Emerald City - Tall And Skinny 3-Tier Stand Fix-Up #1

Sometimes I buy things that look like they should have been placed at a curb side pick-up.

This is one of those pieces.  I think I paid $5.00 for it. 
 I know.....

                                                              
 Most of the joints needed gluing and the piece on top of the drawer had come completely off.

I glued and clamped the pieces and then lightly sanded it. 
I wanted some of the wood to show through so I just gave it a thin coat of paint.
I used a Behr Ultra Flat sampler in a green (sorry it doesn't have the name on the bottle).

FYI:  Emerald Green is the "in" color this year!

The handle was broken so I spray painted a knob in Krylon's Oil Rubbed Bronze and replaced that.
Here is the end result!

BEFORE                                                       AFTER

                   









  It SOLD a few days after I took it into the store.

                                                                

Trash-For-Mation #2 Bookshelf Tutorial

trash   (trash) ,  n.  1. anything worthless or useless; rubbish.

I found this shelf on the side of the road in the big and bulky city pick up.  It was just waiting to be rescued by someone who could see it was clearly not "trash".

                                   

The paint was peeling too bad to just paint over it, so I scraped most of it off and then sanded it down.

I added a plywood back to give it stability and well, a back!  Here it is sanded with the back.

I then took a scrap piece of molding I had and drew and cut around the shape of the curved back of the side so the top shelf would have a back too and be a little "spiffy".

 
                        

I also added a piece of the same molding to the bottom as there was nothing there at all to start with.  I had already started painting it and realized it needed "something".

It was a pain to do two different colors and I don't know if I would invest again in the time it took to tape off, paint one color and then tape off the other surface and paint the opposite color.  (Had I known ahead a time I was going to use two colors, I would have painted the backing before I put it on.  This would have saved hours!) I then distressed it and rubbed a stain over the whole shelf to antique it.

Here it is finished:

  This is what they saw:                Here is what I see: 
BEFORE                                                         AFTER

                     

Night Stand Inspiration From Scrapbook Paper

This is a typical night stand/bedside table we found

We used scrapbook paper for inspiration.

First we lightly sanded the whole table, spray primed it, and then spray painted it with white flat paint.

We painted the drawer edge and bottom piece black with acrylic black paint and the inside back of the backing with black spray paint because the paper wasn't wide enough to cover the whole thing.
The paper was decoupaged to the inside back of the table.

We (meaning my sister)took a part of the design and painted it on the drawer front to work with the knob I found in my collection.  It had a perfect matching design on the knob.

Then she blew up the paper and traced and painted the bigger design on top.  If you are artistically challenged like I am, you could cut it out after blowing it up and decoupage it on.

PAPER                                              HAND PAINTING

                              

After the table was done it was scuffed up (while my sister looked the other way) and finished off with a clear wax.

I added a cut piece of gift bag  I found at the Dollar Store to the inside of the drawer because it matched so well.

Here it is finished!

 BEFORE                                                               AFTER

                                                                                                            

 

                     If you are really aware you may notice I used a different piece of scrapbook paper in the end because I tore the other one when I was decoupaging it on. Uugg!