I was looking for a sturdy coffee table with simple, modern lines.  Something with solid wood and a steel frame.  I used to have a coffee  table with a shelf underneath.  That was extremely convenient to store all the stuff that would otherwise lay on the table itself so I wanted a table with a shelf.  I went to the usual places, IKEA, CB2, Crate and Barrel, Room and Board, Pier 1, Ethan Allen and a few other local stores but sure enough I couldn’t find the right coffee table (at a reasonable price too).  Since nobody ever built what I needed, I had an excuse to do what I wanted to do anyway, build my own coffee table.

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