Steel Wheel, hardwood farm gate coffee table

You may remember the wheels from a post I made ages ago - Gas Bottle Trolly - I finally realised an idea for the table.

Visiting the farm across the road where the farmer has been replacing old fences and gates I came across a hardwood gate lying in the grass. "Ahhh" I said to myself.

Well the timber sat int he garage for months next to the wheels. They must have had a conversation and conspired to get together - with my help.

 

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Coffee table - Pallet, casters and a slightly difrent look

I enjoy pallets

To up-cycle and recycle
To do up and to Build
Something not quite perfect
In a world obsessed with perfection

Cracked and bent

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Driftwood stool

Fence battens and a beautiful piece of worn painted timber all from Blacks Beach Mahia... Nice.

               
 

Pallet chair - 2 seater

very upright

painted blue and sitting in the garden... nice

Pallet chair... very comfortable

 

Pallets are the best... free, versatile
and when finished... comfortable

Pallet bed side table

not an entire pallet
cut clean and tight
glued and screwed
hold my water glass tonight.

2 Seater Deck Chair - Pallets again.

Update for the two seater... it is now red and has a red companion table.

This 2 seater is a little different to the first one and there was a weight bearing issue due to the fact that pallet used for the seat is orientated 90 degrees, so I reinforced it with a capping on the front which sorted the bending issue straight away. Bla bla.

Another 3 Legged Stool

Old fence posts found on Blacks Beach for legs and a piece of log also found on Blacks Beach.

Iconic with castors... of course.

The ABC beer crate is iconic in NZ especially when it come to Lion Red and DB. I came into possession of the crates - must keep the source under wraps - and have been making all manner of things from them. This coffee table is the latest crack at something useful... with castors.

Houlihan - fine legged retro grunge

Finding good legs is not easy. Whilst on a small trip to pick up our new dog Stanley, we stopped in at a few second -had establishments in Woodville. That is where I found the legs.

The table top needs no explanation other than it needed rebuilding and sanding.

Hooks and old wood

I like the shape of coat hooks and their functionality. There are so many uses. And beside the bed, they can be a place to hang necklaces.

There is something engaging about old wood. Old worn, painted wood. 

Put it all together and there is something both useful and interesting. 

OMG - Rustic Shelving Ugly Thing

I was inspired to attempt a rustic piece of furniture - a mix of driftwood and manufactured wood. 

There is a stack of ABC boxes in my garage - the ones that DB Brown come in. I thought that this could be good for the experiment.

The boxes make very good shelves and - well, the drift wood legs hold it all up. The boxes are white washed to let the stenciling come through. 

Kauri Coffee Table - on Castors

The colour is so warm and the nail just makes it I recon

Many years back I was living in the Waikato... finishing my Psych degree. I answered an advert in the local rag selling a stack of old wood. A carpenter had recently passed away and had left the basement full of; his widows wife explained, "bloody stacks of the stuff and I don't know what to do with it!"

Amongst many finds I picked up a stack of Kauri. At 145 x 50mm it was the perfect sized timber to make something solid and lasting. I immediately imagined a table - coffee table of course.

The timber was rough sawn and needed a great deal of time on the belt sander. After it was put together I threw on tons of beeswax and linseed oil with steel wood. Steel wool makes the surface so soft.

The castors was an obvious choice. I like Castors.

Pallet Coffee Table

On Casters no less.

Obviously this is a pallet that has been upscaled to a coffee table. This is not a new idea by any means... just throw pallet coffee table into google and there they are... thousands of them. Regardless, I love the idea and once again it is turning the proverbial 'firewood' into something useful.

This one is pine and has had a light sand on the top. I added fillets of timber to fill the gaps on the lid and a block to each corner to lift the table up for the casters.

Obviously it could be painted, stenciled or what-have-you. It has been sold :-)