Apath, apotho, apithaca....cool coffee table find and redo

First off, my leg is on the mend!!  whoop whoop

So being able to, I went hunting for a better proportioned coffee table.

I searched in all the places, I thought I would find one, but I didn't find one to even try to like.

A whole lot of end tables, though.

I was leaving the last store and heading home, tired, disappointed, cofffe tableless.

coffeeless, hmmm

I really needed some coffee and I didn't know of any, in that part of town.

So I took a side trip and stopped at another store I had given up on months ago.

I figured what the hey, I had a nickel for parking and it gave me exactly 5 mins to look.

Then, giving up I spied this little gem for 15 dollars!!!

I think I literarly jumped for joy, and squealed a little.

I ran to the cash register and told them I would love to purchase the coffee table and I only had 2 mins left to do it.  They told me to pull into the building and they would load me up.

That was when I did the happy dance, to their amusement.

It's not often I can out hyper a 16 year old, but I did at that moment.

So here it is

What do you think?

It's solid wood and a little flaky but I see visions for it. 

Kinda like this. 

Thinking it looks a lot better than the previous one, that was longer than my couch. 

I switched out the knobs,and did a paint treatment to fake the metal look on the drawers.

Although I am not completely done (end of feet still not painted) 

I am pleased with it and now need to seal the top and maybe pin-stripe around the drawers.

Maybe put a stencil on top before I seal it.....hmmmmm

oh the paint color is a darker gray than seen, can't ever get these photos real to color.