DIY Angled Base Dining Table

Check out how we built a DIY angled base dining table that is perfect for any modern home! This table is easy to replicate for your home with our free plans!

Y’all, we are bringing to you what might be our new favorite build of all time! This DIY angled base dining table is sleek, modern and open and perfect for an open concept home. Today we’re bringing you the plans and how we built this table with our Kreg Jig!

DIY Dining Table

I love the simplicity of the design of this table, but how unique it looks with the angled base. The angles mimic our geometric coffee table in the other room, bringing three pointed pieces of wood together to form each side of the base.

This table is huge. It fits eight people comfortably, using chairs or benches.

We loved our old DIY West Elm knock-off dining room table, but it was one of our first woodworking projects and it was time for an upgrade after four years of learning some new skillz.

Construction

This build is really easy and we made the entire thing out of dimensional lumber available at the hardware store. That makes it easy to pick out the pieces you need and put them together.

The top was simple, using our Kreg Jig K4 to make pocket holes to join seven 1x6s together, with two more on each end. This is a sturdy top, so we had to make sure to have the appropriate number of holes to keep each board joined together.

Since the top is pretty heavy and long, it needs a solid base. We had the angled base design, but it needed to be sturdy. We didn’t want this table to look rustic, so using rough 2x4s wasn’t an option. Instead, we doubled up poplar 1x4s using wood glue to make all the pieces of the base.

Each of the legs are straight cuts, but the spreader and connecting pieces each have 30 degree angles coming off a point in the center, allowing them to all fit in together.

We like to make all our cuts first, then use the Kreg Jig to bring them all together.

We did have to be careful to make sure to use the right Kreg screws. When connecting the base together, we used 2 1/2″ screws because we were connecting 1 1/2″ thick pieces. But, when connecting the legs to the table top, we had to only drill holes for and use 1 1/4″ screws because we were screwing into a 3/4″ thick table top. Don’t want to use screws that are too long and blow right through the top!

The Plans

If you hadn’t picked up on it yet, we partnered with our friends at Kreg to bring you this gorgeous DIY angled base dining table. We’ve put the entire set of plans up on BuildSomething.com where you can get the full measurements, cut list and step-by-step plans.

The angled base of this dining table might seem difficult to do, but it’s really not, as long as you follow our plans. Kreg Jig pocket hole joinery makes the whole thing sturdy and seamless.

So head over to BuildSomething.com to get the full set of plans for our DIY angled base dining table. While you’re there, make sure you check out some of our other furniture plans, like the geometric base coffee table, a modern platform bed that can be build for $50, or a simple nightstand.

Their website is full of lots of great plans from lots of great makers. If there’s a project you need that we haven’t done yet, BuildSomething.com is going to have a great option for you!

Want to make a matching bench? We have FREE printable plans for you:

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