Genius DIY folding table hack for your dining room! 

This is nice when you're having extra company over and you need another table for a dinner. And then you could hang that on a wall in your garage or your shed until you need it again.

Well that Hubby is a real keeper.

I was taught in shop class (eons ago) to use 0000 steel wool to apply stain instead of a brush or a rag. That way all the stain goes into the wood, including the oil, instead of the rag soaking up the stain and oil. It also smooths the wool a bit more. Then use fresh 0000 steel wool to smooth the raised grain between coats.

The black and copper stenciling is outstanding

Both are excellent, interchangeable table tops is fantastic , think of how useful it would be have a variety of colours, brilliant idea. Thank you

Wow! I wasn’t expecting THAT type repurposing! Amazing 🤩

I liked it much better before the stencil.

Wow that table looks beautiful!

Beautiful work! Turning a card table into a beautiful wood dining table…Amazing! And stenciling on wood making a fantastic design, Love it!

Couple more things to add. Glue, it's "stronger" but only when applied properly. Thin coats on both pieces being glued, not a heavy coat on one side. This pushes the glue into the grain on both sides, and letting the glue surfaces meld with each other ensuring the strongest bond. Glue is sorta stronger as well. It is however, weaker to expansion stresses and shock forces. Over time glue will become brittle as well. Always best to use both screws/nails and glue. For the trim, you should attach a bit of fir strip along the end cut sides as nails and screws don't hold well into the end grain. Attach a fir strip along the edge, and attach the finish trim to that instead/as well for added robustness of the finish trim. I would also recommend getting countertop epoxy to help give the top some dent/gouge resistance. Even with poly, pine is soft, and will definitely start showing damage fast. Final thing. Save yourself that folding table and take a look online, like Etsy, and find some nice legs to put the table on. Willing to bet you can find some cheaper than the table your putting the table top on. Overall though, I do like a simple build though, especially one that I can reuse wood I already have for. And this did come out looking nice.

Thank you! You are an excellent instructor.

You made that table top look way to easy with the nail gun. I keep telling myself I need to invest in one but always change my mind when I see the cost. 🤣 Maybe one day.

The narration was so relaxing, he's like the Bob Ross of DIY's

This video is deeply soothing. I endeavor to have this energy with my kids.

Great Video! Fast Easy and to the Point

Please tell us where do you find a stencil like that?

The game table vid is GR8

Folding card table cover is beautiful✨ Your narration is improving- the number of times you said "..go ahead and .." or ".. just go ahead and .." is going down🙌🏻 😉

I'm going to go ahead and leave a comment--nice job, it looks great!

These were awesome. Thanks for the inspiration.

When wood filling nail holes on bare wood place a piece of painters tape BEFORE you nail it in each spot, nail thru the tape then fill and sand with the tape in place, final sand after you remove it, the tape keeps the fill off the bare wood where it will cause the stain to take different if it gets in the grain. Your welcome.

Gave me a great idea. Perfect for when you need an extra table for the holidays! Thanks

This is the BEST IDEA EVER!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! LOVE IT! AMAZING!!♥️♥️♥️

Great idea looks wonderful

Very beautiful thanks 👍

I have seen tables like this in fancy homes, i.e. magazines, n the net in home decor with chairs. Whodaknew! Wowzer, great job sir.

Both very nice

That is one of the coolest ideas I have ever seen for an outdoor folding table. We have two like this that we use on our patio for gatherings. I'm going to get started on this next week. Excellent video and now a new subscriber.

Gorgeous!💕

I honestly thought you were gonna detach the top plastic white part and re attach the wood top you made. Still awesome work. I'm happy someone else had the same invasive thought and actually did it lol

I love what you done with that table overkay

I use the towel method too. When staining. Works great

🎉wow! I wish i had found this sooner. Could have saved lots of time from making a farm house table. Its all good. I love my table and i love yours too.

Fabulous idea! I have tables like this that were stored in a shed with stains on them. This will be a great way to fix their appearances. 💕♥️♥️❤️

Very nice wood card table makeover

Thank you Julie, the table turned out lovely, where did you find your stencil from?

NICE & LOVELY 💚

LOVED IT VERY NICE ,HOME HANDY MAN ,HAPPY WIFE ☺️😉

Beautiful workmanship! Thank you for sharing 🤗

Those were both great ideas! Thank you

Beautiful thank you for sharing

My comment has to do with the size of the finishing nails. If your using 1x6 boards and your nails are only 1 1/4” long that means only a quarter inch is actually going into the table top which isn’t really enough to hold securely. I understand that you don’t want the nails poking through the top but you could use a 1 1/2” or even a 1 3/4” and the nails wouldn’t be long enough to protrude through the entire 2” of both boards put together. This is especially true since you plan on removing the top and folding the base when not in use. The more you move the top, the more chance of that slight 1/4” pull out.

