We imagine somewhere, some guy needed a work surface. Maybe a place to roll out some drawings or eat his lunch. He had a door and he had two saw horses. And voila - this industrious, use-what-you've-got design was born. Now we see sawhorse tables manufactured at all price points and in plain or fancy finishes. But the design retains its industrial, homemade allure...
Sawhorse Tables
FIRST ROW:
• 1 West Elm's sawhorse worktable, $449
• 2 from Apartment Therapy San Francisco's Inspiration: Green Walls at Ilse Crawford-Designed Aesop
• 3 A zinc-topped version from Wildflower Organics, $1590
• 4 From Apartment Therapy Chicago's Look! Upside Down Sawhorse Table
• 5 The Sawhorse Leg Table from Wisteria, $1000
FIRST ROW:
• 6 Apartment Therapy Boston's Lerberg Table Legs from IKEA
• 7 A DIY sawhorse table made on a budget using Craigslist finds, via Coco Cozy. We prefer this table to its inspiration, which brings us to...
• 8 the $1400 Mason Glass Top Desk from Williams Sonoma
If you like the look and want to make your own (in the original spirit of the sawhorse table), check out Apartment Therapy New York's Good Questions: Where Can I Find These Sawhorse Table Legs At a Cheaper Price? and Apartment Therapy Boston's Good Questions: Resources for Industrial Sawhorse?
Comments (8)
Daily Email
Top Tours
- Becke & Lee's Vintage Cabin
- Lauren and Eric's Mixed-Use Modern Dwelling
- Chris's Ontario Beach House
- Nick, Jane & Luca's Colorful Space
- Judy's Sunny & Stylish Family Home
Top Posts
Today in Marketplace
© 2009 Apartment Therapy
Glass tables are my cleaning nightmare.
view Rouncewell's profile
love the rug
what is it? where can you get it?
view eml35's profile
Sawhorse tables LOOK nice, but I wonder about cracking one's knees...
view SherryBinNH's profile
I think the sawhorse design is inefficient -- the legs take up too much room.
view heather77's profile
I'm not a big sawhorse table fan....but some people seem to be able to make them look innovative.
view baileyb's profile
hmmm.... i like those red ikea legs!
view Matt. M's profile
I have had an Ikea Sawhorse table since aroud 1997, and it's been awesome. However, the lack of storage is proving to make me want a traditional desk soon. SherryBinNH - I've never cracked my knees on mine...all good!)
view iheartdesign's profile
My Dad had one of these. He's an architect, and his looked much like the one from West Elm with chrome sawhorse legs & a heavy glass top. He had it for over 25 years if not more. Last year the glass was accidently cracked, and the table was put out of commission. I remember when I was a kid, my dad rigged up some lights to hang under the bottom and he made a giant tracing table out of it!
view heater's profile