Sunday, February 3, 2013

How to Shorten a Table and Save Money

This post has been updated and can be found here

8 comments:

  1. Sarah, thank you so much for this post! I am getting ready to do the same thing to what is probably the same identical table you have in this picture. And for the same reason: child safety.

    So, my question is... obviously, we'll have to do this to the chairs as well. My husband thinks I am going to completely butcher the entire set. (He of little faith.) But I think it is doable...

    You know those stabilizing bars between the legs of the chairs? I'm wondering how I re-fit those after I've cut my chair legs down to size.

    Thanks to anyone who can help with this!

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  2. Hillary, I would not recommend cutting the chairs. I originally thought that I would be able to do it too, but if you look at the chairs, they are curved in order to counter-balance the weight of the person sitting on the seat and reclining against the back. If you cut the chairs, that curve will be too much for the new height of the chair that you cut it to and if you try to lean back against the back of the chair, you risk tipping over. I would just Craig's List the old chairs and purchase some new ones. I found some that were the exact same color as my table from an online site and they were X-back style....(I'll try to find the URL from where I ordered them and post it up here)....they have been great. They very much resemble some chairs from my favorite (barn of pottery...hee hee) store only I paid less than 100$ per chair that I had to assemble myself. So far, everyone who has seen my chop job and new chairs has liked it including the husband! The color of chairs I ordered was something like cappucino or chocolate brown.

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  3. I just wanted to give my input on our counter height table cut down. Ours looks almost identical to yours in the picture( with more milk stains and hand prints :) but we cut our chairs down as well and it came out perfect!!! Very sturdy and looks amazing.. Just saved some cash so thanks for te post!

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    1. Do you have pictures of your cut job for the chairs by chance? I'm looking at doing the same.

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    2. I didn't cut my chairs...it would have made the angle too unsafe. Instead, I bought chairs online that matched the color of my table. You can get them in packs of two and they are ready to go with a little assembly.

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  4. We are doing the same thing (for the same reason) and I would also love a pic of the chairs (if you have one), and would like to know how much height did you remove from the table?

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