Upcycling the Coffee Table

My coffee table is a handy wee thing, it's light, easy to shift back and forth with your foot, the perfect height to double up as a foot stool, extra seat or something to stand on if you need to reach something high up. And best of all, it was free!

It's an old suitcase table from a hotel which has been in the parents house for as long as I can remember. in fact I think it's probably older than me... And it has had various uses over the years, including being TV stand... And when I moved into the old house in Duisdale, the table moved to Skye and was reborn as a coffee table!

I was quite delighted to discover an almost identical coffee table in an interior design magazine priced at around £300 about a year ago! So bang on trend and totally FREE! :) But there was one thing wrong with it... It didn't have a shelf underneath to store my junk!... And I eventually decided I had to do something about this...

I had plenty of wood left over from other now redundant items of furniture and with a quick rummage, found what I needed to create my shelf! just a bit of trimming required on the wider planks and a few holes to fill...

However, before I started to fix the shelf, I first needed to give the whole thing a quick sand as it needed a new coat of varnish anyway, being a bit more brutal with the top of course...

Then on with the drilling, screwing, hammering and glueing!

And the first coat of varnish!

Several coats of varnish later and it's complete! And I can safely say, It's well used! In fact I'm not sure how I survived without it before now!...