We purchased new living room furniture last year, and…
Okay, let me clarify before I hear it from my husband… I purchased new living room furniture last year because I was a sucker for the awesome Black Friday deals I found! We had been living with a hideous brown and orange floral couch from his grandmother and then a huge blue sectional from my grandparents since we had been together, and I JUST COULDN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE! So I made a total impulse purchase while Christmas shopping on Black Friday for all new living room furniture. Whoops! Sorry hunny : ) Back to the story…
We purchased beautiful new living room furniture last year, and the tables we got have a slight lip around the edge of the top, creating a tray in the center of the tabletop. Trying to protect our new impulse purchase, we had plexiglass cut to fit inside the tops of the tables, and I always thought it would be so fun to add some pretty fabric or paper underneath the glass to dress up the table. The plexiglass would hold it in place, so I could essentially change it out with the seasons if I wanted to!
Do you see where I’m going with this?
I laid my gorgeous book page table runner across one of the tables, and it fit almost perfectly! I used a pencil to mark the perimeter of the table onto the book pages, and cut away the extra with scissors.
Our newly decorated sofa table now sits upstairs in the hallway between the two bedrooms, so I apologize for the lighting in these photos. There’s absolutely zero natural light!
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What a fun idea! Re-purposing is awesome, and the pages looks great. I found you at the Weekend Wrap Up Party.
This idea is genius! I love the thought of being surrounded by words you love. Thank you for sharing. I’m visiting from It’s Overflowing link party.
Liz, this is just darling! So glad you came to our conference! You have such a cute blog! Love ya, The Six Sisters
I love this so much. The buffet looks fabulous with the book pages under the glass!! Love your style!
Karen
Found your blog at Dwelling Gawker. I’m a big fan of anything to do with book pages so loved this post.
I love books and love the table runner idea. I found your blog through Under the Table and Dreaming.
Love the black with the aged book pages. What a classic look! 🙂
I love this, it looks so beautiful!
So awesome. My husband reads so many books…I just have to steal a few to dress up our dining room. hehe
I would love to also invite you to join Totally Tuesday and link up your blog for my first ever link party: http://www.madcapfrenzy.blogspot.com/2013/02/totally-tuesday-1-link-party-time.html
I use books as decor all over my house – love what you have done. Do you worry they will become obsolete with e readers? Hate to admit, but I got one for Christmas and I love it :\
Hope you can stop by the enchanted oven.
xo,
Lisa
A great way to decorate! Love this roundup! Found you over at Tip Junkie! I’d love for you to come link this up at my Tuesday Time Out!
Melanie Reasons To Skip The Housework
Very cool! I also just adore books! I have them all over my house!
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Selene @ restorationbeauty.com
Such a lovely display ~ I found you through Carolyn’s Homework and would like to invite you to link up at Project Inspire{d}~ http://cupcakesandcrinoline.com/2013/02/project-inspired-link-party-4-and-some-new-faces/
I hope to see you there!
Mary Beth
I love this. Decorating with book pages is always so much fun. All of your decorations looked beautiful.
Ruth
I love this, probably because I love the idea of decorating with text/words. I have two canvases that have fun sayings on them and now I’m thinking this idea would work well to tie the room together. Found you via Tidy Mom link party.
What a fabulous looking table. I love all the decor on it. What a great way to salvage your book page table runner. Thanks for sharing with us!