Life is Beautiful: sofa table

I got an early birthday gift from Ehren - he built me a sofa table. I can't stop looking at it, it looks just like I imagined it to. I got an inspiration on Pinterest (of course) which led me to a blog with step-by-step instructions on how to do it. So Ehren didn't have to come up with it on his own, but he did tweek it a little bit to make it look nicer because the original was showing a lot of the pressed wood surface and ours now shows more of the real wood which looks a lot better. I spent some time staining it black so that the wood grain would still show thru and it's great. I can't say enough about it, it's perfect. I have to say Ehren did a great job with it and he's discovering that he really likes projects like that for which I'm really glad. The whole project came to around $70 after Ehren got the extra decorative pieces but the cheapest bookshelf I found at Ikea that is very similar to this (but it is painted solid black) was $190 so we saved a lot of money and it is ours, it is so much more valuable when it is something we made ourselves. Of course, this is leading to new projects now :), one that I've been thinking about for a while is a big dining room table. I really want Ehren to build one but first I need to find enough of old wood we can use for the top. So it may take a while for that but we do have a table there right now, the problem is that it only sits 6 people and if we have anyone over besides the 5 of us, we have to put someone in the kitchen or have 2 tables in the dining room.
So here are the pictures of the sofa table:

Ehren's job is finished

starting to stain - I got a bit high from it :)

finito!

In its place - stilll need to figure out what to put in all the bins,
but I'm sure we will fill it up. The lamp is temporary, I want to find a nicer one for it.