Window Table

So, I don’t know if you all remember, but I told you that we replaced 14 windows this past year in my front porch. I kept some of them and have been making things out of them, like these.

Well, one of the first projects we did,  and have just now finished, (because that the kind of year it has been!) was to make a couple tables out of the long tall windows that were right next to the front door. They were perfect little couch tables, only I don’t really have a place to put them behind a couch, so I put them next to long walls.

The windows were in pretty bad shape. And both of the ones I wanted to use had the glass break out of them when they were coming out. (hey, they are 100 years old, they were hard to get out of there!!) But that was OK, because I had a plan. First of all, I cut legs and put an edging around the side to keep everything together, but since they were so old, it wasn’t quite square on the corners and there were gaps here and there. But that was OK because we were going to lay a thick piece of glass over the top, and a little caulking will help hide that. But before we did that, I also attached a piece of wood to the bottom. Thats what it looked like at valentines day. And since I’m so impatient I had to see what it would look like against a wall (and of course that isn’t where it stayed.)

And since my husband likes to tile so much, we picked out the tiny little tiles and I had him arrange them in there (that’s about as artsy as he gets!) I gave it a quick coat of paint. I didn’t want it to look new so I left a bunch of spots where the brown was. It lives in the loft with me with many of the photos I brought home with me from the office as well as an antique fan I picked up last year (soon to be an antique heater!)