Dominoes Covered Coffee Table

As my old coffee table was beginning to show the ravages of time on its surface, I began looking for a cheap yet unique way to save it.
A while ago my sister and I saw a dominoes covered table (also here) and really liked the idea, so when a local shop sold a pack of dominoes for 3$ I went and bought 12 packs of them and went to work.

Step 1 Materials

Required:

• One table. To be lifted to new heights beyond the mundane for the glory of your living room.
• Sets of dominoes. Each pack contains 28 of them and mine measured at (4.7 * 2.4)cm. (1.85" x 0.94")
• Mighty glue. I used something called Montack by a company called Ceys that the guy at the shop recommended. for some reason the writing on it was in Spanish.

Optional but helpful:

• A metal ruler or any straight object that will help move around the bricks when you do the pre gluing measures.
• a Bucket, to put all your dominoes in.

Optional but unhelpful:

• A cat. They like to sit on the table and mess up any test arrangements you made. Later they might try to peel off the glued dominoes.

Optional according to your situation

• Sanding paper or a sander if your table surface is not smooth (like mine was)
• Coloured Wood varnish and brush. Because I didn't cover the entire table, I wanted to restore some of the exposed areas.

Comments

[JanetKopolovitch]

I'm glad you included your cat helper!

[JanetKopolovitch]

I loved your comment about the "optional but unhelpful" cat. I swear you made me laugh for 5 minutes!

[KoNami]

exciting exciting!!!

[KoNami]

I am the sister!! this is very exiting!!

[frollard]

Neat setup! From the looks of 36 bucks worth of dominoes, one might be ahead to buy enough for full coverage. One thought I had - if you have access to a bandsaw with a fence and a featherboard-- the dominoes could be cut horizontally to make 2 - a front and a back, both with a neat view :D Great stuff! 5 from me.

[Awesome-aniac]

I like it.