How can I shorten this table.
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Anne
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Sorry, ignore the dog please. I would like to lower this table enough to be able to serve a meal at it for people sitting on the couch. I’d also like some ideas on how to refinish it properly.
I think it will be difficult to lower the table with that leg, unless you can take it apart somehow. What about other legs for the table?
flip the table over for starts. Look at teh center post and see if it has any large screw to hold the post together. You can always take out a section of the center post and glue it back together if you have to shorten the table.
If it comes apart for a leaf, the bolts that attach the pedestal to the top are in there. Loosen them and cut to the desired height with a circular saw. Reattaching might be tricky because you will be cutting off the part where the bolts are attached. You might be able to use some scrap wood to attach to the pedestal and then attach the top to that.
Oh that dog is huge! :)
Flip the table over, remove the base (screws?), remove the piece that is fastening the base to the top. Measure the height you want the table from the bottom of the legs up the center post. (Coffee table height is about 15 inches - maybe a little more). Saw off the excess length, put on the piece you removed that fastens the base to the top. Put (screw and glue) on the top. You're done!
I have some doubts about this working as a table for couch eating.... concerns would be if you lower the pedestal, the apron underneath the top may strike sitters' knees. Then the pedestal itself may prevent getting is close enough to eat from. I would do a trial run before chopping off the pedestal.
I have seen people use this design coffee table with a lifting top for eating and working on the couch, and if you look down the page they sell the hardware to do this yourself..... I would go thrift shopping and find a nice old coffee table with a big wooden top.... https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&hs=aDo&biw=1471&bih=687&tbm=shop&ei=smV4W5ugIPO70PEPp-aS4AM&q=pictures+of+coffee+tables+with+raising+tops&oq=pictures+of+coffee+tables+with+raising+tops&gs_l=psy-ab.12...10874.24255.0.26470.38.38.0.0.0.0.132.2542.34j4.38.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.4.376...0j33i10k1.0.MIfHX9W7A3U