I bought 3 tables from my favorite thrift store with the intention of spray painting them and displaying them in my house.
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| Remember these guys? |
Last time around, I showed you how I changed the heart tower from plain to glitter-ific! This time around, I'm going to show you what happened to that small little green table.
If you recall, the green table is the table that started me on this journey. When I first saw it, I knew exactly what I'd do to it.
When Joe, the ol' ball and chain, and I bought our bedroom set over 7 years ago, we only bought one night stand. Our old bedroom was tiny. It was hard enough to get the one night stand in there. He hasn't had a night table of any sort for so long that he could probably live without one for the rest of his life without ever having one. But, I love him and I'm happy enough to think of someone besides myself while out shopping!
The green table was the perfect table, but... the color... it had to go.
This is where my story takes a turn for the worst. The top of the table had some divots, so I grabbed my sandpaper and Joe found our electric sander and I got to sanding. I only planned to sand it a little bit. But the green paint started to peel off. I'm sure there's a perfectly logical reason for this. Maybe it was stained and polyurethaned prior to being painted causing the paint not to stick. Maybe they used oil-based paint. I don't know. If you know, you can let me know so I don't make the same mistake in the future.
Anyway, the paint started peeling off. The already non-flat surface was still not very flat, plus now it had peel marks and no amount of me peeling that old green paint made it look any better. I was starting to feel like this table would be a complete loss, but, what the heck. I figured I'd soldier on.
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| Primer, please help me! |
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| After a couple coats of primer. |
I'd hoped the primer would be the answer.
I was highly disappointed.
Again, I moved onto the next step even though this table was looking worse and worse!
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| Hello, lighter, more on trend green color! |
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| I love how the table looks in this picture. The sun makes it look pretty artsy. |
Alas, painting it my preferred green color didn't make the top any nicer. I wish I could get a picture of how crappy the top looks because it looks pretty crappy.
Joe, in trying to cheer me up, told me, "Now you have a good reason to buy a big doily or something to put on top of it! Plus, no one's going to see it in our bedroom."
Joe, truer and more cheerier words were never spoken. I haven't yet, but I'm going to buy the best doily to put on this table and that will be the perfect thing to salvage it!
In the mean time, I put some other random items on it to show how it looks in our bedroom:
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| We recently decided to redecorate the bedroom. This color will really tie some things together! |
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| I didn't put it next to the bed for the pictures because I want to do a big bedroom reveal later! |
OK, that's it for table number dos. I didn't want to leave you guys on a low note, so I saved the best for last! Stay tuned for table number 3, coming soon!
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