View beneath the tabletop.
Attaching hairpin legs to table.
The beauty of hairpin legs is you can use them to create your own furniture using almost any kind of wood you can get your hands on from manmade boards to reclaimed wood such as old doors pallets floorboards cable reel tops to natural slabs.
Instead hairpin legs attach directly to the underside of the table top.
The hairpin legs come with the bracket attached all as one piece of each hairpin leg.
It s as easy as it looks.
Casey and bridget each decided to create their own using hairpin legs.
Because there are no aprons and to keep the tabletop flat and supported think about adding wood cleats just inside the hairpin legs.
Find the wood for your table.
This post has two fantastic how to tutorials to follow and the end result is amazing.
Attach the hairpin legs with the screws provided.
Please note that the screws provid ed are the proper length for 3 4 to 1 25 thick tops.
Perhaps the easiest tabletop or desktop to work with is a wooden surface with metal hairpin legs we recommend wood screws for the project.
Learn how to and how not to create a diy table with hairpin legs.
Hairpin tables however have no aprons.
The perfect side table can be hard to find.
This bracket has pre made holes in it to accommodate screws for the underside of the furniture.
Mark the positions of the holes in the mounting plate with a marker.
Visit our youtube page for inspiration and steps on how to pain.