DIY: Canvas Table Top

Corinne Gilbert, the discerning designer and owner of Mc & Co. in Williamsburg, has come up with a great coffee-table top for her home; gessoed canvas stretched across a hollow core door and affixed with upholstery tacks on the sides. When the canvas starts to look a little shabby, a coat of paint spruces it up again. Genius.

A basic hollow core door will retail for $15 to $25 new, but this is an ideal material to salvage from a home construction project. With some mid-weight primed canvas, upholstery tacks, and a hammer, you’re almost done.

Above: Gilbert’s finished product.

Above: Primed Medium-Weight Cotton Canvas is 63 inches wide and sold for $8.79 per yard at Blick.

We recently posted on using canvas drop cloths in your home decor. For another great use for versatile canvas, see Remodelista’s post, Outdoors: Beckel Canvas Tents.

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Val M.

1:54AM PDT on Apr 4, 2013

Thanks

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Winn A.

1:00PM PDT on Jun 4, 2012

Thanks for the article.

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Carole R.

2:37PM PDT on Oct 4, 2011

Interesting. Not by style,though.

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Robyn L.

9:08PM PDT on Sep 2, 2011

I'm seeing this as primed canvas over an exceedingly ugly table top, host a party, have everyone paint on it and then seal that baby with a couple coats.
No tracking down the door and feet, no new purchases aside from canvas and paints/brushes/sponges and sealant.
staple canvas under the exceedingly ugly table top.

I'm already looking at some of our pick pile tables.....bwahhahahahahaaaa!