Creative people with extraordinary thinking sometimes prove that from simple common things one can do something amazing. For example, for the manufacture of countertops with their own hands, it is not necessary to have construction skills. It is enough just to approach this issue with imagination.
How to make an unusual table top with your own hands?
In this article, we will look at the process of making a kitchen countertop with our own hands using epoxy resin and coins.
- The first stage will be the preparation of the working surface. If the installation of the countertop with your own hands is too complicated, you can simply remove the surface from the old one.
- Carefully remove the top layer and paint the substrate with paint. Complete cleaning is not necessary, the main thing is to ensure a sufficiently flat surface, so that you can fix all the coins.
- Before you make the tabletop with your own hands, you have to tinker with the preparation of the material. If you have the opportunity to spend some time and clear the coins that you have collected, you can make a special solution. In water, dissolve a small amount of vinegar and salt, and then we put there to soak the coins. After cleaning them with soda with water. A simpler option is to buy new coins in the bank. They are sold in small tubes.
- The problem with which you will absolutely surely come across is the trimming of coins or their bending.
- That's why the work on the kitchen counter tops will have to be done with curbs . Their height should be sufficient to allow coins to be stacked and a layer of epoxy to be poured on top.
- Unusual kitchen top with your own hands begins with the laying of coins. Additionally, you do not need to fix them.
- Fill all with epoxy mixture. Next, we let it dry and clean the top layer if there are bubbles on the surface. We apply special aqua-varnish for the final grinding.
- Fantasy countertop for the kitchen with your own hands is ready!
