Faux Sofa Table

I don't want to commit to a sofa table at this time and saw this idea on Pinterest. Rather than cough up a hundred bucks or more on a sofa table, I spent $21 at Home Depot for two L-brackets and a 10 inch wide by 8 foot long birch shelf.


I stained the board using a gel stain in deep mahogany that I had in my garage from another project. While waiting for the stain to dry, I screwed the L-brackets into the wall. I then waited, waited and waited for the stain to dry. After 4 hours, I had a new (faux) sofa table.

This was probably the easiest project I have yet to do on Pinterest. The most difficult part of this experience was waiting for the stain to dry on the shelf (that really tests your patience :-).