The Patio Table That Opens Into a Cooler and a Bar

Outside, the drinks are either warm or indoors, and the host is the one making the trip. The usual fix is a cooler on the ground that everyone crouches over and that still leaves nowhere to set a glass. This is the side table instead: the body is a 7.5 gallon cooler that takes up to forty 12 oz cans on ice, and the top lifts 10 inches up its post, where a twist of the locking ring holds it, turning a 22.5 inch coffee table into a 32.5 inch bar, which is also the height you reach it from sitting in a hot tub. Close the lid and the dark woven drum reads as an ordinary patio table again, and the meltwater leaves through a plug in the base instead of being carried across the lawn.