I may have asked this before; if so, apologies but if I did ask I didn't get solutions that worked for me.
I need to build a pair of sofa tables to wrap around a sectional; ie, the tables will be at right angles to each other. The distance along the long wing of the sectional is ten feet. I plan to make the tables about 16" wide and 28" tall.
My problem lies in where the tables will meet..they will have to be moved occasionally for cleaning/whatever so I need for them to be firmly joined but easily separated. I'm thinking of reducing the length of the tables themselves by 16" each and using a third piece at the juncture, 16" square and full width sides rather than separate legs (like a cabinet), but how to hook the whole works together?
I could, of course, simply screw each long table to the 16" square one but I'm looking for a more elegant way...one that doesn't make holes in the nice, expensive mahogany I'll be using. I also thought of putting a bracket on the 16" square table - I don't mind marring it - that would hook under the adjacent end rails of the long tables; with that scenario, each long table would only have legs at the outboard end. That could work but would leave the inboard end of the long tables unsupported when they are unattached; still, that's the best solution I've come up with yet.
Other ideas?