Footrest helps kids sit comfortably at the table

Step 6 Finishing Touches

If you partially removed the top collars, re-assemble them now. The result should look like the first picture below.

Time for a test drive!

• Check that everything fits together snugly and adjust any joints that are out of square.
• If your top or bottom collars need to be bigger, use longer spacers between the couplers.
• Ask your child to try out their new footrest and verify that their knees fit comfortably under the edge of the table, etc. My kids were more excited to give it a try because I let them watch and play with the pieces as I put them together.
• If your chairs are significantly taller than mine, the crossbar may not be high enough. Try using longer risers.
• If the crossbar is too high for them, drill some holes lower down on the risers and lower the crossbar to use the lower holes.
• If you want to protect your chair legs from rub marks, consider putting some felt or other non-abrasive material between the top collars and the chair legs.

Now that you have all the design kinks worked out, it's time to glue the joints together.

• Use the strip of sand paper to rough up the spacers and the inside of the couplers, and then glue them together. This is especially important for all of the joints in the crossbar assembly (from 'T' coupler to 'T' coupler).
• Glue all of the "slip/slip" joints *except* the front and back joints in the two top collars (so you can still take them off easily)
• Remember that you can always drill new holes lower down the riser as your child's legs grow longer.

That's it. Enjoy!

Please share your feedback, ideas for improvements and how this works for your kids below!

Comments

[katie j]

that is confusing