If you live in a compact space, sometimes you have to get creative with your furniture to make the most of it. This wall-hanging table design from [diyhuntress] is perfect for those situations where you need a table, but you don’t want it taking up the whole room when it’s not in use. Plus, it’s kinda stealthy, which makes it even more fun!
The table is a folding design, with a flat wooden top, and an equally-sized supporting leg that goes down to the ground. The other end of the table is supported by a frame on the wall, which also contains several shelves for small objects. The trick is that the table top and support are hinged together, so that they can fold up and sit in front of the shelves, essentially hanging the whole assembly from the wall. Even better, by painting a simple artwork on the support, the whole thing just looks like a decor piece with no clue as to its hidden functionality.
It’s a fun build, and one that you could easily knock out in a weekend with some basic woodworking skills. We’ve featured some other nifty shelf designs before, too. Just remember, too – a neat and tidy space is a boost to your hacker productivity, so don’t rule this out for your own use!
It begs for a way to lock the “foot” at 90°…
Great build otherwise!
That would be best. A simple method to do that is a chain between the table and leg.
It needs to lock both ways, or else you can still kick the leg under the table and everything goes on the floor.
Building the leg part as a similar shelving area would also look nice in both the up and own position…. much thicker when stowed though.
So don’t stow it ‘up’ stow it at ground level? – then it looks either like a table/bar with storage or a shelf unit with the table top ‘arty’ bit above that would probably read as a cupboard at a glance when slid closed. Also answers the fears above of locking the table top and leg relatively well – the shelf unit thickness and mass means actually knocking the table over would be very very challenging to do accidentally.
(though that method would end up a slightly different concept as the table top would probably not have hinges at at the wall unit end but some sort of captive peg so it can slide).
I think i found my next custom made soldering station. :-)
Wood screws into end grain don’t hold well for the hinges and they have a long lever attached to them to help pull them out. Best to use very long screws with modest bite pilot holes so as not to split out the solid wood.
um, it’s a Murphy table.
[beware the entertaining women who invite you into their dining parlors]
According to legend, Murphy was wooing an opera singer, but living in a one-room apartment in San Francisco, and the moral code of the time frowned upon a woman entering a man’s bedroom. Murphy’s invention converted his bedroom into a parlor, enabling him to entertain.
My fried has an ironboard with similar construction
IKEA has same solution here:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1087760116218342871/
Pinterest?? Really? In 2023? They didn’t go bust yet from every person on the planet blocking them?
WTF is wrong with you… pinterest.. FFS.
I’m with you, shod. Pinterest is a cancer on the internet, and blocked on my lan. And Nik, if Ikea sells the product, link to Ikea, not some third-party photo stealing turds.
Where I live, Aldi sold these desks a couple of times (special limited time offer, or I’d post a link!) The outer panel where the “art” is, was a whiteboard. When the whiteboard gets dented, it’s easy to replace it with masonite painted in chalkboard paint.
First thought… It would just get filled with junk placed on it “temporarily” then I’d never be able to put it up again lest I am required to find a place for or throw away the junk.
Second thought… looks like the minimalist, no-stuff yet somehow materialistic apartment that is so the rage these days. Probably not much to put on the table except drinks when entertaining guests.
Third thought… who lives that minimalist no-stuff life AND builds a table. How would one even do that? Buy the wood for just that project then shape it with one’s teeth? A maker’s life needs must be a cluttered happiness because tools… and scraps…
Conclusion… FAKE!