Build a Gaming Table For Under $100

Thanks for watching! How have you built your gaming tables? Let us know in the comments below!

Roughly what weee the dimensions of the original table? Thanks!

Love the video. I'm currently on the hunt for my next table build myself, so this is fantastic to source. Can I ask you where you got your leather back chairs in this video too? those look fantastic!

I built my own gaming table, cost me about $350 due to increased cost of wood, then another $300 for the smart TV I put in the center of the table. It has a power plug in the center of each of the sides, 2 drink holders on 3 sides, with 1 drink holder on the gm side. Also 2 dice trays on 3 sides and 1 on the gm side. Since the surface with the TV is below the height of the sides, I have 3 inserts that I can put into the table to cover up where the TV is. But I like what you did for your table. It's a perfectly good table for what you want to do and is very frugal.

Thank you for this video! You saved me so much time and money lol. I needed to fit this in my bedroom so I made a rolling trundle that can be pulled out from the bottom to save space.

Lovely...except I have 8+1 at my table.

That little rectangle is just quaint.

Great video thank you

i think im going to do this exact thing.

This is the best thing I ever saw.

Glad to see you again. You were missed.

I understand so I just take a large piece of wood and I fix it on my table

I do construction, and yet here I am watching this video.

I will say I greatly appreciate it. This sort of thing is perfect for me and my group.

Since I don’t want to be the only one paying for it, this is more what I’m looking to do haha

i would suggest a couple of minor technical upgrades to the table:
1. i would screw in the extended table top from the bottom. this requires you to select the length of screws a bit more carefully so that they dont poke out the top, but it also means that you can remove the table top without destroying the fabric surface in case you want to move it out of the room.
2. i would staple the fabric on first before i add the decorative nails (they should not be what holds the cloth to the table as there are way too few) and do it by starting from the center of each side. this is the proper way to attach fabric to flat objects like when you are making canvas.
3. fold the excess of the fabric once over before stapling it down so that you get a clean edge of doubled up fabric all around the edge of the table. this doubles the strength of the fabric where the staples are to prevent them from ripping out and hides the frayed edge of the cloth.

Any reason you didn't use a staple gun?

I'm interested in knowing how well this has worked. Your original table seems kind of small for the purpose. Have you had problems with people on either end tipping the table when they lean on it?

I would recommend stapling or adhering the excess fabric to the bottom first before using the tacks, it will cut down on chances of creases and the like

Glad you’re healing!!!!! Take it easy and get well soon!!🤕

If you want easier disassembling, you can drill a hole through and use a bolt and wingnut to secure the table top to the legs. Super easy to later unscrew the wingnuts and breakdown for easier storage and moving!

I've found a ping pong table is excellent for a gaming table. Plenty of room for everyone to spread out and still have access to the battle map.

How to build a table:
1. Get a table

i live in perpetual scheduling fails so i only have online games. as a result i pour hours and hours of work into preparing visually details and mysterious maps that provoke lots of questions to project into a virtual table top platform where we gather cerebrally

I really appreciate this video - in an atmosphere that is more and more normalizing "boutique" play, it's nice to be reminded that simple and clean is plenty.

Does anybody else feel like he sounds like John Cleese's vocal stunt double?

I'm building a table and game room also. Do you have a name for those high back black leather chairs? I really like those.

Ive used kitchen tables, card tables, pool tables, dry erase boards, coffe tables....whatever is available

That is a fantastic table! I hope it brings many great adventures and future stories into your life.

Got an old refectory table. Absolute unit of a table and massive. You can get 8 people round it no problem with space for all the accoutrements that people like to bring. Sure, not quite as cost effective as this solution but multiple times cheaper than some purpose built tables one might care to mention.

OMG, was that a Little Wooden Boy cameo???

You Should have screwed the top in from the bottom if the table, not the top. This would allow you to easily remove the base from the top if you ever had to move it. Otherwise nice cheap build.

better than the table I don't have

Love it.

Guy: "Here's a hammer and here's some screws. You'll need these."

Me: having passed basic wood shop in high school "I have... CONCERNS."

Jokes aside, this did come out really nice for what looks like an hour or two of arts and crafts and some lucky dumpster diving.

For my own table, I would put a one inch padding arond the table to save arms.

Nice work sir!

Finally a DYI project that I can actually afford and make with my skills.
Now I just need a dedicated game room...

PS.: That painting on the wall is GLORIUS

Hey, Guy. Great job. A friend made the table that we currently use. It's similar to what you have, but instead of screwing the board to an existing table, he took the legs off an old folding table and screwed those legs to the board. Thus, the whole thing folds up and can be stowed away if you need to use the room for something else. Again, nice job. Hope you feel better.

This was fun to watch! Thank you Guy

I would run a piece of 3 inch XPS foam about 11 inches wide ( size of a book) around the whole thing. Cover it with a different colored piece of cloth and now you have a sunken and separated play area .

Underrated video Guy. 100% So awesome, simple and affordable. More people need to see this.

Yes to the intro, the amount of video that are like

'OK here is how you make a gaming table for cheap. You're going to need 1) time 2) effort 3) access to timber [4) a $10,000 workshop in your garage.]'

Love it! No dedicated gaming table yet, but I did make a Lego table with a lot of the same mentality, i.e., use something old, a little bit of new, and voila. I have been trying to figure out a top for it for gaming. Your video gives some wonderful ideas.

TLDR: Get yourself a rectangular table and cover it with cloth...

I've dreamed of what my future gaming space might be... But alas, I am just a renter.

Nice. My group plays on the dinner table, so a friend of mine made a riser frame, from cardboard, that lifts the game space up, and provides a nice gap to set things under the battle map. easy to plop down, easy to pack away.

Awesome build idea. Think I might cut some pool noodles in half, lengthwise, and affix them to the sides of the table. Just to keep people from knocking against the hard edges (and as a bonus, it’ll probably keep dice from rolling off the table.

References "other" builds requiring tools, knowledge, lucky finds.

Proceeds to get most expensive component of his table with a "lucky find".

I did something similar using a small dining table that opened up to add a leaf into it, except I used that to anchor in a 6x4 topper that I built from twin pine panels that I then sanded, stained, and sealed.

Still under $100.

For the most part I use folding table(s) with a purple bed sheet and no gm screen.

Something most of these "build your own" videos forget to mention, you slso need space, not just for the finished thing but also building space.

If you screw two Ikea Linnmon together, you get a 5ftx5ft gaming table.
Cheap, easy and light of weight...