Dressing up an old side table with spray paint

This lovely table started out life in the mid 60's or 70's most likely. Made mostly of particle board, I really had to look past what it WAS to see what it could BECOME. But I liked it's lines.

 

   You can see it in the photo below on the work bench, along with a couple of other tables I picked up for projects.

First I took the table apart. The center spindles just unscrewed from both levels and the legs screw off easily as well.

I sanded and sanded the tops, and after masking the edges with blue tape, I spray painted them several times with white spray paint, sanding between coats.

As for the legs, I wanted to give them a dipped look. To keep the legs standing for their painting, I used the screws that were already there and screwed them into a piece of scrap wood.  This allows me to spin them around etc without touching them.

 I masked them off with tape. this is a bit tricky because they are tapered.

Step one is getting a strait line.

I used old plastic bags to protect the parts I did not want to paint.

After that I oiled the wood parts of the legs with some Howard's and painted the edges of the table tops,  by hand with  brown paint and a small artist brush.

I'm having trouble deciding whether to keep this one or sell it. I love how it turned out.

Now on to the next table project.

Found Around-Friday-Drawers

I'm going to start a new feature on my blog and I'm calling it "Found Around-Friday". I'll be showing links to cool re-purposed articles that I've "Found Around" the web, hence the name :). It may not be every Friday but I'll always feature them on a Friday.

To start with look at these great dressers I found on dornob.com


The builder starts with old drawers and builds boxes around them making a new, unique, fun and funky dressers. And you all know I looooove fun and Funky.


What a fun idea I give it an A+ for repurposing, uniqueness, functionality, and beauty.

You can read the complete article and see more pictures here
But don't forget to leave me a comment first, I loooove comments :)

New Project-Old Table new look

Over a year ago I found this great old oak desk (I say desk because it has 2 drawers) at an estate sale. The price was great and so I snapped it up.

We brought it home, and DH decided to start stripping the finish to re-do it. I thought it was fine as it was and would have just rubbed it down with some Howards wax and called it done.

Before long we realized that this table had been finished with some kind of steroid varnish that was about 1/8" thick and nothing would budge it without lots and lots of work. We tried scraping, chemicals, sanding etc.



So it sat in the barn for a year collecting dust.

Last week I decided that I was going to paint the top and rub the bottom with Howards and if DH didn't like it I would sell it. So I got started.

First I roughed up the remaining finish with the belt sander, and softened some of the edges where we had been able to strip finish and where we had not.

Then I began to put a coat of paint, only on the top. I'll be doing a distressed technique to it next.


I forgot to get a true before pic so this will have to be it. I had already started with the paint.

Right after this my allergies kicked in and it got cold and wet outside. So things slowed down, but I am making progress. More pics tomorrow. Needless to say, DH loves it now :)

This is only the beginning of my painting technique.
I'll be showing it step-by-step all week.