Permission to indulge in a “look what I did!” moment? Thank you! :)
The living room in our last house was a lot larger than our living room now. And so our living room furniture has never really seemed to fit in our new space here. The culprit? Our ginormous Ikea Lack coffetable. While amazingly functional, it was just far too large for our room.
And so began the search for a new place to rest my coffee. :)
Then, one day, while scouring the local Kijiji-pages (er, website) I found a listing for a rather beat-up looking glass-topped coffeetable. Price? $15. My reaction? Sold!
Here’s what the beast looked like when I picked ‘er up.
She was scratched. She was dented. She had random patches of forest green peeking out from under her white exterior. She was a sad looking coffeetable indeed.
So I pulled out my primer (BullsEye in the blue can is my go-to primer for everything – it rocks) and my Snowfall White paint (all the trim in my house is painted BM Snowfall White, so I seem to always have some on hand) and one weekend later (following the accepted furniture painting rules: sand, prime, paint, admire), I now have a much prettier place to rest my coffee. :)
I switched out the old pull (it was wood, it was icky) on the (fake) drawer for an inexpensive ORB pull I picked up at Rona. Much better. :)
Some of the drips from the previous owner’s (rather abysmal) painting job still show through (even though I sanded the dickens out of the table before priming it) but I’ve decided that they add character. And, really, unless you’re taking a ridiculously closeup picture of my pretty new pull, you don’t really notice the drips in person. :)
Sadly, in all honesty, I’m not 100% sure (after alllllll that) that this is the right coffee table for our space. While our Ikea table was too long, this one is too… square. And also too big. Again. Sigh. It too seems to take over the entire living room.
And I’m already missing the handy-dandy storage shelf that was under my large Lack Ikea table – it always came to the rescue whenever I needed to quickly move things (remotes, my laptop, random bills, my copy of Blogging for Dummies) out of sight.
And, well, I’m also sort of wishing I would have jumped (just a wee bit) outside of my paint-it-white-and-it’ll-be-alright comfort zone and painted the table dark (since EVERYTHING in our living room is white now. I’m all for uniformity, but this might be a little much.)
BUT, it’s BETTER. For now. At least until I decide if it’ll become a permanent fixture in our room, or if it’s hitting the selling-block once again, or getting another (sigh) coat of paint, this time in deep charcoal or something snazzy like that. Or maybe I’ll just give in and get a larger living room (unlikely, but it could happen!) I’ll letcha know what I decide. :)
