I wanted to make some little tables and chairs to dress up the inhabited parts of encounter areas. I watched a half-dozen or so videos by the usual suspects… and then ended up just kind of winging it based on an assortment of techniques and the bits and pieces of craft woods (and a little scrap foam) that I had lying around.
There were some little end tables and coffee tables made more or less as described in this Crafting Muse video, but I went with slightly smaller beads and used wood circles underneath as support rather than clear plastic. The shelves pictured were made out of thin XPS strips left over from some other project.
A few stools and chairs were made with small round and square wood pieces and crafting sticks. I used hot glue out of necessity to be able to get the sticks into place quickly, and more or less made it up as I went along. I got everything assembled and then tried to stand each piece up, then trimmed down the legs as needed until each one was able to stand on its own on a flat surface.
Chairs and stools wouldn’t be worth much without tables or desks to pull them up to, so I made a handful of those as well. I started from DM Scotty’s video about modular tables and made a few of those with different support configurations – spools, legs, and pairs of wood slats a support cross-bar in between. Then I put together some more standard tables in several shapes and sizes, including a couple of tall round ones more appropriate for the stools to pull up to.
Now, with a tupperware container full of assorted wooden furniture, I need to work on more items to stack on top of it!