Category: Customer Photos

Couch tables are a great way to provide living room table space without taking up a lot of room. Tucked closely behind the couch itself this style of table provides easy access to phones, glasses and drinks without hogging a lot of space on either side of the couch or breaking up a room the way a coffee table can. Even a thin couch table can provide an easily accessible horizontal surface as well as a surface for lighting, which is great for reading.

Nila’s table uses our original hairpin legs – a classic choice. As you can see the legs themselves are not positioned in the outermost corners of this table. That is one of the great benefits of making your own table – you can make it any way that suits you and the surface you are working with. Offsetting the legs on this table honors the individuality of the tabletop and highlights the curves and angles it brings to the table, pun intended.

Live edge tabletops create unique and gorgeous pieces of furniture that are always one of a kind. The dark and light colors in this piece of wood have been preserved by keeping the entire width of the log. They match the other colors in the room perfectly; drawing the space together. If you don’t have easy access to your own live edge slab simply look up your local sawmill or lumberyard and let them know what you are looking for. They can cut custom orders and may have a variety of wood types to offer. Before long you’ll be putting the finishing touches on your own hairpin leg table!

Every one of our hairpin legs and bench legs are made to order out of high quality materials – but that is just where the project begins. What truly makes our metal legs amazing is what our customers do with them. Your ingenuity and imagination is what brings each set of metal legs to life. Our hairpin legs can make a slab of wood into a table, desk, or stool. And just because we label our flat bar and tube steel metal legs as bench legs doesn’t mean they can’t be used for many other amazing projects.

Cora’s bookshelf proves this point perfectly. What an amazing work of art! Our bench legs are designed to hold up a substantial amount of weight and the thickness of these wooden slabs will hold up to the same challenge. What a perfect pairing for a bookshelf –anyone who has ever moved books knows, they can get heavy in a hurry. The slabs themselves are really beautiful and the dark metal of the wood nicely compliments them. Here’s what Cora had to say about the project:

I used live edge walnut slabs from Full Cycle Woodworks of Tennessee for this bookshelf unit with your fabu legs. Thanks very much — I’m in love with it.

We love it too, Cora. Thanks for sharing! Just like our hairpin legs, our bench legs are made of durable steel so you can rest assured they will give you outstanding performance. The flat bar bench legs used in this shelf come in standard bench leg sizes. They are made from 1-1/2” x ¼” steel and are 15” high. If you have a custom size in mind, drop us a line and we’ll let you know if it’s doable – chances are we’ll be able to accommodate. And don’t forget to send us a pic of your creation when you’re done, we’d love to see it!

Many of us wish we had space for our hobbies. It can feel like we need another room or a garage to properly organize our activity of choice. Megan showed us how her beautiful hairpin leg table has made sewing that much better. With a small amount of space and the right amount of table, her sewing room dream came to life! Not only does this hairpin leg table give Megan a place to enjoy herself, but it was also made by her loved ones.

My husband made this sewing table for me from barn wood that was re-claimed by himself and my father, from an early 1900’s barn located north of Atlanta, Georgia. I had been searching for hairpin legs and finally found your site! Was so pleased with them, and it was special to support a local artist from the state where I grew up!

We just loved these. Thank you so much!

Isn’t it wonderful to have a homemade table to sit down at when you are ready to sew? We’re so glad we could be a part of this project. Megan’s table points out how much character reclaimed wood brings to a project. This slab makes a perfect tabletop; it’s beautiful, holds the character of the barn from which it came, and serves the purpose she needed it to. The thickness of this tabletop allows it to span such a sizeable distance while maintaining its structural integrity. The durability of the metal legs will nicely support the tabletop itself along with all of the use it will endure. Thanks for sharing Megan, it’s an amazing table!

With so much mass manufactured furniture these days, custom made furniture is both unique and refreshing. Even when someone builds a piece of furniture from scratch, they don’t usually start with a tree! That is what David did when a tree fell at a friend’s place. Here’s what David has to say about his process:

When a grand oak tree fell in a friend’s back yard, my urge to reuse and create took over. The process involved drying and cutting the wood [then] curing the heavy slabs for 18 months. Then came the planing and sanding. With a coat of epoxy, a beautiful deep-grained custom bench was born. Your beefy tube-steel bench legs are the perfect compliment to the bench.

Thanks for sharing, David – what a treasure you’ve created! It can be a long process to start with a tree (or any raw wood) but the outcome was a piece of furniture that will last a lifetime and is truly unique to you.

If you are interested in undertaking a DIY furniture project but are not sure you have all of the equipment necessary, there are places that will help out with such a project. A local sawmill will be able to cut custom boards, for example, or sell you boards if you don’t have your own fallen tree. The bench legs David chose are also a great choice. Of course, we have many styles of hairpin legs to choose from, but with this solid dense bench not only will the bench legs be sure to hold up all the weight, but they nicely compliment the solid look and feel of the oak itself.

Great job David!

It goes without saying that we love to see how our metal legs are used. One of the biggest movements of the day that we fully support is reclaimed building materials. Be it a repurposed pallet or refurbished tabletop, seeing our hairpin legs and angle iron legs give old materials new life is fantastic! Michael at Belle Creek Wood Working made this beautiful table with reclaimed barn boards. Michael says

Reclaimed wood is a bold product to work with for a table as it warps all over the place once cut, but I was up for the challenge.

Michael points out that making a table with metal legs can be for anyone from the home handyperson to a professional woodworker. Depending on your level of comfort and expertise you can take on different difficulty levels in your projects. Michael had some good ideas on how to work with reclaimed boards:

The difficult part of working with this wood is in the need to make the wood as flat as possible without sanding or planning top wood where all the patina is from the grey’d barn wood. Once you actual sand the back of the wood to flatten the bottom the wood looks down right ugly, so you’ve got to keep the grey in tact.

I ran a series of passes through my Dewalt planner to cut 1/8″ at a time off the bottom of the wood, then a trip through my table saw to make 4″ and 2″ wide planks. I laid the wood gray side up on the table, swapping each piece until I had the right look with the various width planks. Finally turned each piece upside down and glued those bad boys together.

The tabletop looks excellent! When looking for a tabletop that holds onto the original character of the wood these irregularities are perfect. Michael contacted us about getting some custom height angle iron legs and we were able to get him what he needed. That is the great thing about our hairpin legs and angle iron legs all being made to order – it is easier for us to meet custom requests whenever possible. Thank you for sharing Michael, great table!