This DIY has a bit of a backstory: In my basement workshop—as a byproduct of about a half dozen previous projects—I'd managed to accumulate a small mountain of scrap wood. Though the pieces varied in ...

2x4's are cheap and easy to work with, so the idea that you could make your own coffee table from a single piece of wood is pretty appealing. Instructables user StephanPi1 shows you how. Aside from ...