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Card Catalog Coffee Table

Where do the pictures hide on my computer?  I wish someone would tell me!  I am missing my “before” pictures of this card catalog, and I am not in the mood for hide-and-seek!

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Last summer a friend showed up at my door.  He had a piece of furniture for me to look at before he went to D.I.  Did I want first dibs?

At this point my garage was stuffed with furniture, so I was practicing my polite refusal…

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Then I saw it was a card catalog…a piece of one, actually…and I was a goner!

It looked like the middle section had been pulled out at some point.  There were no legs, and no top—just holes where pegs would have attached it to another section.

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I used a piece of wood leftover from building the sewing armoire to fashion a new top…

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…and a trip to IKEA supplied casters for some industrial-feel feet!

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I painted the whole thing in an off white, and then glazed and distressed it all to show off all the knicks and scratches.  I used Rub-n-Buff in pewter and black to tone down the original brass handles—mostly to make them blend in with the casters, which were silver!

I kind of intended to take some more/better pictures this afternoon, but it sold before I could do that.  Not that that’s a bad thing.

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Although I think this is a fun idea for a coffee table, I also thought it would be so cool at the end of a bed—to store gloves and scarfs, or maybe a variety of small toys.

Note:  Instructions for the Book Birdhouses can be found here.

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