Made at 173: Upstairs Hallway Table - part 1
So, the class I'm in is winding up and I have a couple days off work so I wanted to get in the workshop and do something. One thing I've been wanting to do is make an accent table for the end of the upstairs hallway. Here's where we left of in October:
It's really difficult to get a good picture up there, but you get the idea. The problem with that spot is that there are two doorways at the end of the hallway so whatever piece was to go there certainly could't be particularly big, otherwise you'r have to squeeze by whenever you went into a room. I don't like that idea, so I had to come up with a solution. I decided to make the table top in a half-round shape. Lowes sells some round boards for making end-tables and the like, but they were too thick, which would throw things out of scale at the cramped end of the hallway. So I figured I'd have to do something I've never done - cut my own circles. I started with one of these boards from Lowes:
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It's really difficult to get a good picture up there, but you get the idea. The problem with that spot is that there are two doorways at the end of the hallway so whatever piece was to go there certainly could't be particularly big, otherwise you'r have to squeeze by whenever you went into a room. I don't like that idea, so I had to come up with a solution. I decided to make the table top in a half-round shape. Lowes sells some round boards for making end-tables and the like, but they were too thick, which would throw things out of scale at the cramped end of the hallway. So I figured I'd have to do something I've never done - cut my own circles. I started with one of these boards from Lowes:
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