IKEA table wars

I love my husband dearly, but must admit that we don't always see eye to eye on everything. For one, if you have been reading this blog for any length of time, you will have guessed that I value aesthetics, beauty, design, etc. How things look is very important to me. My husband is all about functionality. If he had to choose a design scheme for our home, it would probably be army surplus (you think I'm joking). He freely admits to this and asks why I want his "unqualified opinion" whenever I ask him how something looks. Yet he still seems to have opinions about so many things.

Like this, for example. This is my music room where I will be teaching voice lessons this fall. It became necessary for some unnamed reason (like the need to play computer games on-line with his buddies and not wake-up the rest of the house at night), to put a computer in this room. I was a little panicked at the thought. Have you seen how many ugly computer desks there are out there? So I started looking around to see what I could live with in there that wouldn't be a major investment. (We do share the value of frugality!) We decided to head to IKEA, thinking that would be our least expensive option. That is where he found this...

At $34.99, the price was certainly right, but I just couldn't go for it in that room. My idea of compromise was to get the dark table top (of the same VIKA line) and put on these cool legs.

The combo (as pictured above) ran about $60--much less than any decent options I had seen at Wal-mart or Target, and still has style! I am actually quite in love with these legs. They are kind of that fun bridge between modern and classic styling. DH still isn't quite sure. In his "unqualified opinion" they are a little "over-the-top." What do you think?