A Cottage in Sag Harbor: Once on this island

After painting the sideboard and wall shelf in the dining room a dark gray I got a scathingly brilliant idea: why not try to update the farm table I've been using in the kitchen as an island? What's always bothered me about it was that it was table height and not counter height, a little too low. So I decided to look to the internet for answers. I Googled "how to turn a farm table into a kitchen island" and, VOILA!, the perfect piece of scrap popped up. Here it is:

It's so simple and brilliant...and best of all, it looked easy to achieve. Just get a piece of wood and some roller wheels and do-it-yourself!

That's when I decided to get worried tho...there were any number of places this could go horribly wrong, but I said, "what the hell" and jumped in with both feet.
First the wood. I went to the lumber yard and found out a real piece of wood was pricey, over 80 bucks. Ouch. I asked about MDF and it was $30 cheaper. Sold. But would it be easy to cut? Would it be so cheap that it would fall apart as I worked with it? I had the huge board cut to size and I ended up with a similar piece in size. I thought it would come in handy in case i screwed up the first piece. Then I looked for the wheels. I went to two hardware stores out here and, again, the wheels were costly, almost $25 apiece! Amazon to the rescue: I found 4 nice looking wheels for a TOTAL of $25! With my nephew's Amazon Prime account I'd get them in only two days. Done and done.
When I tried to get the existing roller wheels off the table the screws gave me a major hard time, they were ancient. I ended up smashing the base of the wheel off one and pounded in the screws. Crisis averted.
I was really worried about cutting out the pattern of the wood with my jigsaw. I drew the curve freehand and cut out a pattern out of poster board. Then I just measured off the sides from the corners and flipped the pattern so all the ends would match and be the same. It worked! The jigsawing was also easier than I thought. MDF cuts like pine, pretty smooth. There's a bit of minor wave in places but you don't notice it.
I flipped the table over and nailed the bottom shelf into place on the table legs with some long nails I got from the hardware store. Then it was simply a matter of attaching the wheels on the bottom with some wood screws and washers.
I primed and painted the base with the same gray paint I used on the sideboard, Benjamin Moore "Gray" 2121-10. That way, everything would tie in together. I'm SUPER pleased and proud of how the whole thing turned out. It's just shy of counter height...perfect. I think I'll add either a dish towel hook or a towel bar, or both. Stay tuned for that...