Thanks for the comments everyone. Boone’s Woodshed – that’s awesome. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
I made the table for my niece who is giving it to a friend for her wedding later this summer. She knew the basic size and style she wanted and left the rest to me.
I held off on it a bit on this one as I thought about how I wanted to execute it and actually had a couple of small ‘false-starts’ with wood selection and how I wanted the legs. The initial design and materials I had picked out just didn’t feel right and I couldn’t force myself through the project unless I knew I was going to be satisfied with the end result. So I stepped back and thought about it and this design pretty much hit me all at once and from then on I had a clear plan (in my head of course) of how I wanted to build it. After that bit of ‘eureka!’ moment everything just fell into place and flowed smoothly. The hidden drawer was a last minute inspiration. :)