Making a sofa table~

 I'd like to pretend that I had this project all planned out in my head, but I have to be honest. I had no idea what I was doing. I just kind of went with the flow.  My only goal was to create some sort of a sofa table without spending any money. I could only use what I could find in the garage.

I started with 4' ripped 2X4's. Painted them different colors and wiped them with stain.   

 Mostly for looks, I tacked a couple of cross beams to the top.

I used thinner boards to create a support box. The pieces are 45'' and 10'' long.

As luck would have it, I happened to have 4 legs that I bought in the AS-IS section of Ikea about a year ago. I had totally forgotten about them, so it was a pretty sweet surprise. The garage fairies must have been smiling down on me! The legs were only a buck a piece at the time, so I couldn't pass them up. I unscrewed the double sided screws with pliers and nailed the legs onto my table.

I wasn't really paying attention to the SIZE of the legs, which were countertop height. The table looked like a sick giraffe with those suckers, so I decided to add some more stuff.

I made 2 more boxes using the same measurements that I used for the first support box and tacked them around the legs.

Then I put a couple of 2X2's across the bottom to make a crate type of box.

All that was left was paint!

I was pretty excited that I could fit books inside of it:) That's handy.

Now I have a place to put a lamp, an extra bookshelf and I didn't have to spend a dime! 

Yay for wood shop/garage scraps!!!!