When David Guas saw a certain coffee table at Restoration Hardware, he knew its industrial chic surface would be the perfect spot for his customers to rest their big ol’ cereal-bowl shaped ceramic coffee cups. Then he saw the price tag. Conscious of the demands on his budget as the opening of Bayou Bakery looms in the coming weeks, and never one to dwell on disappointment, he moved right along tackling the rest of the items on his mile-long to-do list …. Not long after, combing through a giant salvage yard out in the Virginia countryside he’d targeted for possible vintage accessories to lend down-home character to the bakery’s interior, something caught his eye: it was an old, low, factory cart on four big heavy-duty casters – just the same base as that fancy table he’d seen. The proprietor said it was a feed scale cart. He’d let it go for $10. Guas popped the rotten wood top off and got it home to his workshop in a pickup truck. Fixed up with a lot of elbow grease, steel wool, and a nice new top fashioned from some massive old beams that came out of the bakery’s ceiling to make space for the new mezzanine level, its industrial chic surface… will become the perfect spot for gathering.Ingenuity, creativity, craftsmanship and afterschool TV breaks as a child seems to pay off!
Having seen both the RH table and it's price tag, this story makes me happy.
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