People say this when things are not going great. Like me!

I wanted to make a side table. One that you can slide over your couch. Something that should look like this.

But mine didn’t look like that. No, I thought I would do my own thing. And because I used to make some lego star wars thing without the instructions (it never turned out right) I took the instructions and said “nope.”

This was a bad idea. Because my table was diagonal. Somehow. So I tried to work with it. And that was weird. Me and my buddy Thomas made all the cuts we could. He had tools. Which is my next step in my DIY bildungsroman: to get tools. Power tools. Tools of a man. A real man. A real man with real chest hair. But I am not that man. Not yet.

I am going to make this damn side table. I will not quit. Because this thing is cool. I pulled the side table from this weird German DIY site, but I translated it and from there it was pretty universal as to how to make it.

But this is where twodumbhands gets interesting. I want to post everything. Everything I try, succeeding with glory or failing to the point where I land back on the couch and only get up for pizza I have delivered to my door. Because everything I make will not always work out. Like John Lennon said “You may say I am a dreamer/ but I’m not…”

I will probably use the same pieces of wood that I tried to use for this table, because it’s free. I found it in an alleyway and it’s really good wood. This is what makes DIY projects exciting: how cheap can you do it? This project was completely free except for the brackets and screws I had to buy, which was $3. More on that when I actually have it made.

Next time I will follow the rules to a tee, and we will see how that works out. I may try to use copper (because copper is cheap and rules) for the legs. As long as the base is heavier than the wood on top, then I should be in business.

I succeeded on making my first fail post. You’re welcome.