Weekend Recap -- Too Much Chianti, Too Short Legs

Friday night started out in my absolute favorite way: putting my hair in hot rollers and touching up my makeup for dinner.  I know, I'm painfully girly.

Ian and I joined my Aunt Yvonne and Uncle Jimmy for dinner at Brio in the South Park area of Charlotte.  We started off the evening on the patio having some cocktails and enjoying the live music.  You can't get much better than that!  For dinner I had the most delicious lobster ravioli, and of course we all took down a couple of bottles of chianti.

Saturday morning, Ian and I were up early to tackle the new media center that we purchased for our living room.  I got this piece on Overstock and was comforted by the positive reviews that it would be a good piece. 

I read that it took about 45 minutes to put it together, but it took us about 1 hour and 45 minutes.  No biggie, we were having fun, goofing off, and refilling our coffee cups from time to time.  It was a fairly easy process since the pieces were all numbered and well organized.  So far, so good.  (Do you get the idea that this story is going to take a dramatic turn for the worse??)

So we got it all complete and stood it up to move it to the wall where it would be placed.  Only one {slightly major} issue:

Oh gracious.  That thing is just terribly small.  Ian and I were so upset.  All of that work, and for nothing!

Our options were to take it apart, piece by piece, bolt by bolt, and pay to return it to Overstock {okay, we knew that wasn't really an option we wanted to do} or just to list it on Craigs List and try to get a little bit of money out of it.  UGH.

But then I had an idea.  What if we can buy replacement legs for the piece?  We hit up Lowe's, and sure enough, we found wooden legs about 18" high and purchased them along with a can of satin black spray paint.  After a couple of coats and some overnight drying time, here's what we were looking at on Sunday:

Not too shabby!  The TV will be mounted above it and each side will be flanked by the speakers that you see over on the left-hand side of the picture.  The wires will of course be concealed.

In fact, I like these new legs much more than the too-short legs.  They add an antique quality to the piece and they also look good with the other more feminine details of this piece, like the below medallion on the apron:

So, what do you think? 

Today I leave for Dallas to visit a client and I'll also be in planes tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday!  Now, I need your book suggestions -- I'm currently reading One Day by David Nicholls but I just really don't know if I'm digging it.  I'm about halfway done with it, but I just feel like it's dragging.  I'd like to download another book or two on my Kindle to start reading.  Please let me know what you've been loving!