Southern View Sofa Table

Even though the old house is weathering down and the porch columns are crumbling under the weight of the roof, the upstairs dormer porch still presents a panoramic view through the untrimmed yard trees---out over the rolling prairie and tree-lined creek bank. Before her death in 1949, did the lady rancher, many years a widow, sit out on the upstairs porch and think back to the early days when she and her English cowboy built the grand house near Wolf Creek in the Texas Panhandle? Did the tin flashing covering the porch floor pop and crack as she walked on it like it does now?

The quiet house can only tell part of the stories. Sections of the flashing, flattened tar tins soldered together, have become panels for the Southern View Sofa Table. Doorjambs and trim with a post-salvage coat of red milk paint are used for the table frame and cabinet. The door pull is an unknown part pulled from a burn pit. And the table base is constructed out of scrap tubing and structural bracing from an old oilfield location.