coffee table makeover

some months ago, mr.plain built me a coffee table.

my brief at the time was;

industrial.  solid.  steel. with big wheels.

he complied with this.

which, at the time, i loved.

it was exactly to spec. 

but didn't really suit our space.  (not that i told him that of course!)

a giant road case in my living room.

i decided that the problem was the material.  too much silver for such a 'wood' oriented room.

i usually like to ground spaces with nature when i am styling a room.  play it up with colour/metallics and then ground it with nature.

it needed a wooden top.

i was lucky enough to have inherited metres and metres of hardwood floorboards from a gorgeous girlfriend, and a couple of those boards could be spared to give the table a new personality.

we mixed 2 colours of stain to get a bespoke, vintage industrial colour, and also got a hammer out and beat the wood up a little.

i adore it.

the wood has 'aged' perfectly with the stain.  it looks a similar vintage to the wooden vessel sitting on top of it.

bye-bye roadcase,  hello coffee table!

jane xx