Tales of the Table

This darn table. What started out as a relatively easy project became one of those Murphy's Law things (I have a lot of those).

Anyway, about two months ago, I fell in love with this table buried under a mountain of junk at a thrift store. When I saw the price, I knew it was meant to be. It needed some TLC, but not that much.

Brought it home and spray painted the legs a flat black and they looked great. The wood top needed to be sanded and re-stained, so I tackled that this weekend, and it came out DARK...way too dark. With the black legs, the whole table lost its original beauty. (See photo, above right).

What to do? Instead of re-staining, I thought that I would repaint, so I asked my friend Cassie at Primitive & Proper for some color advice (she's an expert at painting furniture). She gave me some advice and I started collecting paint chips.

Then I remembered what my business was all about --using what I have or getting things from tag sales, oops paint sections, etc. So, taking my own advice, I scoured by basement paint shelves and choose Benjamin Moore's Fernwood Green (which, by the way, covers my office walls). I love this paint because it looks different everywhere you use it -- and it always looks good EXCEPT when you can't paint. Yes, the color looked great with the black (well, almost black) wood top, but I screwed up on painting the legs ... another quick email to Cassie. More advice. Repaint.

Two days later, I'm done. I love the results, but this project was only supposed to take me about two hours. 

Back to my craft closet to tackle some smaller projects...