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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Coffee Tables - There Are Many Themed Options To Show Off Your Interests
Coffee tables can be used to display your personality or to show off your interests. Instead of collecting dust or odds-end-ends from around the house, why not showcase your interests with unique coffee table displays? There is a nearly endless amount of ideas you can consider.
The Sports Enthusiast - Is this you? Do you enjoy a sporting event, any kind of game? Use an antique piece of sports equipment as the central focus of your coffee table. An old baseball mitt, for example, will make a unique statement and show your love of the sport. Another idea is to show off your collection of golf balls in a glass bowl.
The Artist - Are you an artist? A photographer? Use your coffee table as a mini gallery. For example, display one or two of your favorite art pieces or photos on mini easels in the center of your coffee table. You could even opt to decoupage the top of the coffee table with your artwork for a unique display of your personality.
The Gardener or Nature Lover - If you enjoy gardening and the outdoors, consider displaying 'live' pieces of art on your coffee table - plants. Other ideas that may suit you include displaying old watering cans holding small garden tools, a photo album, book of nature or a unique birdhouse.
The Beach Bum - Perhaps you have fond beach memories, or perhaps you just want to create that vacation feeling at home. Use your coffee tables to display your collection of shells and sea glass in a simple wicker basket. You could also pop a few of your favorite beach photos into simple wood frames and display on your coffee tables.
The Book Worm - For the avid reader and book lover, coffee tables can be the place to stack your favorite books. Just don't go overboard - pick a few of your favorites. Use this pile as a mini-table on the coffee tables, and display old reading glasses. You can rotate the books on display every few weeks.
The Family Person - It's only natural to want to show off your family, and coffee tables can help you do that. If you have children, you can turn some of your favorite photos into coasters and have a variety to choose from. Additionally, have a small photo album ready for guests to flip through.
The Chef - For those of you interested in food, dining and fine wine, use your coffee tables to express this. Save the corks from your wine bottles, and arrange on top of an antique cake stand. You could even write on the cork the name of the wine, who you shared it with, and what the occasion was.
Whatever you chose for your coffee tables, think outside of the box when choosing containers for the display. Remember also to incorporate different elevations, depending on your coffee table's shape, size, and the overall surface space.
Whatever your interest is, there are a variety of ways to express them using your coffee tables as a showcase. Go ahead and express yourself!
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Wood Kitchen Tables - Keeping Them Young
Wood is one of the most pleasant materials for making any sort of furniture, and kitchen tables are no exception. Warm to the touch, pleasing to the eye, wood kitchen tables also need to be resistant to the tougher treatment that they often get compared to other furniture. After all, where else in the house to people set down mixing bowls, house keys, wet dish cloths, and children's paintings and even do it yourself tools?
Prevention is better than cure so starting out with a table that is robust and also treated to avoid stains is a good idea. Using hardwood and the right wood oil will already allow you to avoid stains from food, drink or other substances. Of course, you can always invest in a sturdy kitchen tablecloth that may also have a plastic coating on the upper side.
However even the best-protected wood kitchen tables are likely to end up scratched or tarnished in some way. If you accept the inevitable, and are prepared to put things right, then this may end up as just a minor inconvenience rather than a major tragedy. Depending on the type of damage, there are a number of ways of repairing your tabletop. In general, wood is well suited to repair work, as it is relatively simple to touch up or to restore.
The first step will be to clean the surface of the wood kitchen tables. By using warm, soapy water you will already be able to remove much of the dirt or food that is currently soiling the surface. If you are preparing a scratch in the surface of the wood, then you need to replace the oil in the surface that the scratch has laid bare. One way to do this is to take a walnut (crack open the walnut shell and use the softer nut which is inside) to rub into the grooves of the scratch. After a while, the oil of the nut will be absorbed by the wood of the table.
In order to recover the original look of wood kitchen tables, and especially if the scratch still looks pale after the walnut oil has been applied, then remember that you can try coloring the scratch itself with a crayon which is of the same hue as the rest of the table. Finally finish the repair work by buffing with a soft cloth to make this part of the table uniform with the rest of the surface.
Wood tables can last a lifetime if you take some further simple proportions. By protecting the table surface with coasters any time that you set glasses or mugs down on the surface, you can avoid the white rings that can be so often seen as a result of underlying moisture reacting with the table. Felt-backed coasters are among the best for this use. Similarly, use table mats or similar protection if you want to put a hot dish on the wooden surface.
If your kitchen gets a lot of sunlight, you may also want to protect your wood table from the sun either by positioning it in a shadier area, or by using a tablecloth. If your goal is to have a wood kitchen table with a weathered or "family heirloom" look to it, then you might deliberately want to leave your table where the sunlight will fall on it, as this is the effect that this will have.