There must be something in the air, because everyone in the greater DC area seems to be redecorating. I’ve been swamped. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.
Despite the swamped-ness, slowly, slowly, I’m making progress on my own living room. I alluded to a new to-do list last time; #1 was “Paint fireplace.”
Check.
#2 was “Figure out coffee table situation.”
Check!
Here’s our old coffee table (and old sofa, old chairs, old rug, old lamp…)
It’s CB2’s Peekaboo coffee table. I bought it RIGHT when CB2 was born. (When was that? I can’t remember.) It’s a great table, actually, but it’s always been too small for this space. It looks great in our family room. I’ll show it to you, if I ever tidy up.
So I’ve been keeping a list of possible coffee table ideas. I say “ideas,” because I wasn’t prepared to spend upwards of $1k on a coffee table. Not at the moment, anyway.
I love this brass faux bamboo table from Mecox Gardens through 1st Dibs:
And the Jonathan coffee table, from Vastu – so elegant:
I like this one is from Vanguard Furniture:
And this Annie Selke coffee table, also available through Vanguard:
See the similarities? I seem to be drawn to iron framed glass or marble coffee tables.
Of course, I’d forgotten that I HAD an iron and glass coffee table a million years ago. I salvaged it from a DC store called “Ruff ‘n Ready” and painstakingly painted it black and gold, got glass for it…I loved that darn coffee table. But we let it go a few years ago, which of course I totally regret now.
Anyway.
I was sending my assistant on an Ikea run for various clients. So the night before, I was thumbing through the Ikea catalog in bed to see if there was anything *I* needed.
Lo and behold, look what jumped off the page:
The Klingsbo coffee table. It wasn’t gold, but it what it WAS was 70 bucks. At that price, I could spring for a few cans of Rustoleum. My brother was still visiting; I couldn’t let all that manpower (Uncle-power) go to waste.
Ready…ta daaa!
Not bad for $70 plus spray paint, right? It will do for now. I have other things to blow my budget on.
Like fabric to replace the orange parts of those 2 chairs.