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Glass table do it yourself. Glass table with your own glasses table with your own hands

Glass tables look appropriate in any interior. Their elegant and air appearance does not overload space, visually leaving the room spacious and unlocked. From such a material like glass, you can make a serving, magazine, computer or even a dining table, and make the design is quite possible with your own hands.

Such interior items differ in form, design and execution materials. As for the geometry of the table top, the glass of glass happens:

  • round;
  • rectangular;
  • triangular;
  • square;
  • oval;
  • have an unusual curly shape.

Depending on constructive features, distinguish such types of tables:

  • transformer;
  • table with lower shelf;
  • sliding table;
  • mobile design;
  • monolithic table and others.

Such furniture can also be manufactured from various types of glass. For example, the coffee table is made of black, hardened, tinted, matte, transparent glass, or from a triplex.

A variety of execution is distinguished not only by table tops, but also a prestole and legs of structures. The most common option is the materials like wood or chrome metal. Very richly and sophisticated forged tables with glass, which are chosen for interiors in a classic style. Rattan's table with glass looks simpler, but fits well into most of the designs.

Pros and Cons Glass Designs

The positive qualities of glass tables include such:

  • beauty, accuracy, ease of appearance;
  • the ability to enter a similar element of furniture in almost any design;
  • ease of care, hygienicity, environmental friendliness;
  • sufficient strength;
  • resistance to chemical media, moisture and temperature conditions of the environment.

Among the minuses of glass tables should be called the following features:

  • on the glass often there are divorces from water or incorrectly selected care products;
  • poor-quality or cheap material quickly scratches;
  • on the glass often remain traces from fingers;
  • with neakkurat handling, you can get fractures and chips, and even smash the table at all;
  • finished designs are not cheap.

Make a glass of glass with your own hands

Preparatory stage

Having decided to make a glass table itself, you probably decided in advance with its location and role. Depending on where this subject of the interior will be placed and what function it will perform, the pre-sketch should be done on paper, taking into account the characteristics of the room in which you put the table. On the sketch you need to specify the table top and the placement of the legs.

To make a glass table, prepare such materials and tools:

  • glass thickness from 6 to 12 mm;
  • special glue for glass;
  • cleaning agent;
  • acetone;
  • fire or emery bar;
  • legs for design;
  • suction cups for legs;
  • sunflower oil;
  • phaneur or chipboard, on which you will cut the glass;
  • paste for polishing material;
  • marker or marker;
  • line and roulette;
  • glass cutter;
  • rubber head hammer;
  • rag;
  • protective glasses and gloves;
  • bulgarian with grinding circle.

In this paper, only clean and dry glass should be used, on which there is no dust and other, even the smallest, pollution. You can clean the material with a simple solution of food soda using a soft rag. If the glass remains dirty, it can get off the noise line.

Cutting the glass is more conveniently on a large sheet of plywood or chipboard, and the material should come into contact with the table with almost no gaps and pressed as close as possible.

Coffee table made of glass and metal, photo:

Features cutting glass

The glass is more convenient to cut the glass on a thin and long metal line, and you can draw the line in advance to the felt-tip pen, so that it is later a glass cutter on it. If you are a novice in a similar matter, it is better to practice on an unnecessary piece of glass, and then proceed to creating a table.

Note that the line that you will be cut the glass cutter is desirable to perform at once, and so that the tool worked easier and better slid, it is necessary to lubricate it with vegetable oil. When working with diamond glass cutter, a very thin and almost imperceptible line remains on the material. Putting the glass to the edge of the table so that this line coincides with it, the material broke through the end of the outbreak. Pressing force should be approximately 2 kg. Breaking the glass must be in protective gloves, so as not to cut your hands, and your eyes must be protected with glasses.

After you break the bulk of the glass, sharp protrusions or extra pieces can remain on the cut. You can remove them with pliers, put on special rubber lining. If there are no such lines, use paper folded in several layers.

The glass cutting is made from the far edge, making a fairly strong pressure on the glass cutter. If you work as a sharp tool, but no inclination does not work, lubricate the kerosene disk and spend the same line several times. If you are not sure that the incision turned out the desired depth, turn the glass to the back side and do the procedure again.

