Table That Husband Designed and Built

For those who don’t know, my hubby is a man of many talents and one of them is woodworking. As we constantly moved during our military careers and never knew what kind of a house/apartment we would be in for the next assignment, it was difficult for him to have many of the tools he required to do complicated projects. Now that we have settled for a period of time, he has been able to acquire more of those tools and later in the fall, the garage will undergo the upgrade to become an even better workshop for him.

Despite not having an ideal space, he has designed and created several custom pieces that include drawers and doors and when we decided to have a “pub” table, we talked about different options. Since we also had a large quantity of wine corks left after he’d done some wine cork projects, we blended the two ideas. The result is a table that he designed and built with the top being recessed, filled with corks and layers of an epoxy applied to give it a smooth surface and protect it. It was quite labor intensive and the epoxy process was drawn out because it required multiple “pours”, each of which had to set for several hours and the final pour had to cure for 2 or 3 days before you could set anything on top of it.

It is the perfect addition for the way that we live and it was definitely a interesting experience for him.