Poster tube side table for around 15 bucks

got an old cardboard tube, like the ones you get when you get a poster or a print?! make it a cute lil side table!

what you will need (what I used)

- MDF board

- cardboard tube

(mine was about 1 cm thick and the whole tube was about 10 cm wide they shoudn't be too small in terms of their radius, other wise you'll have trouble keeping them standing up)

- Yarn and a pencil maybe some paper if you want to make yourself a template and notes

- a long ruler

- jigsaw

- finishing nails & hammer

- paint of your choice

first I took a nail and hammered it in the middle of my board.

next I tied a string around it and tied the pencil on the other end - you get somewhat of a circle making tool this way.

I made my circle 60 cm wide - you shouldn't make it much bigger, since it tends to not stand up too well when having super skinny legs. if you want to make a bigger table top I would recommend using 3 or 4 legs.

I drew my circle shape and divided this in 16 pieces

then I started to draw the curved edge, once I had a curve I liked I took a piece of paper and made a template.

I made one "bump" per every line I drew before, so 16 bumps in total

that's how my table top looked

you will need two small pieces of wood for the legs later on, that's why I left some space at two sides

I began sawing the table top with the jigsaw

I went outside to spray paint the top since this needs some drying time

I used chalk paint wich dries super matte

then I measured the width of the inside of my cardboard tube - basically you want two pieces of wood that fit just inside the opening as snug as possible

so I took the width divided it in half to get the radius and drew two circles on the remaining wood

I cut these out as well

next I halved my cardboard tube to get two legs

you can use a jigsaw for this as well I used this Japanese hand saw because all my batteries were dead

once my paint was dry I took it inside again and tried a couple different positionings for the legs.

make sure they are pretty much centered but far enough away from each other to be able to hold the whole table.

I turned mine a few times around to really see how it would stand

then I marked where the legs would go

(I made another one of these tables before and put sand in zip lock bags into the legs and put lids at the bottoms - this way you get extra stability since the heaviest point of the table is at the bottom this way)

I screwed the wooden circles on at the positions where I marked the legs go

then I popped the legs over the wooden circles - they are completely hidden, that's why I didn't paint them

next step: you take your finishing nails and hammer them through the cardboard into the wood - this way the legs stay in place at all times

I spray painted a last coat after hammering all the nails in because you sometimes hit the cardboard wich can leave marks

and doooohoone

thanks to cosmo Lack for providing me with their paint