Upcycled, organization with quirky style

Hubby surprised me with this one. He's always interested in these multi drawer metal cabinets when I find them. I picked this one up for him at a recent estate sale. Wish I had a before pic, but I don't .

Anywhoo...He surprised me with it's makeover. Hope you like it.

Here's his process in a nutshell. He need to buy  2 handles from Home Depot and spray paint. He cleaned Cleaned, sanded with scotch bright pads, and painted, and then found some fonts of various inspirational words, printed them and Voila!

I love his color choices.  Good Job Honey!

A Simple plant Stand

I love these vintage German Plant stands that I see all over Pinterest. But I don't' think I've ever seen one in person, and they are much too pricey for me.

So when I drove by a resale shop recently, and spotted this beauty sitting outside, I had to make a quick U-turn to check it out,  and for only $10 bucks I had to scoop it up.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it, First I sanded and stained the the wood supports, and then masked and taped the heck out of it. Then a few cans of spray paint later I had this...

I think it works great as a fun side table in my mid-century room and I love the colors.

I love what a few cans of spray paint can do to a piece of old furniture.

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.