Hi!
I used to have one like yours when I was a young bride. I enjoyed it for many years. Decorating your own home, in your own style, is very much being a "nesting" mama, My S&T is posted, please come visit.
Blessings,
Mama Karen

Interesting question by your son! Beautiful chest.

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Oh, what a neat gift your sweet hubby gave ! I LOVE old trunks. I am now going to have to S&T my trunk. [0; It is one that my dad and I salvaged and restored. It is a handmade rosewood trunk.

Idea for the coffee table. You might want to get Plexiglas with rounded edges or get attachments to make rounded corners. Then there won't be problems with the groves. [0=

Enjoy my SSiC
God Bless !
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-Mary

Now that's the kind of coffee table I would like to have in MY living room! It's lovely. Interesting question from your son.

Blessings,
Kym

Wow! I just love that trunk. It's so neat that your hubby gotten this, without you knowing. He's a really awesome husband. I agree with your son too, how many miles has that trunk traveled? Which there was some way you could find out.

Love your S&T, have fun working on the new home,
Blessings from our home to yours,
Debbie

I really like your idea for a coffee table. I was going to share the same idea as Mary how to deal with the grooves on top.

You are so blessed to have a new home and decorate. I pray you enjoy it and have many blessings there.

Blessings to you,
Julianne @ www.familyblueprint.blogspot.com

That is a neat trunk. I have always liked that look. My mother does wicker trunks as her coffee tables. They are great for storing things. She has blankets in one, and photo albums in the other.

I had one similar many years ago. We used it for a toy Box. Have you considered getting a piece of Plexy glass cut for the Top?
Because of Jesus, Bobbie

I absolutely love old trunks! I tried to get an old one for my coffee table, but settled for my husbands Army guncase... it's wood and old looking. Love it! Come on by and see my show and tell... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/socalval/374222/

Valerie

How fun - I really like it!

hugs
Denise (aka HeartnSoul)

I love the trunks for coffee tables! I would have one but we don't have enough room for a coffee table!

Your dh did a nice job picking it out!

Blessings!
Sharity

What a unique idea--a trunk for a coffee table. Who cares if it holds the coffee cups or not? A coffee table makes a good foot rest, too, and think what you can store in it!

Yes, just think of where that trunk has been! That might be an interesting topic for an essay assignment, now that I think of it. :-)
Jenn

It reminds me of the old trunk in "Treasure Island". Perhaps it was owned by a sea captain!

I was thinking that if you want to use it for a coffee table and protect the top surface, you could get a piece of glass cut to fit the top and set it on top.

Enjoy it. I'd like to see more pics of your new home and the things you decorate it with as weeks go by on Show and Tell Friday!

Carol