The table that never dies

The black table is actually two tables. The legs come from a table that I pulled out of the trash at my first apartment in Wisconsin. The table top comes from a table I bought just after graduation, at a garage sale in Ames, Iowa. With my dad's help, I frankensteined the two together and refinished them in an ebony stain to match my IKEA chairs.

The table moved to Japan and was in our dining room for awhile, but once my giant table from Bali arrived, I took it apart and moved it to the storage room.

It did get used one more time in Japan, for a 12 person dinner party where I needed a second table. You had to sit on a few pillows on the couch, but it worked!

When we got to this house, it seemed sad to send it to the basement to die, but it was a little awkward in the kitchen. Glenn busted out the circular saw and cut off about a foot of one side and it works! Maybe it will get another makeover someday.

Also, my impulsive Pottery Barn Cubby Organizer purchase (it went on sale!) before we even left Japan works perfectly! I was hoping it would have a home in our future kitchen after watching a Sarah Richardson show on HGTV. She was renovating a family lake house and each person had a cubby spot labeled with their name for their coffee cup. I saw it over a year ago, but it always stuck in my head and even though there are only two of us and we usually use the same 3-4 coffee mugs. Now I'm just mad at myself for not collecting the Starbucks mugs in Japan and Asia. They had one for Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto and all the fun cities that we visited abroad.

 

Oh well, it appears we have enough mugs already! Although, if you happen to go through the Twin Cities airport Starbucks (Adam...), I'd love the Twin Cities/Minnesota mug!