DIY Farmhouse Table Plan!
Even though we’re not 100% finished with our dining room, I wanted to make sure you all had access to our farmhouse dining room table plans that I had promised.
The plans were inspired by an expensive Restoration Hardware farmhouse table. The only thing we did completely different from the original plan was the finish. Can you guess what I used?? CHALK PAINT! (I’m a little obsessed!) Recipe can be found here. After the table was assembled, I stained it with a dark wood stain and then painted it with my chalk paint recipe, sanded, and then waxed with furniture wax (we did two coats on the top to protect the table from food and drinks). The sanding was the fun part–the underlying stain came through beautifully. (I used a handheld electric sander).
Good luck!

MATERIALS AND TOOLS
Weathered Stain
Varnish or Finish Oil
8 – 2x4s (should be about $2 a stick)
6 – 2x2s (should be about $1 a stick)
1 – 2×8 (should be about $6)
7 – 2x6s (should be about $2.50 each)
2 3/4″ Screws (About 100)
4″ Screws (About 20)
CUT LIST
A) 4 – 2×4 @ 28 1/2″ (Outside Legs)
B) 4 – 2×4 @ 28 1/2″ (Inside Legs)
C) 2 -2×4 @ 34 1/2″ (Bottom End Supports for the Stretcher)
D) 1 – 2×4 @ 81″ (Stretcher)
E) 2 – 2×4 @ 81″ (Side Aprons)
F) 2 – 2×4 @ 28 1/2″ (End Aprons)
G) 2 – 2×2 @ 28 1/2″ (Overhang Supports, Ends)
H) 2 – 2×2 @ 78″ (Overhang Supports, Sides)
I) 10 – 2×2 @ 28 1/2″ (Under Tabletop Supports)
J) 2 – 2×8 @ 38 1/2″ (Breadboard Ends)
K) 7 – 2×6 @ 81″ (Tabletop Pieces)
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Always use glue. Use the longest possible screws, and predrill with a countersink bit to hide the screw heads.
STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 4
STEP 5
STEP 6
Screw the support, C, into the legs, as shown above. Make sure you use 2 screws on the inside leg and 2 screws on the outside legs per side of the end supports.
NOTE: If you would like the support to be on the outside, rotate the legs, keeping the inside legs on the inside, and add 4″ to your stretcher, D. This will reduce your leg room for end chairs, but the notch out will be more visible, like my table and the Restoration Hardware table.
STEP 8
STEP 9
Fit the apron frame into the base of the table as shown above. Use the long screws to screw at an angle through the apron into the legs. Use 3 screws per leg on all legs. Lots of glue here.
Now is a good time to check your table for square. Visit the HOW-TO section if you do not know how to check for square.
STEP 10
STEP 11
STEP 13
STEP 14
STEP 15
Then begin adding the tabletop pieces K, starting with the center piece, as shown below. Screw the center board in place on the ends through the top, predrilled and marked in step 15. Then from the underside of the table, screw through the tabletop supports, I, into the underside of the tabletop boards, K.
STEP 16
Add the next tabletop boards, K, as shown below. As you screw each board down, take special care to line up the edges with the existing boards. You do not want a gap between the boards on the tabletop. Remember to screw through the top on the ends and then screw through the bottomof the under supports to the underside of the tabletop boards.
STEP 17
After all the boards are screwed in place, then use the long screws to screw through the tabletop boards into the breadboard ends, as shown above.
STEP 18
Make sure you have adequately screwed your table together, as shown above.
STEP 19
Here are some dimensions.
FINISHING INSTRUCTIONS



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This is amazing!!! I love it so much!! Great job!
Whoa! That’s amazing! I want to see your house!! And baby girl! Of course, after she’s born.
Hey Christina!
Great plans! I can’t wait to start this! I don’t know if it’s my computer or what, but there aren’t diagram pics for steps 16-19.
I have been searching for your smaller table plans that attach to your larger table. Want to make this today, is there anyway we can get that. I so want to do the smaller one first my kitchen is in desperate need of that.
Thank you