MOBILE SERVING CART

In everyday life, the kitchen typically serves as both a kitchen and a dining room: breakfast and dinner are eaten here, children are fed here, because everything is at hand.

But sitting down at the table with a large family or numerous guests is preferable in a spacious room. This means dishes need to be carried from the kitchen and back. In this case, a tray helps. But it’s still better to have a serving cart on wheels. Its advantages are capacity and mobility.

The design proposed by the Hungarian magazine “Észermester” is distinguished by both simplicity and originality, as it combines the functions of both a cart and a tray.

The base of the table is actually a cart, consisting of two vertical panel-posts, connected at the bottom by a horizontal shelf, and at the top by two bar-ties. A removable tray with two handles is placed on the latter, which has rails-limiters on the bottom that fix its position on the ties.

Under the lower shelf on the sides, two support bars similar to the ties are installed. They play a triple role: they duplicate the ties for greater structural strength; they support the shelf as stiffening ribs; finally, they serve as a kind of side members for mounting the wheels.

All wooden parts can be sawn from furniture board or particle board. Their connection options can be any: using inserted round dowels, nails, screws with glue (carpenter’s glue, PVA) or a combination of these options with fastening using furniture metal corner brackets.

In the post blanks, horizontal holes serving as handles are drilled and widened at the top; corners are cut off, and edges are then rounded with a plane or a file with coarse teeth. Similarly, wheels can be made from wooden blanks, but it’s better to use metal or plastic ones from children’s toys or utility carts. Axles should be installed with such calculation that when moving, the cart does not scratch the floor and does not catch rugs or runners lying on it.

The most effective type of finishing for such a serving cart is painting with bright enamel paints after preliminary thorough surface treatment with sandpaper.