Upcycled 50s telephone table
My partner and I had a dilemma faced by many inner-city dwellers: nice couches in the sitting room- BUT no nice side tables. Where to put the martini glass? On what to perch the canapé plate? Am I right? – everybody faces this dilemma.
Space is tight. The couches are expensive and there is NO way that guests are encouraged to rest their drink or antipasto plate on the arms. So- what to do?
Enter- the upcycled telephone table. Long in length and thin in width- the perfect dimensions. Having an upper and a lower level [once for the telephone and padded seat, respectively]- and with an added grill for the old telephone books – these tubular metal telephone tables are just the thing.
Trish stripped back the chrome plating, attended to the rust, and repainted in matt black. Recycled timber was sanded, oiled & finished and screwed to the upper and lower sections and voila- the perfect side table was born.
The table ticks all the boxes: upcycling, recycling and retro styling. Totally loving it!
re:retro 
we used to have a black metal one with red padded seat 😉
if you still had it- imagine- you could be upcycling today. although it sounded quite flash- maybe you would have preferred to use it as is?
Well I do prefer as is usually, I have a lot of stuff but not that, of course it had one of those big scarey black phones on it too!
but jane- the black phone would have been the best bit! (in aust. at least)
I know ;/
Is this the first thing that you’ve ever posted that isn’t for sale? :-0
no laurie, every now and again i do ‘styling’ posts with things in my home- this is one of them.