I think there were only 6 times in the course of the past week that I yelled an expletive and said I was taking this back to the transfer station. What was this "secret" project? A table. A pretty cool looking table at that. Hubby and I have been talking about how nice it would be to have a table we could use for having guests over. Right now we sit at the bar in the kitchen. I pulled into the Transfer Station last Saturday and saw this beauty! Well...not beauty, it needed some love.
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| Poorly painted table with more chips than I could count, BUT awesome hardware! |
Before even consulting my better half, I went to Lowe's (for the 8,304 time since moving to Fairbanks) and picked up what I would need to strip off the bad paint job and refinish it.
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| Trip #1 of 3 |
I had great hopes of the table being solid wood. If that was the case I figured it would be the find of the century. As soon as I started to strip off the paint I was pretty sure my antique table was antique crap, but still cool antique crap.
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| They make this look MUCH easier in the infomercials! |
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| MUCH, MUCH Easier!! |
After scrapping the table for two days, and trying several types of strippers (ha...paint strippers) I ended up trying Citristrip. Despite the fact that I have the patience of a 5 year old, I would use this again. I needed to wait MUCH longer, but it worked just as well, and didn't smell horrible!
After my dreams of real wood went out the door, I tried to think of another plan of what to do with the top.
In the meantime, I took it apart and got ready to do whatever I had yet planned. I sanded the top to even it out. If I had more patience I would have used wood filler to fill in some cracks that I didn't. Oh well.
My husband is the one suggested that I paint the top. We went to Lowe's (trip #8,305) and looked at paint. We talked about it and decided that it would be fun to paint it with chalkboard paint. We picked a dark green color to match our kitchen. I picked a bright glossy white for the legs.
So lots of painting, and painting, and painting and it was done! I reassembled the table, tightened everything up and ta da! A table!
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| Like my footprint on the underside? Opps. Need to clean that! |
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| Both sides lift up to make it into a large table. It's pretty cool. |
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One of the two drawers. I need to special order the
hardware 2 1/4" handles aren't very common. |
I'm pretty excited to use it. What do you think?
It's great, awesome lines. The chalkboard will be a blast as Bug gets older!
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be super fun. That is until we go to anyone else's house and he drawn on their tables!
DeleteAmazing find, Brooke! You did a nice job fixing it up, too!
ReplyDeleteI was so excited when I saw it. I wish there was a way to video me dragging this thing out of the dumpster and making it fit in my car! It's a good thing I have a "mom mobile" now!
DeleteIt turned out beautifully! Good job!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!
DeleteThat cleaned up really nicely, great job!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteI love your color choices! I wish I was that daring. It's very pretty.
ReplyDeleteIt's SUPER easy to be daring when you get it for free out of the trash. :)
DeleteI'm way to impatient with strippers (PAINT strippers). I always put it on, and then like tap my toes and start scraping before the time is up, which results in me having to aply again, and again and again. And then by the time I get the paint off, I'm like 'hmm maybe it will look cool like this in all it's multi colored glory!" and then I am reminded that no it in fact doesn't look cool. It took me almost one year to finish a project I took on... I have now been banned from bringing home free furniture that needs "just a little TLC!!"
ReplyDeleteThat was me! I put it on and waited MAYBE 3 seconds... lol. Banned ? That's no fun!
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