Architectural Salvage Coffee Table

Coffee table made from oak, steel angle iron and antique floor air return.  Some of the oak is construction salvage; the steel is from network wiring race and a bed frame, and the air return grate was obtained at a junk sale.

Coffee table - salvage materials - steel and oak with lacquer finish

Pumpkin kitty checking it out

Fits nicely in the room

Welded corners

Oak and Steel

We found the air return floor grate at a farm yard junk sale with 'the Paula'.  I picked it up with this project loosely in mind.

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Here are the original parts - air return grate and
metal from wiring rack

Thanks for the parts !!

I like to have the canine assistants in the shop to help with projects.  I wanted a way to open the garage door, yet keep them from running into the street or from chasing squirrels in the front yard.

I think I have it figured out.

'Cattle Panel' sections from Tractor Supply - I cut
them into shorter lengths and connected 
them using chain links. 

A couple of eye bolts in the garage door
moulding.  Slip the grate over it and 
drop a piece of rebar through the 
eye bolts

Puppies stay in garage and have run of the back yard
(Doggie door in back of shop).