It depends how well you treat it. Someone fidgety putting their feet on a €5 Lack table is enough to ruin it, as the connection between the legs and the tabletop is just double-ended screws.
Really ? A hole the size of a ballpoint head ruined the table ?
It's a £100 table after all, not some old, 300 years plus table. So I think your clients won't expect them to be that good in the first place considering the price and quality.
Just get some cheap metal brackets and attach them to the underside of the table and the legs. Especially if you have a white Lack, you can paint the bracket and screws white and the table will still look nice.
And this would make it, dunno, $40 for the table and $5 for the screws and brackets.
Until your wife gets tired of them. Now I have two beautiful well kept GeekChic tables for sale and have a fancy natural wood dining room table with two halves and glass between them. Very pretty but no gaming capability beyond a large mostly flat surface.
Agreed. Those little Lack tables are sturdy enough that they're often used as a cheap rack mounts by guitarists. Iirc they're almost perfectly a 1U width and depth, for anyone looking into a home lab. Add a couple of corner brackets and a layer of sealer and they'll take an outrageous beating.
That said, a benefit to the lack(heh) of quality is how light everything is. I do a lot of projects that require using my entire living space. If it wasn't so easy to just shove the furniture out of the way, I'd have that much more inertia between me and doing what I want.
Do you carry a spare table when you go to restaurants?
I deal with analogous situations, on a larger scale, all the time. The solution most designers choose is to make the legs adjustable (like via screws) so you get the strong broad support of multiple legs while gaining the ability to deal with imperfections.
not for you... sell it. E1M1 Table for sale: $20,000. There are people out there that aren't woodworkers with lots of money for nostalgic stuff like this. Seal the top with glass (or clear acrylic) so you can see into the level. Oh man oh man.
At uni (in the UK) my housemates and I bought some hardboard and extended our tiny kitchen table to seat 12. Sure it was a little wobbly but with a table cloth on it you could hardly tell
TBF it is not the best coffee table, I think it’s such a popular product for all the other uses.
The use cases for us was to shove 10cm off the feet and use it as a ground table (e.g. a kid can do homework on it while sitting on the floor), it’s also light enough to be easily moved from one room to the other. The other one supports the printer with the paper stock under it.
This demo, coupled with the headline, really hits a sour note. So much about a piece of furniture you care enough about to design and place into your home is not about getting just the right number of rays on your stellate-pattern tabletop.
It's more about the exposed edges, the joinery, and the surfaces you will touch. That's where your eyes are attracted. That's the tough stuff to resolve cleanly when you design a piece. And that's a part that the knock-together construction here is not going to help with.
I guess this might have a place with very simple pieces that really need to fit in a certain space, say, between a wall and a fireplace.
For your next lot of tables, you might want to consider rounding the table tops slightly too. That way they don't dig into your wrists quite so much - plus they'll match the legs.
The table looked very awkward. I actually previously had a solid wood IKEA table with two folding leaves and storage space in between, which cost about £200, and looked a lot more usable (and attractive) than that table. Admittedly you could only get 6 people round it rather than 8/10. But then again, it didn't cost £3000.
The issue I've always had with this kind of reductionist philosophy is that there is a very clear and obvious continuum between "table" and "not table". At no point can everyone clearly agree what is and isn't a table.
Sure, most people would agree that an assembled IKEA "LISABO" table is a table.
Okay.. what if one of the legs is removed and it is sideways? What if one leg is removed but it is propped up with a pile of boxes?
What if it's intact as designed, but slightly scuffed? Deeply gouged? Horribly worn to the point of having holes through the top but still able to support plates and cutlery? What if all four legs are also broken, but it's still serviceable as a Japanese-style low table? What if atom-by-atom, we erode its form until nobody alive agrees that it is a table? What if someone then changes their mind?
This is the problem: all forms of matter, unless specified down to individual atoms, are just social conventions -- inconsistent ones at that!
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