![]() Best of all, when both ends are down, it is just 12.75″ long – super skinny! When just one end is up, it is 36.5″ long. It is 31.5″ wide, and when it is opened fully with both ends up, it’s 60″ long. Without changes, the Norden table is 29″ tall. It also has drawer storage on the ends, and comes in white, or birch. The beauty of the Norden table is that it is a gate-leg table that can have both ends up, just one, or none. Then I stumbled on a few versions of the IKEA Norden dining table that had been adapted into a cutting table. I’d love to have the space and permanence of something like that some day, but it wouldn’t work for my current needs. This produced a table with similar depth and heft of a cutting table at a fabric shop. I found a lot of brilliant ones on top of two dressers placed back to the back. I did a lot of scouting around on the Internet for DIY cutting table ideas, particularly ones that were flexible and could partially fold up. Therefore, I didn’t have room for a really large cutting table to be out all the time. And although the room was a good size, it also doubled as a spare bedroom. So I needed to find a solution that was better for my back and that would stay in my sewing room. Plus, I had to transport everything back and forth to my sewing room. But it also meant I had to clear it to work on, and clear it off again for meal times. But cutting with my mat on the floor was dreadful for both my knees AND my back.Ĭutting fabric on the kitchen counter was the most ergonomic option. Despite being just over 5 ft tall, hunching over my sewing table was hard on my back. But I found cutting fabric for quilts awkward no matter where I did it. In our next apartment, I had much more room to work with and a dedicated sewing/craft room to myself. In the first apartment, I sewed on our dining table, cut fabric on our kitchen counters, and laid out quilt blocks on the top of the bed. I will probably still shop at Ikea but will be much more wary of the durability and quality of the products.Since I learned to quilt, we have lived in several apartments. I was pretty shocked, the table was more cardboard than wood. You can see in the photo the leg bracket which is support by particle board and the cardboard sticking out for the rest of the table. That’s right, the majority of the table top is made of cardboard! You can see the particle board of the left and the cardboard on the center and right. As shown in the picture, the rest of the table top is plywood on the top and bottom with cardboard as the filler in the middle. The surprising part was what the rest of the table is made of. Particle board is cheap, heavy and brittle but at least it is real wood. As shown in the picture, the corner piece is particle board where the leg connects to the table. To test it I cut off a corner piece of the table to see the wood inside. However, I noticed the table top felt very light, even though it appeared to be made out of wood. ![]() ![]() The plan was to cut the table top into pieces, essentially making boards out of the table top. The following story explains why Ikea can keep their prices so low.Ī few days I was going to use the table top of an Ikea desk for other wood working projects. If you ever have gone to Ikea, you are probably impressed by their prices and have a sense that the quality of some of the furniture isn’t that great. This isn’t really a think I like, but it is something I think is interesting.
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