How To Make A Table Top With Ceramic Tile

First in an excerpt from her popular video creative tile making angelica pozo shares her technique for making a cut tile mosaic table top.

How to make a table top with ceramic tile.

For example if your tile is 3 8 thick and your table is 1 5 thick you would need a strip 1 7 8 wide. How to put ceramic tile on a tabletop. Luckily you can create your own mosaic table top out of an old table that you have sitting around the house. You guys know i m a sucker for a tiled surface.

How to build a wooden garden table with mortise and tenon joints and marble effect tile top. I will share that i wanted to tile a table several years ago and instead used painters tape to create a tile like grid had my children and neighbors use oil pastels on the individual squares and then put a super thick self leveling sealer on like the kind used on wood in bars top. A mosaic table top is a fun and creative piece of furniture that can lighten up your space and give it a more artistic vibe. If a 2 piece is more readily available that is fine allow the excess to project below the bottom of the table top.

Determine the size of your tabletop. Ask to see a porcelain or stone tile or a combination that ll withstand harsh weather conditions. Your table is beautiful and i am inspired. However finding the right table top can be difficult because they all have different designs and colors.

I ve done quite a few tiled projects around here. More tiling in store for today. Our table with two sizes of stone tile cost about one fifth the cost of a store bought table. Then clay cunningham explains how he made a mosaic table top out of an old broken patio.

A summer woodworking project to get you out enjoying the garden. To make it easier try to create a pattern that requires no tile cutting. The tabletop installation shown here uses thinset for the adhesive but if the table is primarily decorative and won t receive heavy use use organic mastic as the adhesive. If the top is a little warped you can set small tile which doesn t crack as easily as large tile.

Use a pencil to mark out your design. This tabletop is made from a plywood core wrapped in cement board sealed with a paint on membrane and then covered with ceramic tile and grout. In today s post we ve gathered two great resources for those interested in making a ceramic mosaic table top. Cut the plywood to size based on the tile pattern you have created.

We expanded the size of our table by fastening a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood to the top of table.