Home Improvements

Ken and I have come a long way since we first moved in to the Seattle apartment with nothing but clothes, boxes, and one chair.  Our newest addition is something that Ken had been scouring Craig's List for for months — a tree-cross section coffee table.

Most of the coffee tables we encountered were too expensive, so we hadn't acquired one until Ken found a guy on Craig's List selling tree cross sections.  He drove almost 2 hours to Shelton, WA and picked out the perfect table top last Saturday.  He then found another guy selling hair-pin legs, and picked up a set on Sunday.  We borrowed a power screwdriver from Lauren and Theresa, in exchange for chocolate covered raisins, and voilà; table.

And now for a photo of the finished product at home in the apartment.  You'll see we've placed the remnants of the tree on top of the remnants of a cow.

We still use a cardboard box as our bedroom side table, but we are clearly moving in the right direction.