{"id":8802,"date":"2004-09-25T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=8802"},"modified":"2015-05-20T22:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T05:09:16","slug":"mckinley-mosaic-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=8802","title":{"rendered":"McKinley – mosaic table"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had been intending to buy some kind of pedestal table for the McKinley’s kitchen, but recently came up with an idea to make my own. I paid a few dollars at Goodwill for a butterfly windchime from Pier 1 (still in the box). It had a round, flat glass top and seven glass butterflies that hung down on invisible thread. One of the butterflies was broken, but I thought I could cut the others off and make them into Christmas ornaments or suncatchers. When I did this, I was left with the round top, which seemed like a good size for a dollhouse table top. I have always loved Pier 1’s mosaic tables… I have a coffee table in that style, and had been eyeing a dining table that stopped being available in their stores before I had a house big enough for it… so, once again, I decided to live out my life-sized dreams in miniature.<\/p>\n

Rather than building legs, I tried resting the table top on top of a Mackintosh reading table I bought last year and so far have found nothing to do with. Initially this was just to see how the glass piece would look as a table top, but I like the effect so much I may leave it this way. I couldn’t find any good mosaic pictures at the Pier 1 website so I used Google’s image search and stumbled upon this great mosaic supply site<\/a>. I went through their gallery (apparently all the work of students) and saved several mosaics that I thought might look nice. I resized them in Photoshop to match the diameter of the table top and printed them out.<\/p>\n

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The little holes in the table top are where the thread for the butterflies went through. With the mosaic in place, the holes are barely noticeable!<\/p>\n

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I looked at a bunch of pictures, and came up with four I really like. Now I can’t decide which I like best! I’m going to hold onto them for now and see which goes best with the kitchen decor (I’m planning on oak or honey colored cabinets and a green marble countertop). Even then, I may decide not to attach anything permanently so I can swap out the mosaics if I feel like it.<\/p>\n

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The chair in these pictures is just to give an idea of the table’s size… it’s not the style of chair I’ll wind up using. Some wrought iron cafe-style chairs may look nice. Here’s a shot of the table “in context”:<\/p>\n

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