Sometimes Simple and Cheap is Okay
I had another crazy idea this weekend. The hubs squashed it. Okay, so it was a mutual squashing. Here’s what I was thinking – we need a console table behind our sofa.
My only reasoning? Because I wanted a place to put two identical lamps, nice and symmetrical, behind the sofa. Giving us balanced light on each side of our arrowhead framings. Simple enough right?
Except our living room is a bit too narrow for such shenanigans.
It’s a little tough to tell by the photo but with the doggie window bench to your far left and the orange Craigslist chair I was leaning over to take this photo, almost all traffic routes through our living room would be a whole foot tighter if I kept my sofa table dreams intact.
After 64,548 hours of staring at the sofa table prototype we rigged up, and a couple of nightmares about unbalanced furniture layouts while I “slept on it” it was time to admit defeat. It’s okay, I’ve been here before I can handle it. Tantrums will be held to a minimum.
But just for fun here was my idea. It might work for you if your living room is not as narrow as ours. First, I snagged two ClosetMaid stackable organizers from Tar-jay for $9.99 each. They were on sale due to all the young people going to college this month and such. They were each 31″ tall and one foot wide. The faux wood finish was very IKEA cheap but simple enough to become an easy table with bonus storage. I was pretty psyched about the whole idea. Baskets were to be involved.
The top was going to be a one foot wide, eight foot long board from Lowes merely attached to the top of the two organizers which would serve as the table legs. Get it?
Could have been great. Darn narrow living room. Oh well, luckily this isn’t the end of the world for any of us. It just would have been nice if it had worked out. Here is where we landed after all the drama.
The secret to this set up? I get to buy a new lamp for the guest bedroom because that’s where I stole the brass one from. Shhh don’t tell the Mr.
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