How To Make A Ceramic Tile Table Top

I tiled my patio in 2011 and i absolutely hated the entire experience.

How to make a ceramic tile table top.

Determine the size of your tabletop. First in an excerpt from her popular video creative tile making angelica pozo shares her technique for making a cut tile mosaic table top. Let me show you how to tile a table top or any furniture or decor piece the simple way. The tabletop installation shown here uses thinset for the adhesive but if the table is primarily decorative and won t receive heavy use use organic mastic as the adhesive.

To make it easier try to create a pattern that requires no tile cutting. Your table is beautiful and i am inspired. Tile a table top. More tiling in store for today.

In today s post we ve gathered two great resources for those interested in making a ceramic mosaic table top. Our table with two sizes of stone tile cost about one fifth the cost of a store bought table. Then clay cunningham explains how he made a mosaic table top out of an old broken patio. How to put ceramic tile on a tabletop.

Use a pencil to mark out your design. You guys know i m a sucker for a tiled surface. For example if your tile is 3 8 thick and your table is 1 5 thick you would need a strip 1 7 8 wide. Cut the plywood to size based on the tile pattern you have created.

I will share that i wanted to tile a table several years ago and instead used painters tape to create a tile like grid had my children and neighbors use oil pastels on the individual squares and then put a super thick self leveling sealer on like the kind used on wood in bars top. If a 2 piece is more readily available that is fine allow the excess to project below the bottom of the table top. If the table is severely warped sand it with a belt sander first. Ask to see a porcelain or stone tile or a combination that ll withstand harsh weather conditions.

We expanded the size of our table by fastening a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood to the top of table. Aside from being attractive tiled tables are durable making them an especially fitting choice for a patio balcony or poolside deck. I ve done quite a few tiled projects around here. This tabletop is made from a plywood core wrapped in cement board sealed with a paint on membrane and then covered with ceramic tile and grout.