When is a door not a door?

When it's ajar!  Or in our case, when it's a table:

He's says:
   When we moved from our old rental house to our current one, we lost a lot of furniture.  Not lost misplaced, but rather returned to the landlords.  One of these items was our kitchen table.  While this table wasn't necessary for our eating routine, it was pretty handy when it came to crafts and art.  Essentially, the table was essential.

   We searched high and low for a respectable table in thrift stores and other second-hand outlets, but none caught our eyes.  We saw some that were passable, however they really wouldn't have worked in our new layout (like the one with the price tag labeled "Big Ol' Table").  So we toyed around with the idea of building our own table.  Abby did tons of research to find a table that was both easy to build, since I'm not very good at working with wood, and nice looking.  We settled on building a table out of a door.

   We had both seen designs for homemade sawhorses that would work great for the table's legs.  With the shopping list in hand, we went to the Habitat for Humanity Restore to look for a used door and some lumber.  Coming out of the store we had a used door (labeled "bath door") and around 52 feet of lumber--all for around $10.  Awesome!  I began working on the sawhorses, which involved cutting some 2x4's and then screwing/nailing them together.  They came out surprising level (after a little bit of tweaking), and they worked well in holding up the door/tabletop.  We painted them red, as Abby wasn't a huge fan of the look of recycled lumber. 

   After a trip up to my parents' house, we came back with 4 chairs, which was also a huge a relief because finding nice wooden chairs in a thrift store is apparently extremely difficult.  So after all the driving around, sawing, and various other shenanigans we now have a table.  It won't win any awards, but it sure is handy.  Plus after however many years of use we can return the tabletop/door to the Restore so someone else can use it.  Although they're probably going to use it as a "bath door" or something.