My Grandpa & I Built Our Own Homemade Dining Room Set
We've needed a new dining room set for some time now. We had a decent table, but mismatched chairs, and it didn't really match any of the other furniture we had. So we went looking around at furniture stores. I couldn't believe how much money they charged for particle board, crappy furniture. It was well over $1,000 dollars.
Around the same time, my 81 year old Grandpa began doing some woodworking again. Wanting to pick up on some of his knowledge, I asked if we could build me a dining room set.
Now when I say we, I use that pretty loosely. I came down a couple of days and helped put the table top and legs together. Which was pretty cool to learn, and it took some patience.
Here's a few pictures of us doing the table.
And we put our names on the bottom, too.
From their he basically hand built the ladder back style chairs. My mom and I upholstered them using some fabric and foam.
And the final product looks and works great. Plus it's significantly cheaper and better quality.