Four years ago, I wrote about our 2-hour, $20 table project. Our most recent table took less than five minutes and it cost us nothing (if you don't count a little leftover stain.) The idea for the new piece came while Bill was chainsawing a felled, dead tree. What if we cut a slice of one of the bigger trees and put it on top of a stump from one of the smaller trees?
I swiped the slice for the top with a little stain...and, voila, we have a table rustic enough to complement the sweet, old chairs.
Now, I find myself thinking about what to do with the rest of the stumps. Yes, there are a few campfires in our future. And, yes, we could extend our stump wall (another story). But what else? A bench in the woods? A planter? A wall shelf? Hmmmmm....