And you may ask yourself... why is there a coffee table on this blog?

Well, I guess it's on here because I built it. There was a time when we bought our first home (just married and putting my wife through college) that we were so poor we couldn't really afford furniture. We didn't even really have the money to buy lumber so I'd go get the broken palettes from dumpsters behind local stores. I'd then build all kinds of furniture out of the scrap wood found in these dumpsters. I've always been fond of the pieces, but my wife has been happy to slowly replace them over the years. Anywho, this is one of those pieces. I just recently refinished it to match the new house.