Bogtrotter Designs

Good Morning! I am happy to share my DIY   coffee table project. I hope you like it! I have a beautiful glass-topped and metal base coffee table that I somehow manage to bang my shin into every.single.day.  No joke.  My left leg looks like I was in ten rounds with a dragon.  I decided to buy a new coffee table, preferably one with storage for my driftwood hoarding problem. The only thing stopping me was that I'm always "funds-impaired." I saw a pretty rough footlocker/trunk for sale on Facebook's "Marketplace." Luckily it was still available for the bargain price of $5.00.  SCORE!!  I brought it home.  The black fabric covering it was torn in places and it was missing a portion of the locking latch. Big deal.  If your friends comes over and notices a missing portion of the locking latch on your footlocker/trunk coffee table, they aren't your friends! Here is the footlocker before:  I can see in my head what it's...

I have a very small bedroom and a very large driftwood collection.  You see, I'm an artsy type.  I craft sculptures and home dec items out of shells, seaweed and driftwood.  I have sorted all of my supplies and have them stored in various sized plastic bins.  One day, it all got to be too much. I basically couldnt walk in my bedroom. But I couldn't work out of my basement because it's HUGE SPIDER CENTRAL.  Gross! I was also tired of lugging everything out of my bedroom into the kitchen in order to work the counter.  This became problematic for my housemate also, who took exception to my half finished projects lying about so that he was unable to use the stove.  LOL I had a beautiful four post bed that took up 60% of the floor space.  It had to go. I did some research on Youtube on how to construct a simple platform bed. I modified the legs of that project and made my new platform bed's legs four feet tall instead of 13" tall.  With a...