Project Idea: LED Coffee Table

I have wanted to build a project with LEDs for a long time. This weekend I came up with an idea, an LED coffee table.

The table would have a large compartment in the center to house the electronics and either a clear or translucent top to allow the light to shine through. Ideally I would use a combination of red, green, and blue LEDs connected to a microcontroller. This would enable the table to fade in and out of different colors. However, the design could be greatly simplified by choosing a single color LED and hard-wiring it to a power source, excluding the microcontroller altogether.