Building A Wooden Kitchen Countertop

Remove your old countertop.

Building a wooden kitchen countertop.

Keep in mind the wood my husband used to build out countertop is a soft wood spanish cedar selected to match the previous countertop. How to make a diy wood countertop and how i gave it a tiny bit of aging too. First of all pick your wood. After this i ran it through the planer a couple of times on the ends to get it straight.

I suppose that making a wooden countertop is even easier in case you have some wood working skills. An end grain butcher block countertop is made by joining several parallel strips that are an inch and a half to two inches wide. Use the tape measure to get the dimensions of the countertop area in your kitchen. Work slowly and carefully to ensure that you do not wreck the cabinetry.

I had some beautiful rough sawn maple on hand so that s what i. Don chose to make the countertop in one large unit including the hole where the. Decide what wood you would like to use. I m back today to share another tutorial for the recently completed coastal farmhouse laundry.

There are quite a few. How to make a wooden countertop step 1. The greater the number of boards you join the more stable your finished countertop will be. The easiest way is to take some wooden planks measure them cut send and arrange in a countertop.

Find boards that have a width around 6 as a standard counter should be made up of at least four boards to remain stable. Measure the counter with a measuring tape once it is removed. It will be far easier to take the dimensions once it is. Then draw or create a template by taping several sheets of paper together.

It s so much easier than you thought. Record the length width and depth on a piece of paper. The design template will give you a rough cutout of the counter space and aid you when you make your initial cuts of wood. You can also make a small countertop to cover the space near the sink or just in the corner save some space and use every inch.