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  • This Old House

    home solutions

    Jun 07, 2019 5 minutes
    Edited by Kate Wood

    Tile an outdoor tabletop

    Liven up an outdoor space by brightening a plain tabletop with multihued glass mosaic tile. Homeowner Kate Riley, who blogs at centsationalstyle.com, built the simple table here using a base of 2×4s and a 1× top, but you could easily add tile to an existing table. One bonus of building from scratch: Kate avoided cutting tile by sizing her 18-inch-wide tabletop to fit one and a half 12-inch-square, mesh-backed sheets. A tile tabletop is a fairly easy DIY—and even better, it’s a snap to maintain. For an overview of how this project came together, turn the page.

    Tiled tabletop how-to

    Since this homeowner lives in Southern California, moisture isn’t a worry: She simply sanded her wood surface, then primed and painted it, using

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