For those of you familiar with the infamous coffin table, it now has a new face. Yes, I’ve actually somehow managed to transform a high school Halloween prop into an elegant piece of furniture, suitable for use as the focal point of our living room and still usable as a Halloween prop.

Yeah yeah, I know I could have just tossed the thing and bought a normal coffee table, but why spend my money on fancy, mass-produced furniture when it just means I’d have less to spend on books, rats, and anime?

I’m not sure that it’s exactly elegant, or that it ought to be the focal point of our living room, but it looks a lot better than it used to. The composite chip board orginally used is nice and sturdy, but all the little bumps made it pretty much impossible to really clean. And since we use the table *a lot* it seemed ease of cleanup would be a good thing. So after a few days hard work and a few trips to the local hardware store, I filled in the holes, put on some fresh paint, and gave it a few thick coats of polyurethane to seal the coffin-y goodness in and our junk food crumbs out. Let’s hope it lasts because I am so not looking forward to doing that again!

In other news, we broke down an installed the a/c today, but I’m not posting any pictures of that because I don’t want any evidence of the craptasting installation job Trev and I did, just in case it falls out the window ;-)