If you make a round coffee table with glass or work with any other complex curvilinear forms, for convenience the easiest way to use the stencil. Cutting the circle according to the stencil, swipe from it with a glass cutter rays and shake the glass in parts.

Reinforced glass cut in a special way. Initially, the smooth side is carried out with glass cutter, and then with the help of a sharp tool, a deep lust up to the grid is sprinkled. After that, the glass is turned over to the opposite side and bleed along the end line. The grid is snacking or cut off.

Table top processing

After cutting along the rim on the glass, sharp protrusions that should be removed are often left. At the production of ends treatment on special machines, under the domestic conditions for a similar purpose, you can use fir-handed tools. Please note that for such work you will also need to protect your hands with dense cotton gloves or mittens.

Clean the sections of the sections can be a file or emery bars. A file in the process of performing manipulations should be periodically wetted in a turpite or in kerosene. When working with thin glass you need to be very neat.

The next step is polished the ends, for which the grinder with grinding circle is used. The speed of the grinder should be small and reach 1200-1700 revolutions per minute, so that the glass has not overheated. The first occasion should be used coarse paper, then change it into a smaller one, and the final stage can be pulled out the ends of the fine-grained paper. In the process of operation, glass can be wedged with water. You can achieve a special smoothness using a felt circle or a special paste for polishing the glass.

To make a tabletop more attractive and unusual, there are several ways to decorate the glass. Methods are very often used:

  • decoupage;
  • etching glass;
  • applying sandblasting pattern;
  • toning;
  • printing images;
  • stained glass drawing;
  • use double glasses with decorative layers of flowers, stones, seashells, coffee beans and other elements.

Decoupage and stained-in painting are made from the "inside" table tops, so that the drawing is not damaged during operation. In addition to the above methods, the glass table can be decorated with decorative illumination, which looks very effectively, especially in the dark.

Fixation of legs

Before mounting the legs in each of them, it is necessary to make a hole from the end side. These holes are needed in order to fix special suction cups in them. For greater strength, the sucker is planting on glue.

While the glue dries, the marker is placed on the tabletop, where the legs will be mounted. In these zones, it is necessary to degrease the surface with acetone or gasoline.

As for glue, in the manufacture of a glass table, use the composition used for mirrors is not recommended, since it dries long and shines through the transparent surface. For a glass table, it is better to purchase special high-quality glue. In the Russian market you can find 2 popular varieties of such materials: the compositions "Glass-glass" and "glass-metal". For the polymerization of such adhesion, it is necessary to affect the ultraviolet lamp.

The legs are glued to the table one. Initially, the element is lubricated, placed it to a predetermined place, they are waiting for about 30-60 seconds, after which they direct the ultraviolet lamp to this section and leave so far to the total polymerization of the composition.

Since after the final frosting of the glue to dismantle the legs will not be possible, their locations should be noted very carefully.

The coffee table from glass requires special operating conditions. First of all, we note that you need to handle it carefully, trying not to smash the countertop. Caring for such a table does not represent anything complicated, glass needs from time to time to simply wipe the microfiber with a soft, using a tool for washing windows.

On the glass table, scratches sometimes appear. Fix the similar defect will help a special paste of Goe. It is fillaped to the state of very shallow crumbs, they are applied to a piece of cotton wool, wand or tampon, after which the damaged surface is polished. Do not do strong push. Scratch is processed within 15 seconds, then the paste is erased and repeat the procedure again. In some cases, the number of approaches can be large.

There are other ways to eliminate or disguise scratches on the glass. You can purchase a "polar" or its analogue in the store, you can use a simple toothpaste, although its efficiency is much lower. You can disguise damage and with the help of an ordinary transparent nail polish.

To prevent the appearance of scratches, the glass table is better putting napkins or small bamboo mats.

Coffee tables from glass, photo:


Glass table with their own hands. Video

First of all, decide what type of table, you want to do. It can be a dining table, a bedside table or a bedside table, and maybe a coffee table. In our case, we will make a small peeling table for the living room.

All further work work is best done in the courtyard or on the site near the house.

