Husky Farmhouse Table

Hello DIY Friends!  

I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  Can you believe it is still snowing up here in Alaska?  I can't either, and I tell you what, I am ready to be working outdoors on projects.  If you get a second, point your fans north and blow some of your hot weather toward us, will you?

We have been busy getting the odds and ends complete on the downstairs of the Momplex (I'll be posting an update for you later this week) and then finishing up the drywall downstairs.  I've been told to order flooring, doors and moulding - how crazy is that?  I know we aren't getting Mom moved in by this weekend (sorry Mom!), but we are feeling so great about how things are moving along (haha I'm not trying to be punny!).

You know we've been working double time now, right?  That's right, we took on another job.  Darn little nieces are just too cute!

Well, of course, I'm going to be building (or helping build - my sister wants to build her own furniture too!) furniture for my nieces as well.  And I've already been working on projects in my spare time.

I was just thinking about something as I was putting together these photos.  I often get magazines asking for "amazing before and after photos" to showcase my work, and I kinda give them a funny look and say, "but my before photos are a pile of 2x4s."  

When we build furniture, it's not always about dramatic room transformations.  It's not always about magazine-worthy after photos.

It's about this:

Our befores-and-afters are about making our lives better.  Having a place to eat dinner.  Getting mattresses off floors, corralling toys into toyboxes, books into shelves ....

But I won't tell you a lie ... making something pretty doesn't hurt either :)

My sister and I put this table together surprisingly quick - in just a few hours.  She wanted a "planked top" look made of 2x6s, so that took a little longer to get the top really flat and level (no rocking plates on this tabletop!).  We love you belt sander.  You could be smarter than us and use tongue and groove for the top.  But I promise you, you won't get an arm workout like we did.

I gave the legs an authentic old world finish and will be sharing that tutorial with you next week - it's actually a pretty easy finish to achieve!

And of course, we got you covered with the free Farmhouse Table plans following!

Also giving a shout-out to the folks at Osborne Wood for providing the legs for this table.  The legs are just massive, and retail for about $50 a leg for the legs shown.  You will be shocked at how giant these legs are!  Thank you Osborne Wood!