DIY acrylic bedside table & lamp

By Affinity

Yay! finally finished DIY-ing my bedside table. It also doubles up as a lamp as i placed the lamp inside.

Its pretty simple to do. i bought the separate acrylic pieces and glued them together using acrylic glue, (left the back uncovered as i wanted some air circulation for the heated bulb) sprayed glue on the lace and stick it to the underside of the table, placed the lamp iunder the table and there u go..

This is my first time glueing acrylic to lace. i sprayed clear glue onto the lace. not sure if it will last? thought it should be ok since its on the underside of the table and theres nothing to disturb it to make it loose.more photos at my home blog ...

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September 11, 2007

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Affinity

September 29, 2007

Thanks all!
Hi erin, just discovered your DFM blog. very nice! will check it out often.

hey analogthought, your table sounds like an interesting project!

erinloechner

September 26, 2007

Loooove this project! Great job!

analogthought

September 23, 2007

You have to layer it, but I have a friend who I helped with a project where she took her coffee table, and we polyurethaned chinese newspaper all over the surface space of the table. You have to do thin coats, one layer at a time to get it nice and even. I'd imagine if you used the spray adhesive first with the lace you could flatten any bubbles and then once dry add the polyurethane.

Affinity

September 23, 2007

Hi analogthought,

thanks for your idea! hey never used polyurethane coats before, will it be thick enough to smooth out the bumps of the lace so that i can have a smooth table top?

Hope the lace last for as long as i like the table :) will post here when the lace falls off so that people thinking of DIYing that can get an idea of how long it last.

analogthought

September 22, 2007

The only thing that may happen is that because of the glue and over time, use of the bulb, etc, it may dry out the glue and some of the lace may fall off. I'd say glue on the outside and a thin coat of polyurethane might last longer?

Affinity

September 11, 2007

Heheh, wont it gather more interest from readers? :P Anyway i've changed it to avoid unintentionally 'disturbing' people :)

Caya123

September 11, 2007

Good grief, you might want to check your spelling on that title there.