Carefully consider your outdoor vase, its dimensions should be at least 40-45 centimeters in height and somewhere 80-90 centimeters in diameter.

In any case, in each supermarket, you can easily choose the product that fully meets the necessary requirements. Your vase can be made of clay, stone, ceramics, concrete or plastics. However, if you have to do with plastic vase, it will be necessary to add gravel or marine pebbles to impart stability. And if the vase is transparent, you will give the pedestal to a rather original and colorful look.

In our case, a circular tempered glass is used with a thickness of at least 12 mm and about 110-115 centimeters in diameter. You can buy corporate factory glass or see, say, in the garage pieces of glasses, which have not been needed for a long time, but perfectly suitable for your needs. With this piece, you can contact the workshop, where employees will do it, or try to cope with this task themselves. Then ask the wizards rounded the edge of the table top with one or two sides, depending on your desire.

What glass is best suited for the table?

In principle, for the manufacture of a table, almost all known types of glass will be suitable:

  • Smoky
  • Transparent
  • Toned
  • Matte
  • Color glass, which combines well with a common room interior.

What are the safety rules when working with glass?

Of course, while working with such a complex material as glass, you are not important for you and do not harm your health.

If you decide to work yourself with glass and cut it with glass cutter, be sure to use protective glasses and wear thick working gloves.

During the transportation of glass from the store, make sure that it is correctly packed, necessarily with the attachment of foam pads. They will protect the glass from the split when shaking in the car.

How is the direct manufacturing process

Place the floor in the center of the recreation area of \u200b\u200byour living room. It can be located near the sofa or not far from the rest chairs, the word - at any place convenient for you.

Attach the finished tabletop on the stand and adjust its position so that it lay exactly in the middle. After that, set it aside and apply silicone transparent glue. Distribute evenly on the neck of your vase glue, imposing it with round balls, which should be at least six.

Then put the countertop by your tags. To make places of gluing guaranteed "grabbed", put something heavy in the center on the glass. Give the glue to dry, before starting to use the table.

On the bottom of the vase, you can put glass fragments and highlighting, type of christmas garlands. Then night the garland will illuminate fragments, which their highlights through a glass countertop will create a mysterious atmosphere in your living room.

Glass tables are invariably distinguished by their attractiveness and sophistication. They are able to give any interior, regardless of what style it was decorated, freshness and presentability. If in the near future your plans do not include the purchase of additional furniture, should not be upset. It is not too difficult to make the table from glass, and therefore even a novice master will be able to cope with the task. If you follow the instructions shown below, you can create a table with your own hands, providing it with a neat glass plate tabletop.

A variety of models is large enough, and therefore before the start of work you need to decide which option you need. If we consider the functional purpose, then the following types of tables can be distinguished:

  • magazine;
  • writing;
  • kitchen;
  • computer.

Written desk dining table computer desk coffee table

Determine not only the purpose, but also other furniture parameters before collecting a glass table. Products differ in shape. The model may have a round, square, rectangular or non-standard form.

Of course, if you are considered a novice master, it will be better to choose a simpler option to make the glass table to be successful. Use the finished drawing to simplify the task and do not make a mistake.

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What do you need to work?

To create a glass table with your own hands, it is successful, you need to purchase or prepare the following materials:

  • glass leaf. Suitable as ordinary and special glass, the main thing is that the thickness of the plate is at least 6 mm;
  • legs. The masters believe that chrome-plated metal blanks are best suitable in this situation;
  • fixtures for fastening legs;
  • glue for performing special works. Such a substance is suitable for connecting a glass surface and a metal element. It is important that after full frost he maintained transparency;
  • stacker, instead of which is allowed to apply a special means for grinding glass surfaces;
  • gasoline (as an option - acetone);
  • wood-chipboard or plywood sheet, which is then needed to ensure an even location of the glass plate.

It is impossible to perform work without having the following devices at hand:

  • a ruler for measuring;
  • marker (or simple pencil);
  • device for cutting glass;
  • glasses and gloves that are able to provide protection when performing work;
  • hammer with rubber nozzle;
  • drill;
  • grinding machine;
  • file;
  • felt circle intended for polishing.

