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Is it me?

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Now that the new living room furniture is in place, it was time to start shopping for coffee tables. Ours are old and mismatched and bear too many dings and cat scratches to be serviceable.

After our nightmare replacement of windows, and doors, and floors…. I thought this would be a breeze. I didn’t want anything special, just one rectangle for in front of the couch and two square side tables in a medium wood finish. Drawers or no drawers. Stylish or plain. Traditional or modern.

I was leaving my husband at home… so I knew finding something to please me would be much quicker.

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Or not.

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I just wanted something simple.

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Something that didn’t look like a metal suitcase…

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Or a canoe.

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After five furniture stores…

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I came to the conclusion nothing is easy anymore.

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20 thoughts on “Is it me?”

  1. I’ve made two coffee tables in the past 12 years, and I helped our daughter make one. You probably wouldn’t like any of them (maybe our daughter’s). The two I made for my office were live edge slabs with metal bases. I gave both away before I retired – they weren’t coming home.

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  3. I think easy is what you make it. If you just want something you can live with, buy the first thing you see that answers that question. But if you ask, what will make me happy every time I see it, then nothing is easy. So what is your motivation? Function, or ego?

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  5. One of the upsides to being married to a very tall man, and there are many, is that my preference for minimalism meshes nicely with his need for space – so no coffee tables. Oddly enough, you may do better to look online. Have you tried an unfinished furniture store? They always have solid wood furniture that you can have ‘finished’ anyway you want it.

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    1. There are certain things I don’t like to buy online and furniture is one of them. Everything looks good in pictures but I have to feel the quality to be sure.
      The unfinished store is a good idea though.

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  6. My husband made our coffee table out of a slab of marble – mounted on a sturdy wooden base. Heavy as hell but everyone can put up their feet on the darn thing. Depends on what you want – I kind of like the canoe!

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