An Old Ikea Coffee Table Hack: a house log
Every once in a while someone asks us where we found the table in the sunroom and it reminds us that we owe you some details.
We in fact DIYed it a few years back with a $7.99 lack table from Ikea and the old tabletop that came with the inexpensive thrift store pedestal that we picked up to create this table in the corner of the quite same room (see how we took out the original square tabletop and replaced it with a larger round top from Lowe’s right here).
And since that original square tabletop was then up for grabs we chose to put it to good use as the new top for our lack table. Of course if you do not have a thrift store tabletop on hand, you can consistently buy a pleasant chunky square piece of wood from the hardware store (and even have it cut to size by them) to create one. Here is a view from below so you can check out the undercarriage:
We simply used plain metal L-brackets to attach the lack table to the new top for a chunky game table that we use all the time (we sit on the floor cushions and play Scrabble). Oh and our pointer here would be to make sure the screws that you use to attach the L-bracket to the tabletop are short sufficient so they will not poke through the top of the table. That would be bad.
In case you are wondering why the top of the lack table is wood-toned while the legs are white, we originally used a wood-toned lack table and later switched the legs for white ones (we also had a white lack table around) when we chose we hoped them to match the top as opposed to having a two-toned look. We were simply feeling lazy so we screwed the white legs into the wood-toned lack top since it was already attached with L-brackets to the new larger wood tabletop. We figure no one but Burger sees the evidence that the lack table was once a distinct color so it is fine. So that is how that little sunroom game table came to be. Have you folks done any more elaborate Ikea hacking lately? Any Target or HomeGoods hacking going on?
Psst- Here is our biggest Ikea hack to date, in fact it even landed us on ikeahacker.com a while back. We heart that site.
