A Lil Shabby Sofa Table

Sofa Table made not so Shabby...


My first attempt at "really" redoing a piece of furniture, definately had its ups, and downs. Thanks to a little skill I have recently aquired called patience, I came through ok :)

This table started out as an unfinished table, I purchased from Joanns about 5 years ago. I stained it a dark walnut color, and for a long time, our flat screen t.v. sat on it. That is until My hubby decided to get the biggest t.v. in the world(that doesn't need a stand.) Now the poor thing has been tossed from room to room...now its in the garage, awaiting a new home :)

I decided to paint her. So for the first step I sanded her down a bit then sprayed her with a primer...

This part led to alot of frustration...because I was too impatient to wait until the baby woke up to go to the store and grab "white" preimer, I used gray...ugh and man was it a pain in the butt to cover, it seeped into the grain of the wood, and oh man I'm never buying gray primer again...lol
K... so 4 cans later of Heirloom White here she is...

I also wanted to change out the hardware...she just had some plain old wood ones. The ones I changed them to had 2 holes, so I had to drill two new holes...The easiest way I could think to do this was put a piece of masking tape across the back of the new hardware and mark where the holes were. I then centered the existing hole between the 2 new holes, and drilled where the marks were, like below...

Cool huh! That worked great.


Then to line the drawer...I found this super cute Wrapping sized scrap book paper at the 99 cent store...and it was just right, I cut it to size, then sprayed the inside of the drawer with some Krylon Spray Adheisive, and layed the paper down...


After some debating on whether or not to glaze...and with some wonderful tips from my friend Angie @ All My Treasures, I actually decided not to glaze. I just sanded the corners a bit, and I really like how she turned out! I almost want to keep her, but theres no room in my casa for her. So for now she sits covered in the garage, until I find her a home.

One more time...The finished product!

That was fun. I will do it again for sure. Actually I'm working on a little nightstand make-over right now, so stick around and see what I've been up to.

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