Root table. how to make a table from roots with your own hands

An interesting and rather unusual trend - the use of tree stumps in interior design - appeared just a couple of years ago. It was rapidly gaining momentum, and today tree stumps are no longer just a current trend, but a sign of style and taste.

Today, stumps are an incredibly popular, and at the same time inexpensive and environmentally friendly material.

How to make a chair, stool or armchair from a stump, hemp or log with your own hands

There are an endless number of options for chairs made of stumps and logs, as well as tables. There are two main technologies for creating a chair or stool from hemp:

by firing method,
chainsaw.

Using the firing method to make a chair or stool is quite simple. First, the log is sawn crosswise lengthwise to the required length of the legs. The cracks are wedged with wooden chips. Small chips and branches are poured into the wedged cracks, a little gasoline is added and set on fire, fuel is added little by little to maintain combustion and ignite the bulk of the log. This burns out the center of the log. After the necessary firing with an angle grinder with a brush, the excess coals are removed and a do-it-yourself stool made of logs or hemp on 4 legs is obtained. It is further processed.

The required workpiece is cut out with a chainsaw and then ground with an angle grinder, or fired, painted, etc. You can also place the stool on furniture wheels, screwing them from below, the lower surface should be perfectly flat. You can attach a pillow to the hemp on top, so you get homemade upholstered furniture. By placing a cut of wood on the legs, you will also get a wonderful stool.

Do-it-yourself hemp stool using the firing method.

Chair-stool made of hemp (logs) with a chainsaw.

Do-it-yourself garden chair made from logs (video)

A simple chair from a log is made in almost the same way as a stool, but the back is cut out with a chainsaw, as in the video below.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_zXwsd0Aci0

Garden chair made of logs in the shape of a hand (video)

Chairs or armchairs from logs can be made of any shape and size, for example in the shape of a hand. To do this, you need to work well with a gas or electric chain saw.

Gallery of photographs of chairs, armchairs and stools made of logs and stumps

Finally, options for creating armchairs, chairs, stools from logs and stumps.

As you can see, there is nothing particularly difficult in making a chair or stool from a log, the main thing is to approach the matter with soul and hard work.

Features of operation

Chairs made from pieces of logs can be used both in an apartment or private house, and outdoors as garden furniture. However, in order for the products to last a long time, when using them you must adhere to the following recommendations:

Protect furniture items from moisture as much as possible. Do not place chairs on a wet surface and do not wash them with a stream of water;
If cleaning is necessary, the product can be wiped with a dry or slightly damp cloth;
It is not advisable to place hot items on chairs made from solid logs. This can cause damage to the wood.

When using the product as a piece of garden furniture, in autumn and winter, the chair should be stored in a dry and warm room. It is unacceptable to cover furniture with polyethylene for a long time, as this will lead to a greenhouse effect and damage to the wood.

A log chair should be periodically impregnated with stain

Periodically, the product must be updated by sanding it with sandpaper, impregnating it with stain and opening it with varnish. For home use, this will have to be done once every 3-4 years. For garden wooden chairs, the coating is renewed annually.

Driftwood and branches in the garden

Any wood is a material for creativity. A board with a greeting is laid out from thin branches.

The decor on the welcome board is attached with glue

Thick ones are used to make unique garden furniture.

A stylish chair will last longer if you remove the bark from the branches

Interestingly shaped driftwood will give your garden a picturesque look if you simply place it among the plants.

Don't pass by beautiful driftwood - it's very rare

And with the help of glue and screws, various animal figures are made from pieces of wood. But first, the bark is removed from the branches and they are lightened.

Step-by-step instruction:

Soak the material in a solution of soda ash: 2 cups per 7 liters of hot water. Place a weight on top.
After 3 days, remove the bark using a wire brush.
Then immerse the branches in a bleach solution for 2 days: 1 glass per 7 liters of water.
Dry in the sun for 3 days.
Sand with fine-grit sandpaper.

