cottage style table - direct from the alps in Austria

bbqburnt

Hello everybody,

I just finished my cottage style table and I am proud to spread my eggsperiences here in Austria / Europe from the heart of the alps.
What you see here is a self made concrete work plate on top of a formwork panel body. Due to the weather conditions here I needed very resistant material and the formwork panel does perfectly meet these demands. The cabinet is planked with about 40 year old larch front planks, which I got from an old cottage. Larch is an ideal wood for outside use and therefore was my choice. I brushed these planks to give them this rustic appeareance and fastened them with little nails without heads to the body - they should not be "visible".
On the surface of the concrete work plate you see my nickname "BBQ Burnt". To do that I cut the character out of a plastic foil and placed it on the surface of the formwork, before I filled it with the liquid concrete. After the concrete cured I refinished the writing by giving it a more craggy surface - I did that with a hammer and a little scredriver. At the end I hydrophobized the workplate to make it water-repellant.
I hope you like it and I am more than happy to contribute to this forum.

Best wishes from over the lake.

Bernd - alias BBQ Burnt

Spoon

Very nice table. It looks very sturdy and like it will withstand the elements. Beautiful countryside too.