High Tech meets Low Tech

Old Bread Cupboard

This old bread cupboard has been out in the garage waiting for me and the right weather to make it solid enough to come into the house.  The old loose paint needed to be sanded down.  The inside of the drawers deserved a fresh coat of blueberry blue paint.  Legs and drawers needed nails to be replaced with screws and a goodly amount of wood glue to ensure stability.  Lastly a light coat of verathane to finish it off.

I debated whether or not to just sand it down and give it a fresh coat of paint.  I certainly wouldn't be the first one who did just that, as I found pink, blue and green paint on the little cupboard.  However, I will try it this way, and if I don't like it, I can always paint it later.  (sacrilege to some folk)

I love the juxtaposition of the old cupboard with the espresso machine sitting on it.  Before there was high tech, there was low tech.  The cupboard came first.

Seen-Better-Days Lawn Chair

HELP! This old chair has definitely seen better days, and Mr. Shoulder to the Grindstone thinks that it should now see the burn pile.  Note the arm is no longer attached to the post, and when you sit in it, it's just a bit wobbly.  But I think it is cute, and maybe not really good as a sit-in-it-while-having-your-5 o'clock-toddy-chair, perhaps it could be an "art" chair.  And this is where I need the help.  What do you think?  Any good ideas about transforming this chair into something other than charcoal?

And, one last thing, I have been offered four marble table tops that had been used in the old Newberg High School chem lab.  They are about 30 inches wide and several feet long.  I want them.  I think I will be sorry if I pass them up, but for the life of me, I can't figure out why.  What can I do with them?  Am I a little crazy for wanting them?  Ideas?  HELP again!