Very nice project and not complicated at all 👍

Beautiful work congratulations!

Love this!

The wood table top is brilliant but heaven forbid the legs fold and that comes down on a foot!!😮

You make it look so easy

WOW love that table❤

I love that table top. What are the measurements for that project?

Really nice, great job! 👏☺️

Very, very creative n lovely.

You should have used a pre stain sealer to control the blotchyness

I love this! I'm going to ask Hubby to do this while he's off in the winter months.

Beautiful.well done.

Great idea 💖💖

Gunstock is my favorite stain, too! I love this idea. Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful job you did loved it a lot.

nice table. how would you disguise the legs.

Paint a nice design on it and simply hang it on the wall as an art piece. Remove it from the wall and use it as a table top when guests come over. Yes, I know, it’s a genius idea. 🤣

Nice look! But how much additional weight did the woodwork add? One reason for having a folding table is it’s easy to move and store. Extra weight doesn’t help with that.

Thankyou for sharing.

The gunstock stain is blotchy. Longer smoother strokes with a brush are better, to avoid the obvious stop and start shifts in color and rub in later with the same long smooth strokes of your rag. The cracks between the boards will be bothersome as well; you might want to rip your boards first; or fill the cracks with matching sawdust and white glue mixed, before finishing.

Question. Could you possible make this a bit wider and longer allowing the boards to extend off the edge a bit. Say maybe 10” on each end?

Clever idea, really nice result!

Cool project !!

How practical would it be to make a version of the folding table that still folds?

i would like to see how the table looks like after 3 or 4 months. I would guess that there will be gaps, bows, and warping between boards.

Great job 👏🏼 beautiful!

Love it

Wow great

What I want to know is where to buy that folding table.

How do you keep it from tipping? Do you fasten it to the folding table?🤔

My hubby did the same thing to a large dog crate that we had in the house. We then could use it as a side table between the two couches.

Defeats the purpose of the table.

Very cute 🥰 nice work can you make One for me?

I wouldn’t mind cutting that wood in half along the line of the fold. Then glue it to the table, so that I can then have a portable table that’s better than just plastic. I might need to upgrade the legs though

Good one

I loved the folding table top idea. my daughter just opened up a retail store. she has a small budget and has had to use a lot of folding tables, with table cloths. This would be perfec, as the items that she sells are a farmhouse themed. It would be nothing at all to whip these together in a couple of days for all her tables. i liked the sideboard table Until she stenciled it. i think the stencil just ruined the whole project. But that's just my personal opinion. I think it makes it look somewhat gaudy now. like somehing from the 50's or even the 60's maybe.

Why didn’t you glue the edges of the 6’ table top boards? Without glueing them there is a Much higher chance of warping along the length individually and giving you an uneven surface.

If I had the money to own all of these tools, I would just go out and buy a new table😂

can you let us know what was the cost on the Table build? Thanks

Game table makeover looks great! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Don't like the stencil design. 👎🏼 Maybe it's the overall color combinations.

I prefer to spread glue with old credit cards, use acetone to remove the information from the card though I have to figure out how to disable the tap to use chips

Beautiful

It probably took longer to find 6 straight boards than it did to do the entire rest of the project.

Colour to orange

wicked cool

My issue is the gluing across grain. The glue won't hold as the wood long term. Might have well just nailed or screwed the boards which would have been even faster.

Where do you get the stencil ?

I put laminate flooring on mine

Awesome

Excellent video & projects 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

The bottom boards.. wouldn't the table wobble???

This table will destroy itself or warp like crazy. The boards glued to the bottom and end at 90 degrees to the top will induce a crazy warp or the glue joint will break. Boards expand and contract more in width than they do in length. Something has to give.

do it again this time use clear epoxy and throw some glitter paint under the clear epoxy

Here's a man who doesn't understand wood movement

Sorry I just got to ask what do you got planned for the legs somehow they just don't look right LOL

The Table looks nice at the end but its not a folding table anymore. So yes its a nice finish but i thought it is still foldable afterwards. So for me this Tip is useless. With the knowhow you have you easily could also build two new legs for the Table and have a hole new and nice looking table.

You've pretty much built a wood table. Why not just attach legs to it and make it a permanent fixture. The steel legs of the foldable table look out of place as it is with the wood top piece put on.... Plus it's meant to be portable and not a dining table. lol

Your wife must be a lot easier to please than mine. 😆