One idea I saw on Houzz was to use a child's table (round) as a coffee table. I thought that was a neat idea. You could get a wooden one at a good price. Not this one, as I think a darker color would be better, but as an example-- you can choose the height and diameter (18" would be good): $158 It has a laminate top, so you would not have to worry about chipping, AFAIK. Another possibility would be to look at MCM coffee tables-- they often have laminate tops as well and I think would look good with your furniture (w/o actually having seen the room).

it seems a lot of people are offended by the word dated. Believe it or not, its not a word I made up. Its a real word! I wonder if the paneling, olive green appliances and orange carpeting of the 70'[s is considered timeless? Not offended, but just as Jennifer says, "irritated" - or maybe even less than that, just thinking it's simply not accurate. I know you didn't make it up, it gets used often on this site. (I have brought this up in the past on other threads.) The wood paneling in one room of my childhood house looked "cheap" even then, even through a child's eyes. Not "dated". "Cheap." I thought the avocado appliances looked rather cool, and though I love green, today that shade of appliance/avo green isn't to my taste. I think those appliances work fine in certain settings. We never ran into orange carpeting back in the day, and I lost any interest in shag when I first had to help Mom clean the little bit of it she had. (Man, that stuff collects cat hairs!!!) So I would call shag "impractical", rather than "dated". Now, orange carpeting... I got a bright orange rug for outside the basement clean-up bathroom shower. Cheerful, for a clean up bath/utility room with no outside window. Dated: dated is using a washboard instead of a washing machine. Dated is using a typewriter instead of a laptop or a "device". I remember friends in my youth who stopped listening to what had been their favorite tunes because those songs were so "last year", ie, "dated". Me, I just simply added new stuff to my listening loves.

Large scale resin filling occurs at the quarry, not the home. The slabs are dunked under pressure. What you describe might be done by someone who does clear epoxy coating. It’s risky, and could peel unless etched first. It will also drive you out of your home for several days and cost almost as much as replacement, while leaving your work surface the equivalent of the plastic laminate that you likely replaced. . Some stones just shed crystals. That ends up being small pits. It’s not considered a defect, and is no less sanitary than any of the rest of the stone. All stone is porous and not NSF approved because of that. You might do the DIY superglue and razor blade scrape fill for the ones in the most prominent areas, and see how that does. If it is too much for you to deal with, replacement is the best option.

Unfortunately I now have more than enough time to get the room ready - I called Macy’s to get an update on the couch order ( was supposed to be delivered end of July ). And it was pushed out till September! And of course nobody thought to notify me... good thing I checked in. 😂