Coffee table

We made this a month ago but I just haven't blogged about it yet. Sorry I'm slow but I thought that I would share my beautiful coffee table that Brandon and I made.

My neighbors and I have been obsessed with this new blog knockoffwood.blogspot.com she gives tutorials on how to do your own woodworking. And I LOVE IT!! I get so excited when I read her blog about new wood projects when we move to Tennessee I would love to do more, I would do more now but since we are moving soon I don't want to have to move it all. Anyway my neighbors made shelves and Brandon and I made a coffee table. We love our coffee table it turned out much better than I imagined ( I was so nervous to make it because I had never made anything with wood before in my life so I didn't have very high expectations of our first project) Thankfully I have an AMAZING husband who was willing to do a lot of work. My neighbors and I went to Home depot together and got the wood and had them cut everything. Basically we walked in handed a guy the list of materials that we needed and how they needed to be cut (that we printed off of the blog) and we literally walked around with him and watched him do everything for us. He was so nice and so willing to help it was great. I still wouldn't be able to tell you where the wood was in the store or anything that's how clueless I was, and still am. Anyway, we assembled everything together that same day and sanded and painted/stained a few days later. It was so much fun. I highly recommend the blog. You can save so much money as well. Pottery barn sells the same type of coffee table for $300 and all the materials and everything only cost us about $40. I am so happy with what we did. Here are some pictures to show the process so you know that we really did in fact make it our selves.

Here is our frame and my neighbors working on their bookshelves in our apartment.

Brandon screwing in the screws He really was amazing in this whole project!

My neighbors finished bookshelf (they made 4 all together ) they are awesome and so easy we can't wait to make our own book shelves.

Our coffee table all put together.

The final project!! I am so pleased with our table I still can't believe that we did it!! Thanks to knockoffwood.blogspot.com. You all should really check it out!!