How much would you sell this table for?

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I bought this about 11 years ago. I absolutely loved it and saved up for it, paying £270.

I’m going to redecorate soon and I can’t decide if I still love it as much, or if I want something more modern.

What do to you think I can expect to sell it for? (If I get the mug mark and burn mark removed somehow?)

You can get heat marks out of varnished wood using an iron on low heat, no steam, over a folded cotton cloth. If it's natural wood or has been oiled or waxed then sand the whole thing to get the marks off - start with coarser sand paper and go down to mid grade one - and then wax or oil it again.

We sold quite a bit of surplus furniture - both old and IKEA - on eBay starting at 99p in 10 day auctions ending on Sunday pm. Sold as buyer collects only and cash on collection. I think you'll get around £50 for it.

Yes - around £50

If you still like the unusual shape but just feel it's a little outdated, You could always spray paint the metal into a more modern gold or silver and stain the top. Loads of videos and help online, and b&q are great to help with advice.

I will buy it if you live close to south east london

Don't stain the top!
Don't take advice from B&Q!
£50-75 ..
Gumtree/ ebay

I love that, OP. I thought £270 was a bargain. Try putting it into your local auction house. Someone will love it just as much as you did. I'm sure it's worth more than £50 to the right person.

@DancingLedge if OP wants to keep it, updating is in an option. I upcycle furniture as a hobby 🙄

If you took the legs off and replaced them with tall hairpin legs you could make a very nice modern console table.

Bit like this

If you're in the Midlands I'll buy it! It's lovely

If you’re in South Wales I’d buy it!

I’m in none of those places, typically! And to be honest, I had hoped it was worth a little more than £50. But I guess I’m thinking of how much I loved it. I felt really extravagant buying that for our new flat a year after moving in and starting a new job after my mat leave

@sirmione16 I wouldn’t risk it, but you have inspired me to upcycle my bedframe instead

@NapQueen I love that and would have one in a minute if I had bigger hallway

Hair pin legs would be good.
It looks like ash if you need to know for your listing

Forget that! Looking again it could be pine!

I'd carry on loving it and get some new legs on it to make it more modern

Fifty is fair but it does look dated.

Furniture I'd never worth much 2nd hand. Shops put on a huge markup compared to manufacture costs because of the enormous variety of possible sofas, tables, etc etc that they need to stock and have storage space and display space for. They have enormous costs of shops square footage and warehousing, and also enormous wastage because no matter how many "70% off" sales they have, there will always be some stock they just can't shift before it becomes a bit dated. When you buy furniture new, a good three-quarters of the price you pay is to fund this expensive and high-wastage system for providing you with such an enormous amount of choice that you can fall in love with something that seems perfect, and yet will almost never see the same item in a friend's house as they think a different item is "perfect".

No one buying second-hand is going to pay that markup, so your starting point for the "new" value of the table is a quarter what you paid for it even a week after you bought it - that's £67.50. It will then have depreciated down from that because tastes and styles change anyway and things start to look old - hence £50.

It's possible you may find someone else who falls in love with it so much that they are prepared to pay £100 or more for it - but chances are unless you are very lucky that person lives so far away from you that the extra money they are prepared to spend will go on courier fees or petrol costs, not into your pocket.

imchlibob as summed the situation up perfectly. Over the years I’ve bought and sold a fair amount of furniture. Not professionally, but changing the style of my own interiors.
I’d not do anything to it, the top is pine and will have had a manufacturers finish put on the wood, you could make the marks worse by trying to remove them.
Painting any part is risky because a buyer would want the paint colour to their taste.
Have you got a shop with a ‘small ad’ section nearby? If so, I’d try that
first, it’s cheaper. Unless it’s an on line auction, people will haggle you down, so I’d start at £75-60 and expect to get £50.

Before I read the replies I thought £50. There's actually not that much of a second hand furniture market anymore IMO. My first flat was full of second hand stuff and there was often a queue to buy it but seems times have changed.

£50 max
These are unbelievably cheap to make
And as your selling it “second hand” your not going to get much for it.

If you can't get the burn or mark off it you'll probably be looking closer to £20-30.

I bought a beautiful mid-century on-trend-again sideboard in nice condition... for £40.

To be brutally honest I think you'll struggle with a table that looks a bit 90s.

What about swapping the legs out for something more modern www.etsy.com/uk/search?q=coffee%20table%20legs&ref=auto2&as_prefix=coffee%20ta
Or painting the legs - a colour to match your new decor or something like copper (loads of copper spray paints out there)

I don't think you'll get £50. You may do if you change the legs to something more modern and do a fair amount of work to restore the top to as-new condition, but by the time you account for the cost of the legs and the effort, is it really worth it?

If you have a local FB selling site, put it on there (buyer collects and no fees). I think £20-25 in current condition is realistic.