Selecting material for drawing up figures is a long but exciting task.

Gallery: crafts from driftwood and branches

A wreath of bleached branches will decorate a door or gate. Install a strange mushroom from driftwood and branches under the tree.
To create a Christmas tree, branches drilled in the middle are placed on an iron pin. It is better to make large figures from driftwood. From curved branches and snags, fancy stands for pots are created. Before installing the seat on the bench carefully polished

You can make any door decoration from small twigs. A funny pig made from driftwood looks great on a green lawn.

A lamp made from branches is an exquisite decoration for a gazebo or veranda

Tables and chairs

Untreated wood is an almost ready-made form for creating creative furniture. At the beginning of work, it is advisable to thoroughly dry the wood and carefully process it. Then the products will last you much longer

The simplest option for such fittings is stumps and decks of different sizes. Cut down the stump with an even cut - and the table and chairs are completely ready to perform their direct functions!

The excessive asceticism of hemp stools and benches can be smoothed out by backrests, comfortable seats or soft pillows

In the following photos we will admire the designer handmade collection

Attach the tabletop to a piece of large driftwood and your rustic design will be flawless

For stability, make neat, even cuts on the original stand

If you manage to get a wide log, make a tabletop for a summer kitchen or a surface for a bar counter

Small branches are perfect as components for chairs. Use larger ones for the legs, connecting them into one

Pots made of rotten stumps

Nature itself will give you interesting ideas. Moss and vegetation on the stumps refresh the old tree. Its rotten center inside is an excellent option for a flowerpot. All that remains is to plant your favorite plants, but only in a pot to avoid destruction of the wood. Massive branches with graceful curves give us an idea for fencing. Strength and reliability, together with natural beauty, make wood an ideal environmentally friendly basis for paving. The cuts should be smooth, and it is not at all necessary to process them, then the rough surface will not be slippery during rain

Non-standard spruce

Impressive arch

Folk beliefs in the forest spirit

Ethnocultural archaic traditions have preserved the belief that spirits live in trees. If you cut down a tree, the spirit moves into the stump and appears with it in homes as the owner of the house.

Some fairy tales talk about the transformation of a tree stump into a person - into a boy who later became a hero, or into an assistant protector.

The stump is credited with the ability to unite with the other world, explaining its location under the stump of the lower world. Fairy tales also mention burrows, going down which lead to “dwellings, just like ours.” Many people believe that a stump predicts a person’s fate, and they perform special rituals to appease the forest spirit.

Choosing a stump

The most important point in this master class, of course, will be the process of finding the right stump. In our case, a part of a 100-year-old tree was selected, which its owners were planning to cut down any day.

Avoid soft woods such as pine to avoid rotting and choose the piece that is straightest at the top and bottom. Although, if you have a crooked stump, but you just fell in love with it, then you can fix it all and just trim the crooked parts.

The longer your stump takes to dry, the better, especially if you decide to use soft wood. But even hardwood stumps need to be thoroughly dried before you begin. Let the hemp sit indoors for several weeks.

The meaning of the word "stump"

A stump is the remnant of a tree with roots or the lower part of a tree, and a log or block is a stump of a log. In the North Russian dialect, a deck is a tree with roots, and a deck is a lying thick tree.

Sometimes the designation of a dugout hive or well with a deck is found. In the Russian dialect, the designations of a stump and a log are combined in the designation of a boreval, a well.

These concepts are compared with the images and behavior of people: if a person does work with negligence, then this means that it is through a stump; and if this person is slow and inept at work, then he falls through the cracks;

Both the stump and the block are traditionally attributed to human traits, so a log, a block of wood or a stump is called a stupid or insensitive person, as well as a blockhead, a dullard, a fool. And in children's games there is a driver - a tree stump. A deck is a name given to a lying, clumsy person.

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What the signs say:

A sick person is seated on a fresh aspen stump, which will take away the disease.

