[COOL SHIT] Dot Coffee Table from West Elm

If your life is like mine, there is no other piece of furniture in your home than your coffee table. 

It's where you eat your meals, it's where you do your power hours, it's where you map out your ridiculous work schedule, it's where you put your feet up when you're watching yet another true crime documentary on Netflix Instant View.

So here's a gem from West Elm's Spring 2011 catalog, the Dot Coffee Table ($399). 

I'm more partial to dark wood, but it's not bad, huh?

More pictures after the jump.

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[DESIGN WTF] Endangered Species Erasers from West Elm

What better way to show that you care about endangered species then by purchasing rhino/gorilla/polar bear-shaped erasers to put on your desk?

Does anyone else see the irony here that if you actually USED these things as erasers that the animals would also begin to disappear just as their real-life counterparts are?

Of course, if you're just looking to spruce up your desk with some toys (what are you, a pedophile?), that's fine, I guess. 

Me?  I don't use erasers because I DON'T MAKE MISTAKES.

[COOL OR NOT COOL?] Oyster Hanging Strands from West Elm

Usually, I have so many decided opinions that I leave everyone around me wishing that they didn't have ears. 

HOWEVER, I'm posting this edition of "Cool or Not Cool" because I really can't decide how I feel about these Oyster Hanging Strands from West Elm.

The description says they're perfect for "bringing the beach indoors," and we know how I feel about that, so I'm leaning more towards "not cool."

I mean, really—if you can answer the question, "Does this look like something Ariel from The Little Mermaid would use to decorate?" with a resounding "YES!" then you should probably leave it out of your home and back on the beach.

But after seeing them placed in a room, I'm undecided.  

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