When I’m thrifting, I always keep my eyes open for great table legs even if they’re attached to a piece-of-crap top. The legs below are a case in point: I found them at Value Village a few weeks ago attached to an Arborite top so crummy I balked at the $9.99 price tag. But the legs were awesome and I knew they’d be a great match for my daybed so I plunked down my tenner.
I intended to use the legs on another project but they weren’t quite tall enough so I decided to turn them into the little side table, above, with the addition of a brass tray I already owned. I reckoned I could affix the legs with epoxy but I wanted to make sure I’d be happy with the result so I did a test run with duct tape. Well, the tape did such a good job I’m going to leave it as is, that way it’s easy to undo if I decide to use the legs for a different project down the road.
October 11th, 2011 at 7:11 am
A table that was made to be.
Love all the yellow!
October 11th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Yet another use for duct tape. Will wonders never cease.
October 11th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
HI Chris: I’ve made tables beforebout of found legs,to great success! Bought beauliful figurine fron Larysa Fenyn today! SM
October 12th, 2011 at 4:25 am
Red Green would approve
October 26th, 2011 at 7:34 am
It looks great. BTW if you are ever close to Bracebridge, when we cleaned out our old cottage last year and took stuff to the ReStore, there was literally a shelf of old legs. I wished I had grabbed four at the time, because I am thinking of trying to safely raise my couch height(so my Jack Russel can get his toys from underneath without me using a broom).