Stained Glass Window to Coffee Table

 Hello Readers. I wanted to turn a stained glass window into a coffee table. Why? It was pretty and I had no place to hang it up. It was fast and easy to change it to  table. Let me show you.

One of a kind thanks to my MIL.

 

This picture is about 25 years old. (That is my husband, daughter and nephews having dinner and grandmother's house.) The stained glass window is hanging above the kids. It was always there as far back as I can remember.
 

This window was so pretty and it was given to me by my mother-in-law when she down-sized. It is special to us but I just did not have a place to hang it in my house. We tried to find a spot for it for about a year. There was no good place. My daughter suggested a table.

 

Before I did anything permanent, I put the window on these wire baskets to see if I liked it as a table. We lived with this for a couple weeks. It looks questionable but it helped me be sure I liked it and the size was great for a coffee table.
 

This window was heavy. The hook that was drilled into the frame seemed large enough that it would have gone at least a couple inches into the frame. That told me I could drill into the outer edge of the frame to add legs to this window. But first, I needed to remove this hook and chain. 

My husband used pliers to twist open the chain link and remove it.

He twisted the hook around until it was loose and then he removed it from the frame.

I ordered these metal table legs from Amazon. There were many options and heights... whatever style you want, it's out there. The set came with all the screws we needed.

The window frame had couple marks on it. I wanted those marks to be hidden so they will go on the underside of the table. I put the window down on the floor and put the good side down. 

With the good side down on carpet to protect it, we could mark where the screws would go. We centered the leg in the corner and made a dot where each whole should go. You can see the style of the legs would allow us to drill along the outside of the window frame and not drill too close to the glass.

My husband used a drill to make small holes where we had marked the frame. He used a very narrow drill bit, smaller than the screws we were going to use. These holes will make it easier to put the screws in and keep them straight.

The next step was to use the drill to put in the screws. We lined up the holes from the leg with the holes in the frame. We changed the drill bit to a Phillips head drill bit so we could turn the screws. We could have done this with a screw driver, but this was much faster. We attached all 4 legs in the same manner.

 

 We flipped the table over and it stood very nicely on the legs. 

I wanted to camouflage the holes where the hooks had been. I needed some fine grit sandpaper just to smooth the edges of the hole. I didn't have any, so I used a nail file. It worked great for this tiny job.

I picked up some wood filler from the store and tried to match the color of it to the frame. 

I smoothed the filler over the holes with gloves. I didn't want it to stick to my skin. 

I wiped the excess off the frame with a wet paper towel to clean it up where needed. 

The table was done. I was happy we were able to use it in such a pretty way at our house. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.