{"id":315,"date":"2014-04-22T19:13:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T19:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diyguidebook.co.uk\/?p=315"},"modified":"2016-10-24T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:49:50","slug":"olivias-table-and-chair-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelbibby.co.uk\/woodwork\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Olivia’s Table and Chair Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"google_plus\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"google_plus\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a><\/span>

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With my daughter Olivia getting bigger and more grown-up with every passing month we decided that she could do with having her own table and chair to sit at. She could then use it for eating meals, drawing, painting and playing games etc rather than having to use a high chair all the time.<\/p>\n

Although there are plenty of tables and chairs available to buy in the shops, as usual I wanted to build this myself. My woodworking projects are rarely a way to save money as I’m sure most of the time it’d work out cheaper to actually buy a cheaply made product than it would cost in tools and materials. But hey, the point here was to make something I could be proud of!<\/p>\n

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So I started with my usual 3D designs on the computer, based on measurements of commercially available products. There were a few various “standard” sizes which manufacturers seemed to be offering in the toddler furniture range, so I decided to build to the larger of these size just to make sure there was room for Olivia to grow into it. Also I figured if it was wrong, it’d be easier to cut some off the legs than it would to stick some back on again \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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The 3D Plans Built on the Computer<\/p><\/div>\n

The design was pretty simple, but you will see that it did change slightly as I went along. However the overall measurements stayed the same.<\/p>\n

The first stage in construction was buying the timber. As my plan was to build this project pretty fast and also to paint it, I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on materials. So I decided to just nip down to B&Q to look for some cheap(ish) PSE boards which I could just buy off-the-shelf. Lucky for me, when I went they had a bargain bin full of random boards and I managed to buy a load of wood for under \u00a315! All of this would be more than enough for the basic framework.<\/p>\n

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B&Q had a bunch of timber in their bargain bin, and all of this timber cost less than \u00a315<\/p><\/div>\n

I also managed to liberate an old table top which my parents were going to throw away. So all-in-all the materials for this project were pretty cheap.<\/p>\n