY dining table base for a tabletop. After trimming the wood to length, she first drilled some pocket holes and attached them to the legs to construct a frame. Next, she created a beautiful pattern around the sides, attached the tabletop, sanded and polished the surface, and finished her work. It looked fantastic once it was ready.
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00:00 Hey y'all! On my last video, I shared how I make my table tops and in this video,
00:05 I'm going to show you how I made the table base. I started by measuring and
00:09 cutting my 2x4s to the right length. Two at 24 inches, two at 28 inches, and two at
00:15 59 inches. And then I made one and a half inch pocket holes on each end of all the
00:21 2x4s. I did this by standing the board straight up and down in the pocket hole
00:26 jig and then I laid the 2x4s down on their sides to make pocket holes along
00:33 the length of each of the boards. The pocket holes along the length of each
00:38 2x4 are going to be to attach the table top to the base. After the pocket holes
00:44 were all drilled, I just went ahead and gave all of the 2x4s a really good
00:48 sanding. After the sanding was finished, I was ready to assemble the base. My table
00:54 legs are from Amazon. I will leave a link below for these. I used two and a half
00:59 inch pocket hole screws to assemble everything together, starting with the
01:04 two 59 inch 2x4s and legs and then attached those two sections together
01:09 with the two 2x4s at 24 inches. I inset all of the 2x4s at one and a half
01:16 inches. And right here, I'm just measuring and marking 20 inches in from each table
01:22 leg and that's where I'm going to be placing the middle table supports. Also,
01:27 just a side note, you want to make sure that your pocket holes are all facing up
01:31 for the table top. Now right here, you could just add the table top and be done
01:36 with it, but I wanted to add a little bit more detail so I decided to take this
01:41 scrap piece of wood and kind of just hand draw a little bit of a curve design
01:46 on it and then I just used the jigsaw to cut out the design. The best part about
01:52 this table is that I built this entire thing only using four power tools. I used
01:58 a jigsaw, a circular saw, a power drill, and an orbital sander. I then just used
02:04 that same piece to trace and cut seven more out. I drilled a one and a half
02:10 inch pocket hole on the back of each of them and then used two and a half inch
02:13 pocket hole screws to screw them into place. And here is what the table looks
02:17 like with them all attached. I really wanted the 2x4s and the design pieces to
02:23 look more like one big piece of wood so I just went ahead and used the
02:28 varathane wood filler to fill in the divot in between the boards. While the
02:33 wood filler was drying, I went ahead and got the table top and attached that to
02:37 the base. I left one and a half inches of overhang on each end of the table as
02:42 well as one and a half inches on each side. I then sanded everything and
02:47 stained it in Varathane's weathered oak and then I sealed it with a lime wax
02:53 just using a dry paintbrush. If you find this DIY table tutorial helpful, make
03:00 sure you follow along for more building plans.