So many of my projects begin with a conversation like this “Topher, I need you to build me something.”
I then vaguely explain what it is that I am wanting to do, and then he says “And just how would you like me to go about doing this?” and I say “I don’t know but I’m pretty positive you can figure it out”. Then he sighs and goes out to the garage where I hear power tools and lots of colorful words.
Amazingly enough, at the end of the day he comes in with the project I described. Notice I say most of the time, but lets not go there right now.
So when I told Topher that I wanted to replace our big glass coffee table with a table made from an old door, I got “the look”. The look means “I want to be playing Xbox or watching Walking Dead, but I will do it for you since I love you, but I will gripe about it the entire time it takes to build it just to let you know how annoyed I am”.
I, on the other hand, pretended like I didn’t see it.
I found this door on Craigslist. It was so perfect. Not only was it a five panel (which I had been looking for) it had the perfect amount of vintage chippiness to it. But wait it gets better. What is my favorite color in the whole world? You know it. Aqua baby. Can you believe I found a five panel that was chippiness perfection … and it was aqua?
I could die.
When Topher looked at it, it looked like he wanted to die too.
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