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I really don't understand the allure of Restoration Hardware. Everything is outrageously overpriced -- I know several folks have posted on here how to get the identical items for less elsewhere -- and the one store I visited struck me as cold and calculated, not a place I'd want to buy items for my home.

This is horrendous!

It kinda' looks like something you might find in one of those Ballard Design catalogs...does anybody else get those things in the mail?

It looks like it may hurt someone!

no.

Steampunk Wall-E?

I actually kind of like it. Would pick one up myself if (1) I had a second den where my wife wouldn't mind it and (2) it were maybe at least $850 cheaper.

I Love it, but I'm such a cluz I'd fall over it in a hot second. Besides I can't find any thing like it for under 500. Oh well...:-(

I was in a RH two days ago and saw one of these. It actually looked totally awesome. I could see it working in a lot of different spaces. It is certainly a departure for the chain so good for them for trying something new that isn't totally outside their core merchandise.

I see all those exposed nuts and bolts and my shins just cringe.

This is totally my aesthetic taste, just not my budget.

I usually love the industrial aesthetic, but I don't care for this. And it's way too expensive!

My style is mid-c but I love this. I think you can get this look for much less by diy'ing it using reclaimed lumber and castors.

Available for only $910?

ha, ha, ha.

Ug-ly

Very country AND very steam punk. I like it, but I'd rather brag about it as a great Billy's on Houston find or in a barn in Vermont rather than something from Resto. I suppose this is a good sign of companies looking at found materials, though?

I know where to get one for under 200$, but the idea that I may have children in the near future keeps me from buying one.

What I do like is since it's low, less chance of Mr. trying to encourage me to eat dinner by the TV...

Industrial-salvage tables have been le hot for hipsters for a decade now, so I guess it's about time it hit the mainstream. $910 isn't as outrageous as you'd think, either. I notice that Olde Good Things has the same cart for $450 (without shipping), but in the past, I've seen them go for well over $1,000 when polished up a bit. IIRC, that's the price on this one. And the downtown SF Anthropologie has a smaller version for $2,500.

So. Yeah. I love the industrial aesthetic, but the prices... oy. Sometimes I kinda get the logic, but sometimes my mind, it reels. Seriously, who would fork over $750 for this... this thing?

I like and would use in my office, but not willing to pay over $500

Another something to trip over every day - why such huge wheels...there is no way they are really needed.

The whole reason I don't have a coffee table is because it would give the kids one more thing to bump into. If I had this table, I'd be on a first-name basis with the local ER staff. $910 is nothing compared to the money I'd be spending on co-pays and tooth repair.

Well I was talking about adults tripping over...actually never had a problem with children bumping into a coffee table and most of the people I know do have children. The height of my coffee table hits at just below my knee and the one in the photo is shorter, so I'd need to keep it cleared off so when someone trips they don't break anything on themselves.

I bought one a lot cheaper than RH, from a site called antiquefactorycartcoffeetables.com and then went to home depot and got 40 worth of supplies and refinished it myself and it looks better in my opinion than this one.

Well I sort of like the concept but I think my vastly unskilled labour could make something pretty similar for 30 bucks and a Saturday.

Does anyone want to give me money to make theirs? I'll only charge, uh, 500 apiece.

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