I almost let this slip my mind. While we’re on the topic of coffee tables, I wanted to mention a great idea that my friend, El Bad told me about once for a really cool, artsy coffee table. (BTW-Her name really isn’t El Bad. We just call her that for fun.)

It’s a much cheaper solution to a new coffee table to shine in your living room. Anyway, as he is my guinea pig on apartment stuff, I got Schultz to try it out in his living room and actually looks pretty cool.

We started with a used coffee table that we picked up at a garage sale. Then we placed a few interesting pictures of friends, some cardboard coasters from restaurants, some random CD covers, and some old, wrinkly baseball cards on it. Schultz organized them in an order that I couldn’t figure out, but the entire table top was completely covered.

Next, we took a number of old bottle caps and tacked them like a border all around the edges of the table top. At this point it really started to look like a piece of pulp art or something. Or something you might find at a novelty museum. Who knows? But it was really original looking none the less. Honestly, the options are limitless. You could virtually use anything that fits your taste to cover the table top. We just chose to use the pictures and stuff.

The final step’s easy. After the table top had “art” layered in the coolest way possible, we covered it with table-top glass that fit the size of the table and…bam! Instant masterpiece.

Schultz tried to sell it to me. I told him that he was crazy and that he is the only apartmentite I know that can pull off the “garage sale” look. He didn’t get it. He rarely ever does. Hopefully, you get it.

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