Re-Purposing Furniture for other uses

Recently I made a decision to save a little money by converting a little used coffee table, which takes up too much room, and make it into a nice looking computer desk for use downstairs. Here are the basic items needed, tools, and steps I took to re-purpose some furniture.

Items Needed:
1 - Coffee table
4 - Screw Brackets, used for mounting to underside of table
4 - Table legs, with built in screws for attaching to screw brackets
1- Small can of stain

Tools:
1 - Drill, with drill bit and Philips screw attachment. (If you have a torque drill you're in the zone!)
Brush, disposable rag, and protective hand glove for applying stain
Pencil for marking drill holes

Preparation:
1. Stain new table legs and allow them to dry.

Steps:
1. In a clear area, turn coffee table upside down for easy access to legs. Unscrew original coffee table legs.
2. Take a screw bracket, align it to desired location underneath corner of table, mark and drill holes. Repeat for other three corners.
3. Place a screw bracket over holes and loosely screw in supplied screws into bracket. Next, set drill torque (for mine 15), and then tighten each screw down so bracket is secure. Repeat for other three corners.
4. Screw in each new table leg.
5. Carefully turn over coffee table, now used as (in my case) a computer desk. Enjoy.

I'm looking to do more projects as the pre-summer weather holds up and I may use the Instructables website, including pictures, for better how tos. Stay tuned.

A real good friend sent me a link earlier of a music video on Vimeo. It's from an award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music." Here's probably the best rendition of the Ben E. King classic, Stand By Me. Beautiful.

The things I learn...

Was talking with a friend earlier about being cool, being great, and being a rock star. He mentioned his daughter has finally decided she wants to be a rock star like Hannah Montana. Friend's daughter is four years old.

Later, had coffee with another bud of mine. He recommended I check out a funny comedian named Anjelah Johnson. Cute. Here's a Youtube example of her on Chick Comedy.

Told him about photographer, Kyle Cassidy. I love his photo essay, Where I Write.

Spent a little time over the weekend updating blogs, adding some current musical links and some favorite photos taken in recent years. See new Photos Music links and Cyberian Landmarks.

Although I'm still using Twitter, I'm looking at resurrecting A Blog in Time mainly to post more at length comments and thoughts about things...you know, blogging type things. Seems much of the blogging and other social networking avenues are all vying for wider audiences and user counts. Ultimately that's all good because it gives more options to the user.

Have not updated this blog in over a year, however I'm posting on Twitter as btbrasington for the foreseeable future. Thanks for stopping by.