Coffee table project

With  house move impending I've been thinking about furniture and the potential need to visit a certain affordable Swedish design Mecca. Fortunately, we are quite lucky in that we already have pretty much everything we need, which is a big bonus as far as our joint account is concerned. However. I am bored. I also don't want a house full of Ikea furniture that looks like Ikea furniture. So. The sofas are going to get a dye job. The kitchen butchers trolley will get a lick of paint, and for that useful square coffee table that everyone has I'm thinking something along these lines:

Before and after shots to follow...