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5+ Fantastic DIY Side Tables Under $25 from DIY Furniture Studio

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If you make one of these side tables you will be the only person with one like it.  Yours will be your color, your piece of wood, your chosen legs, your height, and so on….customized to how you want it.  The top three things I have in mind about the DIY furniture I create are that the furniture is: 1) customizeable, 2) easy to make, and 3) inexpensive.  So here are 5 side tables I made this year that cost less than $25 to make and can be made by people without much experience or expensive tools.  They are all customizable in ways that I describe in the posts and in other ways you think of.  Please feel free to share your version of any of these side tables in the comments section, or e-mail me photo(s), and I will put together a “brag” post.  (This goes for any of my tutorials.)

DIY cement side table. Tutorial.

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Live Edge Tree Slice Side Table with Legs made of Lamp Pipe

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DIY Live edge tree slice side table with standalone legs made of lamp pipe, brass flanges, and brass ball feet.

This live-edge tree slice table is made from a horizontal cut of the trunk of a mulberry tree.  I made the legs, my new version of DIY industrial pipe legs, from steel lamp pipe and brass fittings.

DIY tree stump table mulberry wood grain on table top
DIY industrial pipe legs made of lamp pipe and brass flanges with brass ball feet
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As I mentioned in the “About” section, I originally became interested in making furniture in order to furnish our three-season sunroom. I intended to rehabilitate the sunroom from being a storage area, and before that when the kids were little, a playroom.  (I say “intended” because the sunroom is now my workshop studio.)  I was looking for furniture that I could make, having limited skills, tools, and budget.  The first type of furniture that caught my eye was the live-edge style.  “Live edge” refers to furniture where the natural edge of the wood is incorporated into the design of the piece.  It was popularized by George Nakashima in the middle of the last century.  Live-edge furniture can be deceptively complex, with emphasis on craftsmanship, sanding, and finishing.  Because of the limitations I mentioned, I am making simple live-edge tables made of a “slice” of the tree, with legs.  It is an uncomplicated style, rustic and elegant all rolled together!

The Live Edge Side Table project has six main parts:

  • Finding, Choosing, and Drying Wood
  • Removing Bark
  • Optional: Leveling Tree Slice with Router
  • Sanding and Finishing
  • Making the Lamp Pipe Legs
  • Attaching the Legs to the Tree Slice

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