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Ideas for Pumping Up a Traditional Dining Room?
Good Questions

Q: We just bought a dining room table and chairs and we'd love some ideas on how to take the traditional dining room set and the room's mouldings and make it more funky and unique. Paint color, windo...

Home Fitness Furniture by Lucie Koldova

This sleek collection of furniture from Lucie Koldova all performs a dual function. In addition to a table, a storage cabinet and shelving — it's also home exercise equipment....

Can You Guess What This Is?

Hint: It's a fun solution for small space living. Answer with photo after the jump......

Look! Antique Stove Base Table

On our search to find a Nantucket whale to take home with us, we stumbled upon this shop where the owner was displaying reclaimed wood trunks he builds on top of makeshift antique stove bases. We th...

Repurposing: From Tabletop to Countertop

I'm always looking for ways to reuse what someone already has instead of buying new things - it's the crux of my alternative design business. So when a client needed a little eating space in his ti...

Using Coffee Table OVER Ottoman

We love our large, tufted secondhand ottoman (that we reupholstered) but sometimes using a tray on top of the ottoman just doesn't serve enough of the hard surface function that we miss by not havin...

Gearworks Adjustable Height Tripod Table from Sundance

We love most things adjustable AND most things industrial. So we're inspired by this adjustable table from Sundance. It's not something we'd buy but it sure makes us want to keep a close eye on ar...

Salvaged Wood Farm Tables by Lorimer Workshop

We’ve written about David Ellison of Lorimer Workshop’s tables on Apartment Therapy before, but since he is located right here in Rhode Island and we saw an excellent example of his handiwork in...

The Flip Convertible Sofa & Table by Adrien Rovero

This is fun and smart! Young Swiss designer Adrien Rovero has combined the properties of a sofa and a dining table into a single piece of transforming furniture... ...

Help! Can This 80s Faux Marble Coffee Table Be Modernized?

Like many a great craigslist purchase, it was quite an adventure picking up this 80s faux marble Roche Bobois coffee table. After some white-knuckle driving through the Hollywood Hills and catching ...

Furniture Design by Micaelan Davis

At her MFA thesis show a few weeks ago, RISD grad Micaelan Davis turned a couple of witty concepts into a beautifully executed lounge chair and dining table. The Foot Chair solves the age-old dilemm...

Hot or Not?: Three Sixty Table from The Future Perfect

When we spotted this Future Perfect coffee table, it definitely made us smile. In part because of the unexpected skate wheels but also because we love the idea of a lazy susan table......

Cafe Collection from Ballard Designs

This time of year outdoor furniture starts cropping up everywhere. We're always thinking about using outdoor furniture, like these fun cafe tables and chairs from Ballard Designs, indoors too......

Table of Contents by Paul Isabella

A beautiful table! From designer Paul Isabella: "A multi-use table exploring seating positions of users and the scary area of using something like inlay and marquetry in design"... ...

Using Science Lab Furniture in the Kitchen

We've gotten used to seeing metal lockers repurposed for home use, school chairs, and even industrial trashcans, but here's a way to take simple schoolroom science lab furniture (such as this mobile...

Coffee Table for Blu Dot Sectional: Round or Square?

We've talked about the love affair with our Blu Dot Bonnie & Clyde sectionals before, but our sofa duo is in desperate need of a third piece to complete the look: a coffee table. We bought the s...

Hourglass Side Table / Stool from Bungalow 5

We can never get enough of little side tables with character. We're already busting at the seams with side tables but if we weren't we'd give this cutie from Bungalow 5 a long, hard look. The woo...

CB2 Teepee Dining Table with Secondhand Top

One of our favorite things to do is to take a mass produced item and make it more personal, by modifying it in some way. Here's how we did that to this CB2 table which is stocked with a glass table...

David Sears: Elemental Furniture
New Collection at EcoModern Design

click thumbnails for larger pics With an eye toward longevity and durability, local designer David Sears' Cube Collection utilizes a production process which is an energy- and materials-efficient sys...

Illuminated Table from Boston-Based 30E Design

We've never been able to shake our love of this illuminated table that we spotted during Laurel and Hannah's House Tour a few months ago. Granted, we have a fetish for lighting and all things twink...

Vidon Adjustable Table by Vico Magistretti

As serial room re-arrangers we're obsessed with the idea of finding an affordable adjustable height table so that we can use it in a variety of applications. But until we discover our treasure, we'...

Affordable Reclaimed Wood Tables from Broyhill Furniture

It's easy to covet furniture made from reclaimed wood but it's often prohibitively expensive. And Broyhill Furniture isn't a brand that's referenced too often on AT - they're not quite known for hi...

Hot or Not? Ex-Libris Table by Minotti Italia

We spotted this table-turned-book storage-piece in the current issue of Metropolitan Home. It's hard to discern from the photo above but there are metal legs with shelves built in that allow you to...

Tablecloth As Table

We spotted a link to this perplexing table on the current AT Boston Open Thread. It's a resin encrusted tablecloth made by French artist/designer Sonia Verguet; the tablecloth is rigid enough and a...

Layers Table: Combining 4 Pieces to Create One Coffee Table!

This lovely coffee table, inspired by ice floes, from Council Design prompted us to think about using a grouping of smaller coffee tables to create the sense of one big table, divided only by small ...