Stump - teremok

You will need: a stump, a log, a hammer, a saw, a chainsaw, a chisel, a hacksaw, tall grass for a broom, an elastic band or rope, for the path - pieces of roofing felt, fine gravel, a watering can with water, a regular broom, a fence, a brush, paint, toys.

Master Class

Remove the core from the stump for doors and windows.
Mow the tall grass and make a broom.
Place a grass broom as a roof.
Line the path to the tower with pieces of roofing felt.
Cut the log into circles using a chainsaw, then lay them out on the roofing felt.
Fill with fine gravel and sweep the gravel from the wooden circles with a broom.
Fill with water and leave to dry.
Put up a fence, paint the tower and place toys as residents.

The tree stump is ready!

Eco-style seats

Wood can be heavy, so we had to put the ottomans on wheels.

You can make high bar stools.

If you add a little imagination...

And this is the designer’s job.

Interior items made from branches

Before you start work, select the appropriate material. The main condition is the absence of rot and mold on the branches. In turn, the cracks will add decorativeness to the branches.

Clean the natural material from excess dust and dirt, and then dry thoroughly. It is best to dry the wood in the shade in a well-ventilated area or even under a canopy, if possible.
Next, you will need to process the branches with carving. Work in the direction of the fibers, first with a coarse and then with a fine nozzle. Don't forget about the end cuts.
As already noted, parts can be connected to each other using glue, screws, a wedge, etc.
After the blanks for the final product are ready and sized for joining, they must be processed. Large cracks that are very embarrassing can be eliminated using epoxy resin in several stages. Once the resin has dried, sand down any exposed areas.
The next stage is assembling the product.
The finished piece of furniture must be decorated. To do this, you can use stain, with which you can radically change the color of the wood, without losing all the charm of the texture of the material.
Finally, it is advisable to use varnish applied in at least two layers.

Your wild imagination, as well as our photos, will help you adapt the branches! Be bold and don’t stop in the face of difficulties!

How to treat a stump for the interior

To create a table or cabinet, you need to find a suitable stump and process it correctly. The bark can be removed with a chisel, or you can leave it on.

Cut to the required size

Removing bark from a stump

The sections of the stump should be sanded using sandpaper and then the stump should be cleaned of dust. Treat with a layer of primer and open the stump with several layers of wood varnish.

Sand the stump using sandpaper

Apply water-repellent impregnation

If the future table is intended for the bathroom, you need to apply a water-repellent impregnation.

Types of tables

There are several popular types of hemp tables. Here are the main types of structures in terms of material processing features:

Natural looking product. This is the easiest design to manufacture; it involves the use of a stump in its original form. The only processing that needs to be done is sanding. It is necessary to ensure that table users do not get splinters.
Painted furniture. If desired, the stump can be painted in any color or patterns can be applied to it using a stencil or brush. Painting the product allows you to adapt it to the interior, made in a certain color scheme.

From the point of view of the design features of the finished product, the following types of tables can be distinguished:

Furniture with glass. If the master plans to make a coffee or coffee table, then he can use a stump as a stand to which a glass table top is attached. The parts of the structure are connected to each other using screws or special glue.
Product with legs. The table can be equipped with legs of any length. New wooden or chrome-plated legs, as well as legs from old furniture, are suitable for work. Forged racks of openwork shapes allow you to make the table more elegant and unusual. Legs not only improve the appearance of the furniture, but also reduce the likelihood of scratches on the floor when moving the product from place to place. In addition, the legs raise the stump above the floor and allow air to circulate underneath it. All this allows you to extend the life of the structure.
Table on wheels. Instead of legs, you can attach wheels to the bottom of the furniture. This will significantly increase the mobility of the structure.
A product made from bars connected to each other. If the master has several thin wooden blocks instead of one large stump, then they can be connected to each other using glue or fasteners. The result is a table with an unusual shape. It can be equipped with a glass or wooden tabletop.
A “one on top of the other” type structure. There is an easy way to make an original coffee table. To do this, you need to take several slices of wood of different thicknesses and place them one on top of the other with a slight offset.
A table made from a cut trunk. If the furniture maker has a whole tree trunk at his disposal, then it can be cut into two halves or carved into a rectangle and used as furniture for the home or garden.

