{DIY} Herringbone Table

This was one of those semi-impromptu projects I get myself into sometimes.

When I was cleaning and setting the furniture back up on our screened porch a few weeks ago I started playing with the furniture arrangement a little.  Which I do pretty much all the time anyway, but this room only became inhabitable for the first time last summer, so this is actually only the second time things have been moved around out here.

But more on my reasons for moving the furniture later...

When I moved the sofa to its new spot it was suddenly screaming for a coffee table.  But we were definitely not going to buy one right now.  So I started digging around the hoards of furniture stashed in our basement and garage and came out with two of these end tables we got for free (well, "free") when we bought our sofa seven years ago.

In fact, one of them lived on the porch last year.

So my wheels starting turning...

The tables were pretty banged up already with peeling veneer and/or chipped paint so I made a pretty quick decision to break them apart and repurpose the pieces as a new table with a herringbone inlay pattern on top.  The only things I needed to buy were a few pine boards and four furniture feet.  I stained the finished table with a light grey/cream stain and gave it a top coat of protective wax.

I'll share some more details with you and a general tutorial on how you might do something similar tomorrow, but for today, here's the finished table!

Click HERE for a tutorial on making this yourself!