Building a workspace

by Kaija on Sunday, October 20th, 2013

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We’ve been dreaming about having standing tables for a long while now. Mainly to break the routine of sitting all day long. Wake up, make breakfast, sit in front of the computer. Walk to work, sit in front of the computer. Walk home, and then work some more… sitting down.

Buying one standing table, let alone two, costs more than we can afford, so we looked into DIY solutions. You can find a lot of “make your own standing table cheaply” -information on the internet, but they tend to concentrate mostly on making an elbow high pyramid of multiple pieces of furniture. Since one of our goals was to upgrade our furniture, not stack it on top of each other, we opted for the “new tabletops with long legs” option.

We got the Ikea NUMERÄR countertops and adjustable legs. If you’re interested, here‘s a nice step by step of the same process we had to go through to get from an untreated tabletop to our finished tables.

Overall it was a fairly straightforward and not an unenjoyable project, although due to supplies running out and underestimating the drying time it took way longer to finish than we thought. I sincerely hope these tables last a long time, because I’m not in a hurry to repeat this process any time soon.

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Sanding magic!

Sanding magic!

Staining the wood to get a nicer color.

Staining the wood to get a nicer color.

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A varnish pass, and we are done :)

Adding a varnish pass, and we are done :)

Voilà!

Voilà!

Smiles,
Kaija