How to make a glass table with your own hands?

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If you are interested in how to make the table, follow the instructions below:

  1. Cut the worktop and process its edges. That the result pleased you, make sure that the glass is located on a flat surface can use the glass cutting table if there is such an opportunity. Before working with glass, we owe it, removing extraneous particles, and polish. The fact is that even the smallest pieces of dirt can make it difficult to work on cutting. If you do not prepare the surface properly, then you risk do an uneven cut. Pencil or marker perform marking on the bottom. Place the line on top of the line. Apply glass cutting to cut the material on the marks made. Note that with the hardware cutting equipment is not very easy, and therefore it is better to practice unnecessary glass elements. Carefully catching up the cut line, separate the cut section. Put on gloves, performing this job to avoid injury.
  2. Carefully treat the extreme parts of the glass blank using special tools for this purpose. First, remove the largest uneven areas, applying the file, and then take the grinding machine and sandpaper to perform a quality work. Do not neglect the safety technique and wear glasses capable of protecting organs of vision from foreign particles. Remove the sharp edges by starting with the largest irregularities and completing the smallest flaws. Give the desired shape with a glass plate. Police the edges of the workpiece, using a special paste and felt circle. So the countertop will look more aesthetic.
  3. The assembly process requires increased attention. First flip the product, and then mark the markup by defining the places in which the legs will be. In the upper part of the product, drill holes to fix the sucker, apply a bit of adhesive composition and assemble individual design elements. Repeat the procedure by taking 3 the following legs. As a rule, it is enough to firmly attach one detail to the other. However, to make reliability compound, experts use a special adhesive composition. To make the finished product look presentable and carefully, you need to choose to be correct than to glue. It is important that after frozen it remained completely transparent and did not spoil the type of leg. Fully assembled tables must look carefully even with closest studies.
  4. If you wish, you can make furniture more mobile. The table on the wheels is always featured by ease of use and its practicality. When carrying out cleaning, you will be easily moved from place to place. To make your own hands on the rollers, follow the instructions suggested above. Having made a product according to this scheme, work over it with legs. Choose suitable accessories (if you wish, you can take rollers from the old skateboard, which is no longer used). Make sure that they are located at a distance of 100 mm from the edge and were fixed strictly parallel to the straps.

Glass tables look appropriate in any interior. Their elegant and air appearance does not overload space, visually leaving the room spacious and unlocked. From such a material like glass, you can make a serving, magazine, computer or even a dining table, and make the design is quite possible with your own hands.

Types of glass tables

Such interior items differ in form, design and execution materials. As for the geometry of the table top, the glass of glass happens:

  • round;
  • rectangular;
  • triangular;
  • square;
  • oval;
  • have an unusual curly shape.

Depending on constructive features, distinguish such types of tables:

  • transformer;
  • table with lower shelf;
  • sliding table;
  • mobile design;
  • monolithic table and others.

Such furniture can also be manufactured from various types of glass. For example, the coffee table is made of black, hardened, tinted, matte, transparent glass, or from a triplex.

A variety of execution is distinguished not only by table tops, but also a prestole and legs of structures. The most common option is the materials like wood or chrome metal. Very richly and sophisticated forged tables with glass, which are chosen for interiors in a classic style. Rattan's table with glass looks simpler, but fits well into most of the designs.

Pros and Cons Glass Designs

The positive qualities of glass tables include such:

  • beauty, accuracy, ease of appearance;
  • the ability to enter a similar element of furniture in almost any design;
  • ease of care, hygienicity, environmental friendliness;
  • sufficient strength;
  • resistance to chemical media, moisture and temperature conditions of the environment.

Among the minuses of glass tables should be called the following features:

  • on the glass often there are divorces from water or incorrectly selected care products;
  • poor-quality or cheap material quickly scratches;
  • on the glass often remain traces from fingers;
  • with neakkurat handling, you can get fractures and chips, and even smash the table at all;
  • finished designs are not cheap.

Make a glass of glass with your own hands

Preparatory stage

Having decided to make a glass table itself, you probably decided in advance with its location and role. Depending on where this subject of the interior will be placed and what function it will perform, the pre-sketch should be done on paper, taking into account the characteristics of the room in which you put the table. On the sketch you need to specify the table top and the placement of the legs.

