Give Your Narrow Entryway An Artistic Table Feature With A Paver DIY

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Cement pavers make it incredibly easy to DIY a walkway or border in your yard. Although heavy, the small size makes them simple to move around and place where you need. Their solid construction will keep pavers intact and firmly placed, regardless of the elements. Their presence brings a well-landscaped look that will increase your home value. 

Often when completing a DIY paver project, you will have some pavers left over which can be put to good use indoors. Their sturdiness and industrial appearance usually make them helpful for practical purposes rather than decorative. For instance, you may have used a stack of pavers to hold up a sagging bed frame or placed them under a sofa to balance out a missing leg. But with a little paint, a stack of pavers can be transformed from looking like construction site debris to an artistic custom entryway table. This project is quick and easy enough for anyone who can use a paintbrush and some glue. It's also relatively cheap, especially if you have some extra pavers hanging around in your garage or shed.  

You can use any size pavers or even rectangular concrete blocks for this project — whatever you have on hand or can find for the best price will work. In the video by @ChicandSleek, four stacks of three pavers are used per side. You can get similar 7-inch by 7-inch square concrete pavers at Lowe's for $1.86 a piece, bringing your paver budget to around $45. Glue together three pavers per stack, making eight stacks in all using KRAKEN BOND Ultra Grab construction adhesive ($8). 

Stand all stacks horizontally, then glue four stacks together to create the legs. You can stack them in perfect lines, or stagger each stack slightly, as in the video. Paint your pavers using your preferred color. Next, you'll need a board that is wide enough to cover the top of the pavers. This RELIABILT spruce pine board ($12.48) is the perfect size at 12-inches by 3-feet and would not require any cutting. Glue the board to the table legs, then paint the board to match. 

This thin entryway table will fit in virtually any space and welcome visitors to your home with serious flair. It's also budget friendly. Even if you have to purchase all of your materials (including a quart of paint which is around $20), your budget comes out to around $85. That's a pretty good price for a jaw-dropping custom piece!

You can get the budget down even more if you opt for 12-inch by 12-inch square concrete pavers. These cost 10 cents less per paver, and since most entryway tables are around 30 inches, you would only need three stacks of pavers per side (18 pavers in all, around $32).

Of course, you can also forgo the use of concrete pavers altogether. Any stacked objects with a board glued on top can make an entryway or console table. You can try the look with stacked blocks of wood, or can even make an entryway table with IKEA salad bowls. Two of these Generic plastic drum side tables would be the perfect height and create a colorful, modern entryway table that looks very high-end. 

Book lovers can use stacks of books to create a table perfect for an entryway, library, or office space. Faux stacked book sets (like these from Redesigned Basics) are currently all the rage, and you can get book stacks in a variety of colors.