Sliding table for entertaining guests with his own hands

Soviet-style tiny kitchen not able to accommodate the furniture and appliances necessary in this area. Put an ordinary kitchen table, has a problem, he is there all the clutter space. The only possibility to somehow solve this problem - to use instead of a conventional sliding table.

Usually furniture is bought in the store, but our people have long since found another way out - make it your own hands. Really spend some twenty thousand rubles, in general, a simple thing as something silly if you can do it yourself.

The desire to make a sliding table creates a lot of problems, and the first of them leads the master to determine the order which table he wants? If you do not take into account the very very exotic models, all known to us tables are divided into two types: round and rectangular.

Round, oval or rather sliding table - the reality of everyday life of modern people, make this oval is no more difficult than a rectangle.

Another thing, when you set out to make a sliding table correct round form, including in the extended state. Collect a piece of furniture is difficult, the number of its component parts is too large and it will take to solve a number of engineering problems or take advantage of other people's decisions, which will not lead to a significant simplification of the forthcoming work. For practical person such super-task is not peculiar, it follows the path of least resistance.

The path of least resistance, in this case - is to create a rectangular or oval (in form of an irregular circle) sliding table. The round table will take in the room too much precious space, so most of the craftsmen prefer a rectangle, and easier to find suitable materials for it.

Further it is necessary to determine the material. Due to the high cost and complexity of processing solid wood have to give up an oak table top and legs. Countertop will make of laminated chipboard and metal legs available in the shop. Laminate countertops fits perfectly because it looks stylish and beautiful, besides laminated table surface repels moisture.

In addition to pieces of laminate and metal legs it needs many other items, including:

• four corner aluminum length of at least fifty centimeters each;
• a pair of telescopic guides, the length coinciding with the corners;
• dowels 8 mm in diameter and 40 mm in length;
• screws 4 mm in diameter and 20 mm in length,
• bolts, screws, adhesive and a material for finishing the edge of countertops.

Screws can be considerably shorter than the thickness of the countertop future. The main tools for table assembly are a drill and screwdriver. However, the screwdriver can be replaced and a screwdriver. The process will be more time consuming, but satisfaction from the work done at the finish line will not be less.

Step by step guide of manufacturing sliding table

1. The process of assembling the sliding table should begin with the measurements. The first thing you need to measure - it is pieces of laminate flooring. There should be three equal pieces of width. Two of them should be the same length, the third - shorter. They should be spread out on a flat surface so that the short piece caught between two identical, align and measure all place. Their total length will be the length to push the table, it is important that it fits in the kitchen or in the room.
   

   Cut parts countertops future according to the drawing

   

   Drawing sliding countertops

2. To the table structure was solid, both in the extended and in the retracted state in the end of each laminate piece on the inner side at least is necessary to drill two holes with a diameter of 8 mm and a depth of 20 mm. The holes in the inset should be drilled from both sides. The holes on one board should completely coincide with the openings at the other two, when they are combined with each other. Then, in the first hole of the board must be put on the glue sorokamillimetrovye dowels, so they sat down there tightly. The same should be done and with the holes on one side of the insert. Now laminate pieces may be joined together. one dowel boards sticking out from the end will be free to enter into another hole
3. Then you need to measure the length of corners and outline on one side of each mid-point and the future of holes to be drilled with a drill. In two corners of the hole should be located to the left of the middle, and the other two on the right.
   

   Drilled holes at the corners

4. Telescopic guides consist of two parts, wherein one of these parts is placed in the other and free to move within it. They need to disconnect and bolted to the aluminum angles so that the wide, fixed, part guide was attached to the area with the holes on the right and be attached to a narrow area with holes left.
   

   We are putting a portion of the guide to the corners, holes and drilled envisage

5. The second telescopic guide to be connected to the second pair of corners of the same. It remains only to screw the rails to the two main pieces screws laminate. At the same time wide of the guide must be attached to one part of the table top, and narrow to another. Thus, a sliding mechanism, which allows to increase significantly the area of ​​the section, when it is needed and return it to its normal state, if the need for a large table disappeared.
   

   Design of parts with movable and fixed guide

   

   Fasten the movable side to the right side, the fixed - to the left of the table top

6. Available Extension dining tables is useful only when it increases in size by the owners desire. Avoid inadvertent moving apart as possible if installed on all parts of the countertops simple locks that hold the table halves together. Additional insert is held between the table top left and the right half is not only due to four dowels, but also due to the sliding mechanism (which it is) is firmly bolted to countertop.
   

   On each side of the table clasp fasten with screws

7. In order to attach the legs to the table, first you need to fix on its inner surface, the so-called heel, which then simply screwed feet. Heels are attached to the table top with screws dvadtsatimillimetrovymi.
   

   Screws fasten the legs to the table top

   

   Kitchen table on the purchased metal legs legs

Finishing touches

Kitchen table such design can become a place for a large family gathering in the evening, or the center of the festive events (birthdays, wedding anniversaries, etc.). However, by itself the old laminate are unlikely to inspire people for a long feast. The situation is different if it lightly decorated. It turns laminate surface after some processing and can be painted even paint on them. In order to achieve the desired effect, you need quite a bit. Cover the end of the countertop edge tape, no matter what color, only to close an ugly end. Sanded the surface with sandpaper, putty dents handle and cover with acrylic paint. Paint can be any color from white to black. On black background wallpaper image is applied colors in the style of Zhostovo tray, making a sliding table, an ordinary utilitarian thing, a work of art. Manual work is always in danger of becoming an art master who created it - always a creator.

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