12 Tables Made with Cinder Blocks, Economy Edition - Remodelista
Cinder blocks may bring to mind grad-student shelving, but we like them as ad hoc table bases. A cinder block shelf in the San Francisco studio of Emma Dime. A DIY shelf via Liden Skapelse. A night table made from salvaged cinder blocks in a 400-square-foot Upper East Side apartment. Photograph by Alan Gastelum for Dwell. Cinder blocks made colorful in a table at the artist-designed Playland Motel, in Rockaway Beach, New York. A DIY plant stand in the Portland, OR, home of John and Jen Vitale; photo by Carissa and Andrew Gallo via Freunde Von Freunden. A narrow DIY desk with a cinder block base, via The Merry Thought. A simple cinder block table in the Brooklyn loft of Hannah Metz, via The Selby. A cinder block bedside table, via Inside Inside. Photograph via The Improvised LIfe. A simple outdoor table by midcentury modern architect Marcel Breuer made from a rectangular slab of stone propped on a base of mortared concrete blocks. My own coffee table in Mill Valley, California, made from a walnut drafting-table top and four concrete blocks. A coffee table made from eight stacked concrete blocks. Legendary designer and antiques dealer Axel Vervoordt created an informal coffee table with concrete blocks and a slab of wood in this Belgian interior. Alert: It’s the last week to vote for your favorite finalists in the Considered Design Awards.