To make a glass table, prepare such materials and tools:

  • glass thickness from 6 to 12 mm;
  • special glue for glass;
  • cleaning agent;
  • acetone;
  • fire or emery bar;
  • legs for design;
  • suction cups for legs;
  • sunflower oil;
  • phaneur or chipboard, on which you will cut the glass;
  • paste for polishing material;
  • marker or marker;
  • line and roulette;
  • glass cutter;
  • rubber head hammer;
  • rag;
  • protective glasses and gloves;
  • bulgarian with grinding circle.

In this paper, only clean and dry glass should be used, on which there is no dust and other, even the smallest, pollution. You can clean the material with a simple solution of food soda using a soft rag. If the glass remains dirty, it can get off the noise line.

Cutting the glass is more conveniently on a large sheet of plywood or chipboard, and the material should come into contact with the table with almost no gaps and pressed as close as possible.

Coffee table made of glass and metal, photo:

Features cutting glass

The glass is more convenient to cut the glass on a thin and long metal line, and you can draw the line in advance to the felt-tip pen, so that it is later a glass cutter on it. If you are a novice in a similar matter, it is better to practice on an unnecessary piece of glass, and then proceed to creating a table.

Note that the line that you will be cut the glass cutter is desirable to perform at once, and so that the tool worked easier and better slid, it is necessary to lubricate it with vegetable oil. When working with diamond glass cutter, a very thin and almost imperceptible line remains on the material. Putting the glass to the edge of the table so that this line coincides with it, the material broke through the end of the outbreak. Pressing force should be approximately 2 kg. Breaking the glass must be in protective gloves, so as not to cut your hands, and your eyes must be protected with glasses.

After you break the bulk of the glass, sharp protrusions or extra pieces can remain on the cut. You can remove them with pliers, put on special rubber lining. If there are no such lines, use paper folded in several layers.

The glass cutting is made from the far edge, making a fairly strong pressure on the glass cutter. If you work as a sharp tool, but no inclination does not work, lubricate the kerosene disk and spend the same line several times. If you are not sure that the incision turned out the desired depth, turn the glass to the back side and do the procedure again.

If you make a round coffee table with glass or work with any other complex curvilinear forms, for convenience the easiest way to use the stencil. Cutting the circle according to the stencil, swipe from it with a glass cutter rays and shake the glass in parts.

Reinforced glass cut in a special way. Initially, the smooth side is carried out with glass cutter, and then with the help of a sharp tool, a deep lust up to the grid is sprinkled. After that, the glass is turned over to the opposite side and bleed along the end line. The grid is snacking or cut off.

Table top processing

After cutting along the rim on the glass, sharp protrusions that should be removed are often left. At the production of ends treatment on special machines, under the domestic conditions for a similar purpose, you can use fir-handed tools. Please note that for such work you will also need to protect your hands with dense cotton gloves or mittens.

Clean the sections of the sections can be a file or emery bars. A file in the process of performing manipulations should be periodically wetted in a turpite or in kerosene. When working with thin glass you need to be very neat.

The next step is polished the ends, for which the grinder with grinding circle is used. The speed of the grinder should be small and reach 1200-1700 revolutions per minute, so that the glass has not overheated. The first occasion should be used coarse paper, then change it into a smaller one, and the final stage can be pulled out the ends of the fine-grained paper. In the process of operation, glass can be wedged with water. You can achieve a special smoothness using a felt circle or a special paste for polishing the glass.

To make a tabletop more attractive and unusual, there are several ways to decorate the glass. Methods are very often used:

  • decoupage;
  • etching glass;
  • applying sandblasting pattern;
  • toning;
  • printing images;
  • stained glass drawing;
  • use double glasses with decorative layers of flowers, stones, seashells, coffee beans and other elements.

Decoupage and stained-in painting are made from the "inside" table tops, so that the drawing is not damaged during operation. In addition to the above methods, the glass table can be decorated with decorative illumination, which looks very effectively, especially in the dark.

