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...

Hello, gentle readers! Please be aware:  My blog contains adult subject matter   i.e.  occasional colorful language, references to wine, and perhaps a photo of a DIY injury or some such other nonsense. LITTLE BROWN BLAH TO COASTAL GLAM I have had these two small cubed trunk end tables for twelve years.  I lent them to my son when he had his first apartment, but alas,  the cubes came home.  Not that there's anything wrong with them...but I'm just sick of BROWN.  They have a nice crocodile texture. I got them at HomeGoods on clearance since one is missing part of a latch.  Who cares?  For $30 each, I didn't.   And anyway let's face it....If a friend comes into your house and notices a missing latch on your end table, she's not your friend. So I agonized over what to do with these things, and it only got worse after I remade my awesome antique machinist's chest.  (that's another post) I googled TRUNK END TABLES and finally...