This chunky leg farmhouse table is one of our latest projects. I was long overdue for building a new dining room table, so I finally decided to knock this project out over the holidays.
The legs are 5″ x 5″ chunky farmhouse legs from Osborne Wood in Georgia. The 1×4 skirt boards are attached to the legs using mortise and tenon joinery and wooden corner brackets for extra stability. I used extra deep, 1 1/2″ tenons to provide extra gluing surface to add even more strength to the joints knowing the table top was going to be heavy.
The top of this chunky farmhouse dining table is built from standard construction grade 2x material. It consists of two 2x12s cut in half and trimmed down to 59″ in length. I also ripped them down to 10″ in width to create a final total width of the table of 40″. They are joined together with floating tenons and wood glue. After they were joined, I routed a 1/2″ x 1/2″ tongue on each end.
The breadboard ends are made from a 2×8, ripped to 7″ wide and cut to 40″ in length. I then cut a matching 1/2″ x 1/2″ dado in the each to allow them to be joined to the 2×12 top. The top was then sanded with 120 grit, and then 180 grit sandpaper. I attached the top to the table skirt with z-clips to allow for expansion and contraction of the construction lumber.
We wanted to do something a little different than the standard wood top and distressed white legs look for this chunky leg farmhouse table. So we used a custom stain and paint blend my wife came up with and had previously used on our black pipe desk for the top. Once the blend dried we used a liquid wax to give the top a softer feel. We then decided to paint the legs a dark navy blue color with a medium sheen. We love the colonial look this combination provides, and think it looks great with the flat panel wainscoting we built in the dining room a few years ago. Now we just need to get a few more antique chairs to replace some of the ones still hanging on from our previous dining room set, and maybe also add an area rug.
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