Fixation of legs

Before mounting the legs in each of them, it is necessary to make a hole from the end side. These holes are needed in order to fix special suction cups in them. For greater strength, the sucker is planting on glue.

While the glue dries, the marker is placed on the tabletop, where the legs will be mounted. In these zones, it is necessary to degrease the surface with acetone or gasoline.

As for glue, in the manufacture of a glass table, use the composition used for mirrors is not recommended, since it dries long and shines through the transparent surface. For a glass table, it is better to purchase special high-quality glue. In the Russian market you can find 2 popular varieties of such materials: the compositions "Glass-glass" and "glass-metal". For the polymerization of such adhesion, it is necessary to affect the ultraviolet lamp.

The legs are glued to the table one. Initially, the element is lubricated, placed it to a predetermined place, they are waiting for about 30-60 seconds, after which they direct the ultraviolet lamp to this section and leave so far to the total polymerization of the composition.

Since after the final frosting of the glue to dismantle the legs will not be possible, their locations should be noted very carefully.

The coffee table from glass requires special operating conditions. First of all, we note that you need to handle it carefully, trying not to smash the countertop. Caring for such a table does not represent anything complicated, glass needs from time to time to simply wipe the microfiber with a soft, using a tool for washing windows.

On the glass table, scratches sometimes appear. Fix the similar defect will help a special paste of Goe. It is fillaped to the state of very shallow crumbs, they are applied to a piece of cotton wool, wand or tampon, after which the damaged surface is polished. Do not do strong push. Scratch is processed within 15 seconds, then the paste is erased and repeat the procedure again. In some cases, the number of approaches can be large.

There are other ways to eliminate or disguise scratches on the glass. You can purchase a "polar" or its analogue in the store, you can use a simple toothpaste, although its efficiency is much lower. You can disguise damage and with the help of an ordinary transparent nail polish.

To prevent the appearance of scratches, the glass table is better putting napkins or small bamboo mats.

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You will need

  • - paper, pencil and felt-tumbler;
  • - sheet of glass required size;
  • - glass cutter;
  • - a piece of welding wire and a piece of usual;
  • - line;
  • - refined vegetable oil;
  • - grinding bar;
  • - glue for connecting glass and wood;
  • - Wooden feet for the table;
  • - acetone;
  • - Suckers for fastening legs.

Instruction

Draw a sketch of the future table. To do this, first plan, in which part of the apartment it will be placed, for what purpose will be used (coffee table or dining), in which style it must be completed to fit the interior of the room.

Perform a drawing of the product. Draw a countertop: specify the width, length and thickness of the planned part, specify the location of the table of the table.

Perform the necessary preparations. If you perform such work for the first time, pre-adjust the level of pressing: push the glass cutter on the scales, so that they show the weight of 2 kg - with such a press cut the glass in the future. Put the glass on a dense fabric. Under the supposed glass break line, put a thin rod or a piece of welding wire with a diameter of 2-3 mm. Put on the glass ruler, so that the cut line passed 2-3 mm from the edge of the line.

Moisten the cutting wheel in vegetable oil. Start cutting from the far edge of the canvas, swipe the glass cutter once with a uniform pressure, and immediately bother the extra piece of glass. If this is not done, the crystalline glass structure can recover again after it is disruption of glass cutter, and the edge will not be even. When the countertop is cut, stick the edges with a silicon grinding bar.

For each leg, do the following: Drill the hole and secure the suction cup in it using glue. Wait for the glue dry, degrease the plots to which the feet of the table will be attached. Note on the surface of the table of the attachment of the legs, using a felt-tip pen. Gently secure the legs with the suction cup.

Video on the topic

note

Getting Started with glass edge processing, be sure to wear cotton gloves. It will save hands from glass crumbs and cuts.

Helpful advice

To give the table of originality, cut a few holes of different diameters along one of the edges. Remove the opening of a small diameter first, fasten one end of the wire in it, fix the glass cutter to another end, and ride the circle. Then, using a ruler, spend several radii from the opening to the circumference line. Take the glass and easily hit the hammer handle from the reverse side of the cutting area, the extra parts will fall out. Treat the edges of the opening.