One of my lifelong dreams has been to make my own furniture.  And by lifelong dream, I mean this month.  And one of the first things I wanted to make was to turn an old door into a coffee table (or a desk, but we have enough desk space these days).  And so, I butched myself up over the weekend and did some heavy-lifting and heavy-drilling.

On Saturday, Debbie and I went to Sage and Relic to look for old doors.  While we didn’t find just the right door, we did find a very unique piece.  And with legs torn off a plain coffee table Debbie donated to the cause, I made the best coffee table ever.  Check out the pics:

Coffee Table 1Coffee Table 2

Super cute, right? We think so.

So, the big block of wood is what I bought at Sage. We have no idea what it is, but I remember the tag saying something about patterns. The roomie thinks that there is another half somewhere in the world that completes it. Which is super romantic (in a coffee table sort of way) and also a lot like my favorite movie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

[Complete tangent here, but do you know I have this as a tattoo?]

Anyway, so I attached the legs from the coffee table to the bottom of the table using a sweet drill and some perfect screws.
Coffee Table Legs

And with a little help from Ryan, we placed it in its beautiful new home. Tada! Beautiful, literally one-of-a-kind furniture, and at a steep discount from some legit antique or “nice” coffee table.

The next thing I want to do to the table is add a glass top above it. And I just need to have the glass manufactured (right?) for the right size and the right holes. It’s going to be super amazing. When I get around to it.