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Pottery Barn Inspired Barrel Top DIY

• By Joan
• September 25, 2017
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When I was making my Lazy Susan tray last week, I googled Lazy Susans, mainly to find out where you could find the spinning part if you didn’t happen to find one at a thrift store, and I found this  Barrel Top Lazy Susan from Pottery Barn.  It’s beautiful, it’s rustic, it’s $199.  Now I want one!  I don’t actually want to buy one, I just want one.

If I were to make my own, I didn’t happen to have a wine barrel but I did have a barrel hoop.  A barrel hoop is almost as good as a barrel.

I didn’t have any barrel slats either but I did have pallet wood.  Pallet wood is almost as good as barrel staves.

For the base, I’m pairing my barrel hoop with this pine table round from Home Depot. It was so close to being the perfect size.

Also needed for this project a 6-Inch Square Lazy Susan Turntable,  and a wood piece for the bottom (another thrift store find).

The table round was really close to being the same size as the barrel hoop but I did have to chop a little off.

I had found the barrel hoop at a yard sale last year.  It was covered in rust but after a little sanding it was perfect.

I sealed the hoop with polyurethane.

And stained the table round with dark walnut.

Pallet wood is going to stand in for the barrel staves. Each pallet wood piece was cut to 3 1/2  inches, sanded then glued in place with  GOOP Adhesive .  Clamp and let dry. I could only work on 6 staves at a time, the number of clamps that I had.

For the top, I had another logo all picked out and ready to go but the night I was working on this project I happened to have dinner out with my book club at White Oak Tavern.  We talked about the book a little but the entire dinner I’m eyeing the restaurant’s logo and loving the tree.

My new logo has been found.

Editing in Microsoft Publisher I changed the Tavern to a vineyard  (fits a little better with the theme) and added a date, which just happens to be the year I got married.

Publisher allows you to make any size publication, this one is 23″, the size of my cut down pine circle.

Also, using their Word Art, I can use any font and bend it around my circle.

Printed out my new logo and taped back together.

This is just black chalk rubbed on the back of my sign.  You can also use pencil as you’ve seen me do many, many times.  And no, I still don’t have any transfer paper.

Taped the sign in place, and transferred the  lettering and tree by outlining with pen. Fill in with paint.

I attached the table round to the pallet wood with 2 1/2 inch finishing nails and a nail gun.

The Lazy Susan spinner was screwed on to the wood tray and to the bottom of my wine barrel.

The top and pallet wood sides were finished with vintage wax.  While the wax was still wet, I added a little black paint into the corners and blended with  the middle.

Who says you need a wine barrel to make a wine barrel Lazy Susan?

Stay inspired and have a fantastic week.

With this project I get to update last years flea market flips picture. You can see the barrel hoop all the way on the right leaning against the yellow trunk. Yes, I do have another one , but it may take me another year to figure out what to do with it.

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