Breakfast in bed is a pleasant surprise for a loved one, which cannot be realized without a bedside table. This item helps to make similar surprises with enviable frequency and competently complements the interior of any home.
If you've never received breakfast in bed, think about it: maybe you just don't have a bedside table?
Today, tables for breakfast in bed are presented in a wide variety in almost every furniture store. Manufacturers make such an accessory from different materials. However, the surprise for your loved one will be much more pleasant if you make a breakfast table in bed with your own hands.
In this article we will look at all the features of this process.
Why is it better to do everything yourself?
Markets and furniture stores are full of bedside tables; it’s easy to choose a similar accessory for your home. Why do homemade products have more advantages?
- Firstly, such a product is not cheap. Not every person can afford to unplannedly purchase a countertop for their home.
The design of the bedside table is quite simple - a tabletop enclosed in a border around the edges and legs. - Secondly, a product made independently will bring more pleasure. Such a surprise will be remembered for a long time, and will be a special reason for pride.
Not every person can boast of furniture made with their own hands.
Materials and tools
In this article we will look at the process of making a simple model of a table from a furniture panel.
This is a very reliable, beautiful and relatively inexpensive material.
Before starting work, you need to prepare the following materials and tools:
- Furniture board (600x400 and 18 mm thick);
- 4 strips for sides (2 pcs. – 600 and 2 pcs. – 400);
- Punch;
- 2 strips 550 mm long and 2 strips 314 mm long - for the side;
- PVA glue;
- Nails;
- 4 strips 245 mm long - for legs;
- 2 strips 278 mm long - for crossbars;
- Drill;
- Screws 35 mm long;
- Sandpaper;
- Varnish.
By preparing these materials and assembling the tabletop using the instructions, you can get a neat product with a height of 260 mm.
Design
The design of tables for breakfast in bed depends on the preferences of the owners, as well as the stylistic direction of the bedroom, where the table will actually “serve”:
noble classics - a laconic, slightly massive table made of oak or pine; colors are closer to natural, most often chocolate, rich brown; a minimum of decorations, only the sides can be figured or carved.
minimalism - lack of decorative details, tabletop - wood or glass; unless the straightness and severity of the lines can be diluted by the graceful bend of the legs or interesting unusual crossbars.
French Provence – light shades and maple wood; the pattern on the tabletop is made using decoupage technique; the sides are in a rustic style, somewhat rough, imitating untreated wood.
Step-by-step instruction
- We make preparations.
To make the process of manufacturing and assembling the table quick and easy, you must first prepare all the wooden blanks. First you need to cut out the furniture panel.
It will have the shape of a regular rectangle with sides 600 and 400.
The thickness of the shield should reach eighteen. When the shield is ready, all its sides can be sanded with sandpaper. Next, you can start making limiters. For the front and back sides you need to cut the sides with a length of 620, and for the sides - with a length of 400.
The height of the limiters should slightly exceed the thickness of the furniture panel.
Next, we cut out the components of the box - four blanks.
We cut the workpieces using a hacksaw and a miter box.
And finally we start cutting out the legs. You will need to make four blanks. Each length is 245 mm.
Making legs.
- We install the sides.
When the blanks are made, you can assemble the structure. First, we attach the sides using nails and a hammer. The sides should protrude slightly above the surface of the table. We press the nails into place with a punch.
We nail the side.
- We collect the box.
For this you can use regular PVA glue. We connect the four blanks, coat the joints and fix the box using improvised means. The adhesive joint should harden thoroughly.
We glue, using clamps we connect the parts to be glued.
- Glue the box.
To do this, it needs to be placed symmetrically on the back surface of the table.
We glue the box using the same glue and let it harden.
- We attach the legs.
Once the box is glued to the table, you can begin attaching the legs. To do this, first make holes for fasteners in four blanks.
The legs are almost ready.
We attach the legs to the box using screws. Their length should not exceed 35 millimeters, otherwise the screws will come out from the other side.
Attaching the legs to the box.
- Finishing.
When the structure of the tabletop for breakfast in bed is completely assembled, it must be carefully sanded. And then you can varnish it.
Let's start applying the paintwork.
Materials
A table for breakfast in bed is made of wood, sheet materials based on wood (most often painted plywood), plastic, glass, metal (mainly painted thin steel), and there are also combined ones - from two materials. The most expensive is a wooden tray for breakfast in bed - oak, beech, linden, which are carved from solid wood - a single piece of wood. But trays assembled from well-processed fragments look no worse, and the price is two to three times lower.
A tray with legs is another name for a serving bed table.
They also use a simpler and cheaper species - pine. But pine wood is very soft, so you need to handle it carefully. Wooden portable tables can simply be well polished, or they can be varnished and decorated with carvings. They are selected according to the taste of the owners or the surrounding environment.
More affordable options are made with a plywood tabletop and a wooden frame. This option looks no worse and fits into any interior.
With a table top made of plywood or plastic
There are also glass and plastic models. Glass tables for breakfast beds are usually made in combination with a wooden frame and legs; you can find a glass + metal option. But glass models are not so numerous, since they still require special handling.
Plastic models, maybe not so elegant, but definitely practical
The cheapest and, at the same time, the most practical are plastic bed tables for serving breakfast in bed. They are very easy to care for, they are light and quite durable. The legs in such models are usually metal, painted in a contrasting color or to match the tabletop.
A less numerous group is metal portable tables for bed. They are positioned more as a part-time laptop stand, but can also be used for serving. They are convenient because they have a wide range of leg height adjustment.
Metal bed tables look very modern
If desired, you can find bamboo tables. The frame can be covered with matting, made of bamboo wicker or other environmentally friendly material.
Bamboo is an exotic material for our country, but you can also find a bamboo table for breakfast in bed
You can probably find bed tables made of other materials. Anything can happen. By the way, the shape of this tray-table can be not only rectangular, but also round, although this option is very rare.
Round table for breakfast in bed
There are even more elegant models - with carvings, bent or curly legs, but they are not suitable for every interior.
Decoration
We looked at step-by-step instructions for making the simplest version of a table for a bed.
Comfortable breakfast table with stable legs.
It can be slightly modified and supplemented with various details. And if you still decide to make just this option, then at the end you can decorate it in an original way.
And then it will become a very beautiful addition to the interior of the house.
How can you decorate a wooden table for a bed? The easiest option is painting. To do this, you need to choose any high-quality wood paint.
The table can be painted in one color, or an original design can be made.
If you have a small piece of beautiful fabric at home, then it can also be used to decorate the product. For example, you can cut a strip of fabric and glue it to the side surface. You can also make flowers from fabric and attach them to the side surface using PVA.
The tabletop of such a table is a field of activity for the imagination of designers.
How else to use a table for breakfast in bed
You can use a laptop table to serve your morning coffee, since technology has become a part of our lives, and holding it on your lap is not very convenient and is fraught with consequences. Therefore, almost every family has such a universal design, and if not yet, it’s worth taking a closer look and buying a multifunctional model.
Many people feel uncomfortable constantly working at a desk and want to move to a chair or sofa. If this situation is familiar, it will also be interesting that today they produce special models for laptops that can accommodate breakfast. Their cost is slightly higher than that of conventional designs, since they are complemented by expanded functionality and a tabletop that rotates for a more convenient viewing angle.
Table functionality
For a laptop, a fan is built into the tabletop for cooling, and there is a tray nearby for serving breakfast. The model can be supplemented with a variety of functionality:
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