Other design options are possible, it all depends on the imagination of the master.

Author's ideas

If you make an effort, you can make stylish interior elements from a seemingly unnecessary stump or cutting a log.

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A piece of wood with bark makes an interesting vase. LED light bulbs are inserted inside the empty stump-table, and the table also becomes a lamp. The wall looks original if you cover it with round cuts of a tree trunk.

Design selection

The design of the entire table can be divided into two components: the choice of tabletop and legs.

When choosing a countertop design, it is important to consider some features of your room and your imagination:

If you want a round or oval shape, then you should have enough space, because... it has impressive dimensions. Ideal for a large living room or hall, and also harmonizes with the gazebo;
A small tabletop is a beautiful addition to a small living room;
The rectangle shape is suitable for all occasions.

When choosing legs, rely solely on your taste. You can make a table with one, two, three or traditionally four legs.

What do you want the final version to look like? This is a purely personal question and depends on your taste and preferences. If you want something unusual, but nothing comes to mind, you can look at photographs of tables made from cut wood and make everything according to the sample.

Snag - an idea for a sculpture

Branched bends of roots, gnarled stems, powerful stumps - the best material for creating the image of realistic and fictional figures

For some, the curves are wings, while others recognize the silhouette of an animal in them. Do not limit your imagination, use wood in its natural beauty

Have you collected a collection of various branches and twigs? Try creating something more complex like this beautiful stallion creation. Thanks to movement, precise proportions and shapes, the sculpture seems to come to life before your eyes!

Notice the exotic image in the driftwood? Finalize the form, show its character to the maximum, making the figure noticeable to everyone

Old driftwood is an unusual and valuable material for impressive decorative items, furniture, and expressive figures. Most likely, we have not mentioned all the options for their use. Now you!

What other uses for driftwood can you imagine? Or maybe you already have a piece of art made from this original material at home?

Hemp in the interior, collected in a set

To compose the set, hemp is selected that differs in height and diameter. It is permissible to display stumps of different tree species together or painted in harmonious colors.

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Such sets will fit into a classic interior, country style, grunge style, minimalism or industrial style. Stumps painted in glossy and metallic shades are relevant for the high-tech style.

It’s easy to make an interesting stand for wine bottles yourself; you’ll get an original decorative item. Carefully clean the deck and prepare the cells, then varnish. If you cut out square openings in a curved log, you will get an original shelving unit.

Furniture made from stumps and snags

In addition to plants and a garden path, the garden plot has a place to relax. Garden furniture must be durable, stable and withstand aggressive environmental influences. Wooden garden furniture is quite expensive, so it is best to make it yourself.

If you have a large stump in your garden, try cutting it into a comfortable chair. Depending on the size of the hemp, the chair will be either for an adult or for a child. Using a chainsaw it is easy to cut out the seat, backrest and even armrests. You can also use the stumps themselves as a place to rest. If necessary, they should be treated with sealants and painted.

logs and hemp in furniture making

A driftwood from an ugly and curved piece of wood will turn into an original decor. A large piece of driftwood can be used as a table leg and to decorate chairs.

Driftwood and stumps can decorate country furniture in an original way

Sanded and varnished driftwood will add zest to any room.

