It pains me to pay a lot for something when I’m pretty sure I can achieve a similar look for pennies on the dollar.

Like when I spied this gorgeous coffee table from Oomph the other day:

Lacquer-y goodness?  Yes!  Almost $2,000?  Heck no!

While I was busy getting over the sticker shock I started thinking about our coffee table.  We got it at Macy’s right after we got married {we had lots of store credit, as most newlyweds do} and in the 3 years that we’ve had it the coffee table has gotten a few nicks and scars, and we now have a brown rug.  So it’s a lot of brown going on in there.

Anyhoo, the point is that the pricey Oomph coffee table reminded me a lot of our much-cheaper-plus-we-already-own-it coffee table from Macy’s:

{ I de-styled it so you could see our coffee table in all its glory. }

Can you see the similarity, too?  Okay, maybe it doesn’t have all of the cool angular patterns that the pricey coffee table has, but I think that the square shape and narrow wood slats give off a similar vibe.

So here’s where I’d love your input – would you go ahead and paint our coffee table?  And if so, what color would you paint it? {Here’s a reminder of the color scheme that we have going on in our den.}