{coffee table}

Reasons not to buy a coffee table (all from Tim, mind you):

• Our house is gingerbread size. 
• Mason needs room to lounge.
• We would have to buy more stuff to put on it.
• It's a waste of money.
• What's the point of a coffee table, anyways?
• I just don't want one.

Reasons to buy a coffee table (me):

• It completes the room. Every "finished" living room has a coffee table.
• Mason will be just fine. I will make sure he still has a path to the window to bark his head off at the mailman AND has space to lay down.
• I can't wait to decorate it - I have stuff in the basement just waiting for its spot on a coffee table. 
• Plus, this is the EXACT one I've been looking for. 
• We can use it when entertaining.
• It can double as an ottoman.
• I just want one. BAD.

Anyone willing to guess how this turned out...?

In all fairness, Tim and I both really liked this coffee table as soon as we saw it. What Tim didn't like most about it was the price. So, I talked the manager down and got it for half what it was marked at (yay for me!!)

I really do love how the light, unfinished wood compliments the mostly heavy and dark furniture in the living room. It just pulls everything together. I am looking forward to playing a mean game of Monopoly and drinking too much wine with friends over this coffee table. I can just see it now...it will be the centerpiece of a million more memories to come.

The base is my favorite part. Can we say, Restoration Hardware look-a-like at 10% of the price?

Mason still has all the room in the world to sprawl out, while I now have a place to set my glass of wine.

PS. Will somebody buy that chair, already?!