Here is another photo of original furniture made from driftwood and stumps:

Advantages of log furniture

At the dacha they often use old furniture that used to be in a city apartment, or they buy lightweight plastic, folding chairs made of wooden slats, metal pipes and thick fabric. Their main advantage is mobility, but at the same time they are not very stable, and budget models are also quite inconvenient. A durable, comfortable, reliable chair for a summer house or picnic will not be cheap. Chairs made from logs have a number of advantages:

cheapness, availability of material. If an old, large tree has recently been cut down or uprooted on the site, the material for making a chair is already at hand, and you don’t even have to worry about transporting the log. You can find a log of suitable size in the forest. As a rule, you can make a chair from it without a single nail (screw), and no glue is needed;
strength. Furniture made from logs is solid and much more reliable than factory chairs made of plastic or small-section timber and plywood. Such a chair will not loosen or break even under a massive rider;
ease of manufacture. A wooden chair with a back, drawers, and legs is a rather complex design; you need to make calculations, draw a drawing, select grooves and cut tenons to connect the parts. A simple chair can be made from a log in just a couple of minutes, and this task can be done even by those who have no carpentry skills at all;
appearance. If you give free rein to your imagination, you can make original furniture that no one else will have exactly the same.

The wood for making furniture should be selected dry, but not rotten, without traces of fungus or mold.

Hemp flowerbed

You will need: a dry stump, a chainsaw, an axe, a piece of polystyrene foam, a ruler, an antiseptic, paint, soil, sand, flowers (which ones are best to use are described in the master class in paragraph 7).

Master Class

Trim the bottom edge with a chainsaw to create a level base.
Draw contours on the surface of the stump, retreating at least 5 cm.
Make 10-20 cm indentations in the stump using a chainsaw and an axe.
Treat the inner walls of the stump with an antiseptic or paint it. This way the stump will last longer.
Using a chainsaw, drill a hole for drainage to prevent moisture from accumulating, then insert a piece of foam.
Mix store-bought soil with garden soil and add sand, then pour it into the stump.
Plant flowers. Flowers with a small root system are best suited, such as: tulips, begonia, petunia, geranium, daffodils, oxalis, purslane, pansies, primroses, marigolds...
Water your flowers regularly and take care of your flower bed.

The hemp flower bed is ready! I recommend watching this video!

I recommend viewing a photo gallery of ideas for creating flower beds on a stump!

Idea #5 – garden sculptures

Anyone can create garden figurines from stumps, but real artists end up with wonderful works of art that amaze with their realism. If you are driven by the desire to simply decorate your area, then you can create a simple image that does not require special skills.

Of course, this magnificent deer calling out in the spring forest was skillfully carved from an ordinary stump by a high-level professional

Making a simple figurine from a stump is not at all difficult. Those who made snowmen in childhood can apply their accumulated experience in this case. The role of hands will be played by twigs, instead of the nose and mouth we will attach twigs, Eyes can be made from brown bottoms from plastic bottles. The role of the pupil will be played by the cork from the same bottles.

All this is attached to the stump with self-tapping screws. On the horizontal surface of the cut, you can simply lay out pine cones, which will imitate hair. This garden guard, which we whipped up, is ready.

But any schoolchild can make such a funny guard for a dacha, and this is precisely why such a garden sculpture is valued

If it happened that you had to cut down a whole row of country trees, do not be sad. This situation also has its positive side. But you now have a large number of stumps located close to each other. And this is not bad at all. Make them into a fairyland for your children, putting into practice all the information that you have already received in this article.

It will be just a wonderful place to play. First you have to clear each stump of bark. For this you will need a chisel and a hammer. The chisel must be inserted between the bark and the tree trunk, then gently tap it with a hammer. The bark will move away from the trunk and soon the stump will completely lose it. Now it can be thoroughly sanded using medium-grit sandpaper for this purpose.

Such an owl could easily become the companion of Baba Yaga herself and settle in her hut, flying out from time to time to hunt

Be sure to remove wood dust formed during work with a damp cloth. The wood prepared in this way should be treated with an antiseptic, which will protect it from rotting.

Now you can start decorating the stump. Let's choose a large stump to turn it into Baba Yaga's real house. Let's take chalk and outline the location of the future windows and doors of the grandmother's hut. Recesses in wood for doors and windows can be made using a chisel and hammer.

We will need pieces of boards from which we will make doors and window shutters. These parts of the future structure can be painted right now, while they are not yet nailed into place. Doors and shutters should be nailed to the places marked on the stump using nails whose heads have been bitten off. When finishing decorating the hut, you can collect branches and driftwood of unusual shapes from the area to stick them around Baba Yaga’s house. Let them portray dense years.

