Japanese Style Pet Bowl Stand

For this build, I wanted to build something nice for my dog, as sometimes I think it's a struggle for him to eat, as he's quite tall and his bowls sit on the floor, but I wanted to add a twist to just any dog bowl stand. So I decided to implement some Japanese design, I did this by browsing the web for different models I could take inspiration from, I found that Amazon was the best option as they have many different varieties and there were many to choose from.

Link to Amazon table

Link to a simple dog bowl stand

• Wood pieces (pallets work well)
• Wood glue
• Kreg Jig Screws
• Dog Bowls
• Measuring tape
• Any decently sized bit
• Wood jigsaw blade

Tools:

• Miter Saw
• Kreg Jig
• Wood planer
• Jigsaw
• Drill

For the initial part of this project, I selected my wood pieces, initially, you will need to decide on the size of the stand, this will impact the size of wood you get. For this build, I picked out some pieces that were laying around that could be cut into various smaller pieces.

Something that is useful to do before cutting the pieces is running them through a planer, this is important because all of the pieces for the leg and such need to be the same size. The small pieces in the first picture are the legs, which I cut them down to 2 inches, and the four pieces beneath them are the side beams, which are slightly taller but are still 2 by 2's. The tool I used for the cuts was a miter saw, this was just the easiest tool that I could use for the job and it did the trick just fine.

After you have all of your leg pieces cut out, you'll need to glue them down like so, the longer pieces are in the middle and the shorter pieces are on both ends, we are looking for a wider table with less height rather than a really tall table with a short length.

For your next step, I will show you the top of the table and the pieces that go between the top of the table and the legs (the four small squares located at the bottom left of the picture) of the table. The measurement for the top of the table is 19 inches by 11 inches. This means that the total width of the legs is also 19 inches. The total height of the table is 8.5 inches.

A follow-up of the last step is shown here with me gluing down the pieces mentioned, (separators between the top of the table and the legs) along with me demonstrating the Kreg jig job that I did. For this step you have to be extremely careful and make sure you take precautions with your measuring and drilling the screws in, this is because you will have to cut out two holes in order to insert the dog bowls. For this top, I drilled three screws in, one in the very center of the table, and one screw in both corners, I also made sure to include some wood glue in the spots where I didn't screw down anything to ensure more stability.

After you've waited 30 minutes to an hour for the wood glue to dry and for all your pieces to be ready, you will need to drill your dog bowl holes. For this, I used a drill and a decent-sized bit to make a hole big enough for a jigsaw to fit into and cut them out like so, both of these holes are 4 inches since my dog bowls are a little smaller than four inches in length.

This step is one that looks quite simple but in reality, it may be a tiny bit tricky! As you can see, all you need to do for this is to glue down the top part of our stand to the bottom part, what's tricky about this is the fact that both legs have to be exactly at the edge, I had a little bit of trouble getting them to look even but I got it figured out soon enough. To glue these pieces down, all I needed was a bit of wood glue.

You've completed all the steps required to build your own dog bowl stand. Some additional steps to this may be to paint it according to your liking, you've seen how to make the table's basics, now the rest is up to your imagination!