As I talked about during the
dining room stop of the house tour, I've been dreaming of a bigger dining room table for years now. Our first table only held four people, and we regularly have six people over for dinner. We all had to smoosh together around a too-small table, and our food had to be set up buffet-style on the kitchen counters, which then left no room to cook anything... And God forbid we want to invite more than six people over to eat, because then we'd probably be better off eating on the floor. It was about time we changed that.
So for Christmas, Mr. Great Indoors built me my very own beautiful table. Of course, I took plenty of pictures through the process and thought I'd share them in two separate posts: one dedicated to the building of our beautiful table and one just for all the tasty pictures. Mmmmm.
I'm choosing not to call this one a "do it yourself" project because we had specialized furniture equipment at our disposal. Mr. GI's family owns a furniture store, and they also have a shop full of equipment for manufacturing their own pieces. They were kind enough to let us use their lumber and tools for a few days. You could certainly do a good portion with your own sander, table saw, etc., but it would probably take longer than the three days Mr. GI took to build ours.
