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Restyle a Basic Wooden Dining Table
Five Ideas

Sick of your plain wooden dining table? Before you consider shopping for a new one, think about how you can work with what you've got to make something new......

5 Uses for IKEA's Muddus Table

IKEA's drop-leaf Muddus table is one of those small, unassuming pieces that can fit into a tight space. Depending on whether you flip the leaf up or down, it seats one or two people, and it's afford...

"X" Marks the Spot

Furnishings with X motifs conjure for us one of two things: Sinewy cross braces bring to mind steely structural feats. Rigid wooden X's make us think of more traditional designs. We've gathered a fe...

Bright Side Tables & Stools
A Small Shot of Color

The great thing about color is that a little goes a long way. Even if you're a lover of white walls, a saturated accent piece can be all you need to kick up the volume of a room, just a notch. Here ...

Simple Nightstands Under $100

We're often surprised at the high prices we see on nightstands and end tables. They're such small, simple objects that we expect to find more inexpensive options out there. For those who feel the sa...

Shaker-Style Work Tables and Desks
High & Low

Shaker style furniture is well-loved for its clean lines and warm wood tones. One of our favorite pieces is the classic work table, historically used as a multi-purpose piece and often reinterpreted...

Pairings: 10 Overhead Lamps & Dining Tables

If you're thinking of hanging a pendant lamp, we recommend trying one over the dining table. It's a great way to anchor your space and, if you add a dimmer, it will provide the romantic light you ne...

High & Low: Laser-Cut Side Tables

Elaborate cutwork can be really beautiful, but it can be overwhelming when you overdo it. That's why we love these side tables—they pack a lot of detail into a small accent piece. For options rang...

Pairings: 8 Great Side Table & Lamp Combos

We really don't follow any hard and fast rules when choosing a lamp to go with a side table. So much of it depends on your personal taste and the way you'll be using the space. We usually find the b...

Loungy Set Ups for the Coffee Table

Yesterday we looked at rooms that skip the coffee table completely; today we're taking a different approach. The living rooms above use floor cushions and low-profile seating to transform the coffee...

Lux Living Room: Upholstered Coffee Tables

We've always loved the look of an upholstered bench used as a coffee table. When you have a party, it creates extra seating and a cozy conversation area, and it's a great spot to put up your feet in...

Marbelous: A Table That's Lost Its Marbles

Playing with your food at the dinner table is a thing of the past once you've seen this Marbelous table from Ontwerpduo. No longer will you yearn to fling peas or start a mashed potato war, but in...

Roundup: Small Tables for a Breakfast Nook

A few months ago, we were looking for a small dining table (30-inch diameter or less) for our kitchen—not bar height, just a regular small table. We had such a hard time finding anything, until we...

Kinetic Opens to the Public
Montreal

Kinetic Living Concept is a Montreal-based company providing reproduction and original design furnishings for the home. Up until now, they were distributors of contemporary furnishings to retailers ...

Sawhorse Tables

click thumbnails for larger pics We imagine somewhere, some guy needed a work surface. Maybe a place to roll out some drawings or eat his lunch. He had a door and he had two saw horses. And voila - t...

High and Low: 5 Modern White Storage Nightstands

click thumbnails for larger pics If you have the space next to your bed, it's always nice to have a spot for a table lamp, book, alarm clock, and a little extra storage if you can spare it. We went ...

Natural Wood Coffee Tables

This apartment by designer Amy Lau is one of our favorite examples of a space that hits the right note with natural wood. The coffee table is the perfect anchor for a room of spare but texturally ri...

Tables and Seating: Collapsible, Stackable, and Retractable

click thumbnails for larger pics In our inbox this morning, we found this new Packet Table and Chair Set by Offi - a compact box that expands into a four-seater dining set. This very cool approach to...

Mismatched Bedside Tables

Supposing you're all about symmetry, the idea of mismatched bedside tables might make you bonkers. I, however, have always lived this way -- steering clear of too often (if ever) buying "sets". Like u...

Using Chairs as Bedside Tables

There's something wonderfully warm about nontraditional bedside tables to personalize a bedroom. In this case, the "nontraditional" isn't a table at all, but serves the same purpose: the bedside chair...

Best of the Stockholm Collection at Ikea

Click on the Thumbnails to view All 10 PiecesThe Stockholm Collection are the pieces from Ikea that are meant to evoke a classic Scandinavian style...simple, well thought-out shapes, calm colors and h...

Colorful Side Pieces from CB2

Yesterday's Oklahoma City house tour reminds of the power and excitement that color can bring to your home. Whether you are cautious with your colorful additions or tend to throw caution to the wind, ...

Multi-Purpose Furniture from Tomita Designs

Ken Tomita creates handmade furniture in simple forms that can be easily stacked to make shelving, tables, stools, or benches. Crafted from bamboo, his pieces are based on traditional Japanese forms...

(intension) Flat-Pack Table by Gregory Buntain

It seems we're late stumbling across Gregory Buntain. After finding his site through a series of clicks across the Internet that we can't even remember, we searched for more and came across a number...

Dining Room Furniture by Chadhaus

Chadhaus is the design and fabrication workshop of Chad Robertson. We pulled together a couple of his dining room pieces to show you here. Above is a sideboard from the Farmhouse Modern series. We l...

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