Before and After: Take a Guess!

before

Joel Hester takes old automobile parts and turns them into something else entirely. We were blown away by how cool this is. Take a look at what Joel turned this Chevy hood into, after the jump!

after

It's a coffee table! From Joel: Using the colorful and rusted sheetmetal of old American cars and trucks, no two tables are ever the same. Brand new steel tubing creates the chassis by which these resurrected tops reside. At the base of each leg resides an adjustable foot that will adapt to any uneven hard surface floor so that the table will never rock uneven.

• Joel Hester via Design Milk

(Oops, this post was prepped ahead of time, before it was also blogged here.)

Comments (12)

I said "Wow!" as soon as I scrolled down! I mean, wow...that is really cool! I like it a lot. I really want one!

i like apartment therapy, but i sometimes wonder if you guys that put this stuff on here actually look at the site yourself. someone already put up something about this same exact thing earlier this afternoon.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/green-ideas/furniture-made-from-old-cars-by-joel-hester-064871

ditto to dM, and not just on this post, but in general. Every week at least 5 posts are repeated all by different posters!!

In defence of AT, even if I haven't been too happy with it lately, some of us read the "main" AT, but if someone just reads their local one, well... then there's no such repeated posts

aaaaaaand back to the coffee table. It's definitely a winner. Items made out of recycled bits just keep getting cooler!

I agree with many of your observations, K T G, but I have to opine that solutions to the probs you ID are often related more to the blog watcher's own time management and less to the blogs themselves!

I myself check out AT every morning, if I've got time, I scan all the blogs up to those I read the previous day: if not, I don't. I see no problem with that, myself.

On the other hand, I enjoyed many of your adjectives.

I agree w/ KTG - The repeat post thing is pretty idiotic...

...and this table isn't all that great either - it doesn't even look like it came from an automobile at all - it could just as easily have been made from an old garbage can or a tin roof panel.

I think the before, with a few minor modifications, would make a very cool headboard. It would be neat to be able to recognize it as a car hood.

people, is it really such a big deal that there are a few repeats? click back and read on, or don't. not the end of the world, is it?

i am reading the "main" AT, and i am reading it from Germany, so following the logic of at least one of the above post, it shouldn't interest me at all :-D

that is a seriously great table and a very cool idea.

well, you certainly are passionate about it. :-)

it is true that things get lost once you do not have the time to read daily (on the main site). it doesn't bother me much, but i can see your point.