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Clever Way to Upcycle an Ugly Table Into Something New and Beautiful

Here’s a brilliant way to create something new out of something old, from British designer/builder Rupert Herring. Herring took an old, staid dining table from the 1930s and broke it down into its constituent parts:

He then cut the oak tabletop into strips, and rearranged and relaminated them together to form a rectangle.

I love how the original curved perimeter of the table shows up as irregular gaps in the surface.

Also note the legs. He’s essentially turned them inside out, facing the rectilinear parts outwards while the original curved exterior now faces inwards.

He calls the finished product “From Dining to Coffee.”

Writes Herring,

I work with reclaimed wood, partly because its physical properties and patina can be ideal for a durable outdoor piece, but also because it seems somehow wonderful to bestow new life to a material that has already acquired associations of meaning throughout its history.