It's easy to make a coffee table yourself(photo 1). How do you do it yourself? You need to choose the right material, know the structure of such furniture and have some skill in working with the tool. If this is the first experience, then a homemade table can be installed in the country. And if you gain experience, you can make excellent exclusive furniture for the living room of your house or city apartment. 
Photo 1. Scheme of a coffee table-transformer.
Material selection
The coffee table can be made from different materials. But more often for its manufacturing use:
- tree;
- plywood;
- glass.
Let's consider various variants of manufacturing of a coffee table from these materials. Structurally, the coffee table consists of the following parts:
- countertops;
- framework;
- legs.
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Manufacturing of countertops
You can take a smoothly planed wooden board andconnect them to each other with slats on the underside. Good quality floorboards that have a spike-groove connection are good. The boards joined together form a finished table-top. 
Tools for making a coffee table. If the upper part of the table is made of plywood, then it should just be gently cut according to the chosen size and sand the edges with sandpaper. The plywood must be of sufficient thickness. If there is a piece of glass of a suitable size, then it does not require any processing. In the glass, you just need to drill holes to attach the legs. Drilling glass at home is difficult, but possible. For this, a diamond drill bit is used. Drill the surface at a low speed drill, wetting the drill with mineral oil. To ensure that the drill does not slip at the start of drilling, it is recommended to stick a piece of tape in this place and mark the place where it is necessary to drill a hole on it with a cross. Back to contents</a>
Fabrication and fastening of legs
To produce the simplest framework,connect four bars together, forming a square or a rectangle. Connection using a stud joint requires some skills, so you can start with connecting brusks to each other with metal corners. The resulting frame is fixed top. You can fasten with nails or screws, twisting them from the underside, from the side of the frame. The length of the nails or screws should be chosen so that they do not pass through the countertop. When this work is done, it remains only to attach the legs. Plywood can be fastened with glue, so it is thin enough that nails can not pass through it. For reliability, you can drive in the corners of small nails, but from the side of the table top. 4 nails can not spoil the appearance of the product. 
Photo 2. Scheme of assembly of the table. Wooden bars, which are used as legs of a coffee table, are attached to the frame by means of metal plates. You can also use a stud connection, if you have already done something similar. If the table is large and the frame is large enough, you can simply insert the legs at its corners and nail them with small nails to the frame. For strength, the legs are fastened together with brushes, but if the table is small, this can not be done (photo 2). How to make a coffee table of glass? In the case of its manufacture, the bolts are inserted into the legs from their ends, inserted into the holes in the glass and fixed with nuts over the countertop. The sticking nuts can then be covered with wooden or plastic caps. These are the main moments of making a coffee table with your own hands. If you do everything neatly, you will get a very attractive product. It only remains to finish the finish, and you can use the table. Back to contents</a>
Finishing
First you should prepare well the woodensurface. For this, the tree should be sanded. The final sanding is made "zero". The finished surface can be painted or varnished. If the painting is done, you should use high-quality oil paint and a good paint brush, from which the hairs do not drop out during work. If the table is to be varnished, a colorless furniture varnish should be used. If the wood is simply varnished, the product will be light. But you can use stain, picking it the right color. With the help of stain, you can adapt the manufactured coffee table to any existing interior of the room. If you have the skills of woodcarving, you can make an unusual product, giving it a personality. It is not recommended to scrape the surface of the tree in this case. Naturally, the table should be made of wood. If we make a coffee table with a countertop for carving, then it must be made of boards that are well suited to this work. The easiest way to cut on a linden or aspen. You can use birch, but it is much harder. It is not recommended to use a pine or a tree for carving, since it is difficult to cut them out. You can start with the most simple table to understand in practice the general principle of manufacturing. Then you can experiment with this simplest design, making it all the more complicated. </ ul>
