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DIY Concrete Top Dining Table

This beast of an outdoor dining table is an impeccable project to build for your back porch or patio! The concrete top dining table and matching benches are a new and improved spin on a picnic table! Start enjoying the outdoors with breakfast, lunch, or dinner on your handmade DIY outdoor dining table!

X Base Concrete Top Dining Table
This post is sponsored by Build Something and Kreg!

I had to take pictures between the rain downpours, so the concrete is wet on one of the benches and the pics were taken literally in about five minutes, the weather refused to give me any more time than that! But even with all the rain, they still look great!!

X Base Outdoor Concrete Dining Table

I am so excited for summer picnics and evening meals out here, and I am excited to have teamed up with Kreg Tool to bring you the FREE plans for this table!! Get the plans for the DIY Concrete Top Dining Table! Kreg Tool is Kreg’s DIY website full of free plans for all kinds of builds!! Free plans for furniture for every room in your home, beds, dressers, dining tables, and everything else you could ever dream of! You have to check out the WoodShop Diaries bench she just posted while you are over there, it’s my favorite bench ever! Now I may have to build one! Lol!!

This table was such an easy build, and the concrete top is just icing on the cake! This was the largest concrete project I have done to date and I had a sore back after mixing 9 bags of concrete by hand for the benches and table, but once I sat it all up on the back patio, it was so worth every last ache and pain!

DIY Concrete Top Dining Table and concrete top Benches

And I love the rug I picked up at Home Depot, it was only 89 bucks!! It’s soaked with water and mud from the dogs, but I still couldn’t be happier with it!!

Gathering Supplies for the DIY Concrete Top Dining Table

The total cost of this table is right under $100! What a great freaking deal for a table that will seriously last so many dang years, the way the concrete top shades the wood from the sun, if you make sure and seal the bottoms of the legs it will be years before you will have to replace it! And, if you want to build both benches along with the table, it will be a total cost of $150 bucks!

I cannot get over how cheap that is! I thought I had miscalculated! Lol! I kept adding it up over and over again, yall it is only 150 big ones to have this beautiful set in your backyard…well, 150 bucks and a little elbow grease building the set! 😉

UPDATE: So if you have been to the hardware store lately, or any store for that matter, you have seen that prices have increased so much over the last year or two that the total cost for the concrete top dining table is now a few bucks over 150. That is just for the table and concrete top! If you want to build the set of the dining table and the concrete top benches, the total cost will now be around 275! Ugh! This makes me so frustrated but fortunately, it is still way cheaper than purchasing a table, especially one that is the same quality as this, it would be $1000-2500!

Materials for Concrete Top Dining Table

  • 2 – 4x4x8
  • 3 – 2x4x8
  • 1 – 2x6x8
  • 2 – 2x2x8
  • 1 – 2x3x8
  • 1 – 4’x8′ sheet of 3/4″ melamine
  • silicone caulk
  • 1 1/4″ screws
  • 2 1/2″ pocket hole screws
  • Kreg Jig
  • Miter saw
  • mixing tub
  • shovel
  • 5 bags of Quickrete 5000
  • roll of 1/2″ x 36″ x 10′ hardware cloth

Cut List for the Concrete Top Dining Table

  • 4 – 4×4 @ 29″ mitered at 10 degrees off square, ends parallel – legs
  • 2 – 2×4 @ 46″ aprons
  • 2 – 2×4 @ 20 1/2″ mitered at 10 degrees off square – side aprons
  • 2 – 2×4 @ 28 9/64″ mitered at 10 degrees off square – bottom side rails
  • 1 – 2×6 @ 48 1/2″ top stretcher
  • 1 – 2×4 @ 48 1/2″ bottom stretcher
  • 2 – 2×2 @ 29 1/2″ ends mitered at 52 degrees off square, ends parallel – long side of the X
  • 2 – 2×2 @ 12 1/4″ mitered at 52 degrees off square on top end, 13 degrees off square on the bottom end the meets the other 2×2 – top short side of X
  • 2 – 2×2 @ 16 1/4″ one end mitered at 52 degrees off square, top end, and 13 degrees off square of the end that meets the 2×2 of the X – bottom piece of X
  • 1 – 2×3 @ 29 1/8″ ends mitered at 45 degrees off square, ends not parallel – angled braces

Concrete Form for the Table Top

  • 1 – 3/4″ melamine piece cut @ 40″ x 78″ base of the form
  • 2 – 3/4″ melamine pieces cut @ 2 1/4″ x 40″ short sides of form
  • 2 – 3/4″ melamine pieces cut @ 2 1/4″ x 79 1/2″ long sides of form

Building the DIY Concrete Top Dining Table

Head on over and get the FREE plans at KREGTOOL.COM now for the table base and top!

Are you a fan of concrete in your DIY projects? I have since added concrete to so many furniture builds and you may find something else you need to build such as this DIY Round Concrete Dining Table, or this DIY Bathroom Vanity. Or if you are scared to work with concrete because you haven’t ever done it, you can start with a super simple project that doesn’t cost much at all, these DIY concrete Christmas Trees are the perfect place to start!

My all-time favorite concrete project are my concrete countertops! They are gorgeous and I show you how to pour yourself some too!

Have a wonderful first week of summer, hope you build some amazing projects this summer!

Lots of LOVE!

Cara - The Inspired Workshop signature says XOXO, Cara

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DIY Concrete Top Dining Table with concrete top benches outside on a rug
DIY Concrete top dining table sitting on the back porch with two matching benches all with concrete tops and X bases
DIY concrete top dining table on the back patio with a navy blue rug underneath
DIY Concrete Top Dining Table

4 Comments

    1. Hey Heather!
      If you are asking if the base can hold a 3″ top, it should be able to but that will be INCREDIBLY heavy…I’m sure you are well aware of that, lol, but we had a heck of a time with this 1 1/2″ top! If you just like the look of 3″ you can always use foam insulation to take up space in the center and make it a lot lighter weight though! Hope that helps! Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a good one!

      Cara

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