Folding coffee table

Don't we all love coffee tables?
In this tutorial I'll show you how to make a coffee table that's foldable so that you can easily hide or move it.
This started out as a project for school in which we had to execute an instructable and then try to improve it by own design. The instructable I based my design on is the Folding Low Table by wholman .

Step 1: Tabletop frame

First we start by making the frame that supports the tabletop directly.

Take 2 pieces of pine wood, 1" x 2", 48" long each.

Cut out a 1" x 1" piece on the side in the middle of each piece of wood so these can fit into each other forming an X.

Then drill a hole 2 inch on each side from the centre of your wood, these will carry the supports.

Comments

[blkhawk]

Great work!

[Cheiron]

Very Nice!

[chicopluma]

if you made a not too deep hole in the floor of your kitchen, you can pull a rope or something and a table comes out of the floor, and when fold it back it looks like just some rope in the floor

[leeski]

great color choices - this product is ready for a dwell photo shoot!

[crestind]

Really cool table! Was this for an industrial design course? If you add a few extra notches or maybe a screw thread, you could have multiple heights.

[buvra]

nice work (Y)

[Green_Primus]

Love it! Only would add/change a few things:

~Add "nubs" in the guild track along the top to give it height "settings",
and
~Round off the legs so that way when you adjust the height the footing isn't compromised.

[Barb4impressions]

Great looking table - nice for a patio or anywhere outdoors so it can be stored off-season. I wonder about it's weight?

[alxjnsn]

I'm not sure, but it isn't that heavy because I can easily hold it with one arm stretched. It's still at school and we don't have a scale that i know of.. I think it's just heavy/light enough based on solidity/portability.

[Reallunacy]

The weight would really depend on what materials you used. For instance, if you used birch for a top instead of MDF, or pressure treated exterior two by fours as opposed to the regular interior two by fours. Basically you can decide the weight when you build it.

[wenoel]

But a coffee table is short (20")and this looks much taller. How tall is it?

[alxjnsn]

It's 25" tall.

[ARJOON]

i think that i will make one for my design project. i will use aluminum instead which will be lighter

[capt.tagon]

Nice piece, like the slot'n lock mechanism. I have a lift-up table project that can be adapted to.

[lifgrd]

Make it a little taller and it'd be a pretty sweet base for a poker table.

[barbara32ca]

This is a beautiful table!

[alxjnsn]

Thanks guys, I posted some pics of it folded.

[pdub77]

video would be great! Nice work!!!

[Terri1ND]

Wonder if this could be converted into a dining table?

[Greasetattoo]

Yeah, I would like to see some pictures of it folded..
Video, maybe?

[WildHeavenFarm]

Any pics of it folded?