I love this beyond reason. I have stockpiled beautiful distressed wooden planks, many driftwood, and would love to make sturdy industrial bases for at least some of them. If you think there's a limit to the number of tables a lady needs, you're wrong!

Love it! Any idea what the total cost for supplies is? Fiona doesn't mention it on her blog.

This would make a great sewing table....I'm gonna try! :o)~

I just used copper piping to built two small side tables and put a lovely marble top on them. The January issue of Martha Stewart had three examples like this. Love them all! http://www.marthastewart.com/956288/industrial-chic-furniture/@center/277001/diy-decorating#953799

Love it so much! This is a great idea for a jewelry bench.

How unexpectedly classy! I would have never thought of plumbing pipes to make beautiful table legs, but there you go. Lovely.

I like all hadymade

You need to make sure you don't use black pipe, as the coating on it rubs off. This is a beautiful and steampunky desk, but I don't imagine it to be inexpensive (drat). I count 36 threadings that need to made on the pipes and threading services at plumbing stores vary widely, so shop around. And really take time to degrease the pipes, too, as when they are threaded, oil is used to lube the cutting process.

When I saw this on poppytalk I absolutely loved it! Simple and industrial and yet the room feels so warm with it. Great job!

As another commenter mentioned, I too was inspired by the tutorial in the Martha Stewart Living last month and made a custom little table to fit in a peculiar space in my San Francisco-sized bathroom. The tutorial was not amazing and did not address getting the pipes thread versus not threaded - I guess you'd used epoxy or something to connect the pipes and joint without threading? I went to Lowe's and they threaded them automatically while cutting them. The caveat with that is that they do not all come out perfectly identical and I had some uneveness in the table legs.

Mike In Hawaii above mentioned cost, and it was indeed costly. The pipes were super cheap, but the connecter pieces are not - each flange (round disk shown in picture) was about $9 per piece (x4)! I did use black pipe but the coating was not a problem at all. I just threw them in the sink with warm soapy water for a minute and scrubbed it off with an old brush - came off in a snap.

1/2 iron pipe is about $1 a foot (maybe 40 ft for a 4ft by 8ft table = $40)
T connectors are about $2 each ($2 x 12 = $24)
flanges are about $6 each ($6 x 4 = $24)
1/2" plywood is about $20 per 4ft by 8ft sheet ($20)
total = $108

or you can get something for free off craigslist...

oh, and hd and lowes cut and thread pipe for free if you ask

Epoxying the pipes together is, alas, not doable. The pipe must be threaded to fit into the flange. Threading has great advantages over epoxy, too. Once screwed together, that's it, not waiting. It's also adjustable in length, so nothing wobbles, but it doesn't hurt to be as accurate as you can during assembly.

For a table this length, I would not recommend anything less than 1" thick wood. The 1/2" plywood mentioned in the comments would sag under it's own weight across the 7 foot pipe span. An easy alternative (of you promise not to drop anything heavy on it) is the common hollow core door. Give it a good sanding, couple coats of polyurethane or a sheet of linoleum would do the job. If you can't resist dropping heavy things on it, use a solid core door :)

Anyway to do something similar in dining table dimensions?

I am a real estate agent in Tahoe and my husband is a contractor, so he always has junk left over from construction lying around. First home listed on this page charmingcabins.com on Cedar Crest we wanted the modern mountain look, but it ended up a little more rustic. I like this idea!