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

Jen Panguluri Easy Furniture Projects, Side Table bamboo, cement/concrete, DIY furniture, Lamp pipe legs, Legs, live-edge, magazine rack base, Mid-Century Modern, narrow, paint tinted cement, side table, wood shim

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.)

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July 31, 2016

Wood Shim Wall Art

Jen Panguluri Decor, wall art, wood shim DIY, DIY decor, upcycle, wall art, wood shim

Upcycle some wood shims! This wood shim wall art is made of ordinary 16-inch construction cedar wood shims glued together.

I’m back from vacation and ready to make more furniture and decor! Let’s get to it!

Supplies/Tools:

16 inch wood shims
Titebond 3 (or another wood glue)
four bar clamps (length depends the length of your shim wood art)
ruler
square
timer
jigsaw
sandpaper
polyurethane (or another finish)

The 16-inch cedar wood shims I used for this project commonly come in packages of 42 at home improvement stores. I bought four packages (168 total shims) at Menards, but I didn’t use all of these. After I opened the packages, I sorted them into “keepers” and “other.” My (more…)