We had a sofa.
But we didn't have any end tables.
And we didn't have any lamps for the end tables...that we still didn't have.
My husband got to work on CL and found some perfectly serviceable matching end tables, but they were a country-ish-knotty-pine-like style.
Um... but, they were only $20 each.
Suddenly, knotty pine didn't seem so bad. A little black paint and a couple of ceramic replacement drawer pulls from Anthropologie, and we had ourselves some end tables. Nothing fancy, but the size and height are perfect and the black plays nicely with other details in our living room.
But we didn't have any end tables.
And we didn't have any lamps for the end tables...that we still didn't have.
My husband got to work on CL and found some perfectly serviceable matching end tables, but they were a country-ish-knotty-pine-like style.
Um... but, they were only $20 each.
Suddenly, knotty pine didn't seem so bad. A little black paint and a couple of ceramic replacement drawer pulls from Anthropologie, and we had ourselves some end tables. Nothing fancy, but the size and height are perfect and the black plays nicely with other details in our living room.
The lamps were a Craigslist find, as well, at only $20 each. They had an interesting kind of Asian deco look, so why wouldn't I want to mix it all up to create "Asian cabin chunky deco". The battered lamp shades reeked of cigarette smoke so badly I had to find a dumpster to trash them on my way home from purchasing them! I painted the lamp bases with some burnt orange paint (which I already had) to cover the original bronze-y finish and bought new shades at LampsPlus, which cost twice as much as the lamps did!
What I learned from this project:
1. Good quality lamp shades are not cheap, but look great so are worth the price.
2. I had to seal the table tops with polyurethane later since stuff kept sticking to the table tops and pulling up the paint.
3. Our cats think the tables are their personal diving boards.
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