On smaller stumps you can depict heroes of a variety of folk tales or funny cartoon characters. You can decorate these stumps and draw your intended characters on them using paints for outdoor work. The images outside will wonderfully complement the flowers planted directly inside the stumps. How to do this was described in detail at the beginning of the article. You can limit yourself to pots with plants.

Another wonderful composition, made by a professional artist and sculptor, creates a great mood inherent in a small fairy-tale corner of your garden

We'll turn a couple more stumps into children's chairs. To do this, we won’t even cut out the massive back. If you have old chairs, use their backs for this job. They should be carefully freed from varnish, and then, using ordinary nails, nailed to the stump seats. All that remains is to paint the finished chairs in bright colors that children will definitely like.

Simply turn the small remaining stumps into a flock of fly agarics, using bowls or basins of the appropriate size as their caps. Now you know exactly how such fly agarics can be made. That's it, the improvisation on the theme of the fairy tale is ready.

What can be made from old stumps?

Human fantasy is truly endless! Sometimes you surprise yourself - where do ideas come from? Moreover, even the most ancient thing can be used if desired. So it is with an old stump or snag, which not very enterprising people will most likely throw out or burn. But don’t rush, because you can give it a second life. You ask how? And we will answer - very simply!

An old stump can become furniture, which is so necessary in the garden, or part of it, for example, a chair for children and adults, which depends on the size of the stump. If it is tall, then you can use a chainsaw to cut out a part so that you get a back, and if the stump is also very large in girth, then you can make armrests and you will have a large chair.

Small, low stumps are perfect for the playground. The upper cut needs to be cleaned and sanded; a colored design can be applied on top with paints.

The chair immediately suggests making a table, where it is so pleasant to drink a cup of tea under a spreading apple tree in the shade. Our stump can become both a support for the tabletop and the table itself, if the size allows. In the first case, you must first level the surface of the stump and treat it with special impregnations that will prevent it from rotting.

Then on the sides, parallel to each other, we nail two planks, and on them we nail two more perpendicularly. After that, we knock the boards into a tabletop of any shape you like, and fasten it with nails to the planks below. This is one of many options. To ensure that the product serves you for a long time, coat it with varnish.

You can also make other DIY tree stump crafts that can be used as garden sculptures. For example, a bright fly agaric will become an accent on a green lawn or under a spreading bush.

The stump will be the foot of the mushroom, and make the cap from an old bowl, which must be covered with red spray paint, and when it dries, paint white spots. You can also paint the leg and even draw a face on it and thereby revive the fly agaric. Thus, you can make not only fly agaric, but also other mushrooms.

With a little imagination, you will have a one-of-a-kind stump sculpture.

Also, a stump can become a pedestal for any sculpture, a plant in a tub, and even a barrel of water for watering the garden.

And what beautiful containers for plants can be made from stumps! To get a flower pot, you just need to remove part of the core, add drainage (expanded clay) and fertile soil and plant the plants. The young will look very beautiful, for which about 4 cm of soil is enough.

And if the stump is large, then it can be used as a flowerpot and a pot of flowers can be inserted into it. Or cut out the middle to a depth of 25-30 cm and arrange a real mini-flower bed.

To do this, again make a drainage layer of 5-10 cm and pour about 20 cm of fertile soil. And then you plant various plants.

Climbing species (ornamental strawberries, petunia, nasturtium, etc.) will look beautiful in combination with low-growing annuals and annuals. Such a decorative element will be an excellent addition to larger landscape compositions.

Stumps as chairs

Stumps make excellent stools. You can put small pillows on top of them to make it softer to sit on. Hemp can also be used as decorative chairs, which will be an excellent addition to the interior. The presence of a back will make the stump chair even more comfortable.

If you go to a workshop, you can make an original designer chair or bench.