Decorate your balcony, porch or garden with useful, outdoor coffee/side tables!
Whether under the cover of a porch, or outdoors in the garden, on a balcony or terrace, any relaxation corner needs a small table to place objects, drinks and food onto. And really, there can never be enough table tops available for all our needs.
So, if you are looking for some ideas to complete the furnishing of an outdoor living room, you can consider making a needed coffee table / side table, for example, using a DIY project. These can be built easily with concrete, wood and metal. Or convert other objects in a creative way. Take a look at the suggestions below:
A metal basket, perhaps repainted in a pop-art color and a round wooden top: turn the basket over, and fix the top on the bottom of the basket. It's simple and super cute!
There are many ideas for using even simple concrete to make a small table. And you can use hairpin metal supports that are also very popular in interior design for the legs, for example!
Or use a wooden structure that you had previously built (perhaps for some other, now-forgotten, project).
A table with the concrete top can have a round or square shape, but the procedure is always very similar: once you have bought or made the legs, you need to fill a bucket or basin with concrete (or anything that will mold the shape of the top) and when the concrete begins to set (it must still be soft), put your legs in and hold them in place until the concrete has completely solidified around them. Then you turn everything upside down and that's it - you just need to finish if off (or maybe even paint it.
You can also disguise a plastic bin by turning it upside down and cladding it with wood (even recycled pallet wood will do).
A quick, easy and inexpensive method consists in placing two metal baskets so that their respective bottoms are joined to each other. They become the base of the table, to be surmounted with a large disc of wood or other material for the top.
Similarly, sturdy garden pots can also be used.
If, on the other hand, you would like to take advantage of wooden logs, remember to treat them with the suitable oils to seal their fibers so that they resist inclement weather.
Even a log carved into the shape you want and well polished, is an excellent outdoor table.
Always irresistible, is the rustic charm of milk cans transformed into tables!
And so too are the large wooden spools used for cables.
And why not create a table that, if desired, becomes a game board for pastimes such as checkers or tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses)?
How would you like to make an outdoor coffee table?
