One last table post

This is my first attempt at building without any help from my husband. The table is pieced together with some leftover bead board, legs salvaged from a curb side coffee table, an old window, and scrap wood . I probably will never make a living at furniture building but it makes me smile. I have been slowing acquiring the old letterpress blocks and will hopefully be able to finish the top by the end of summer and flea market season.

This table measures up

I forgot to take any before shots of this table, but the after shots are pretty sweet if I do say so myself. I loved this $20 table when I saw it at one of my favorite junk spots. The metal "chicken wire" on the sides are icing on the cake.
I had purchased a bunch of old (and not so old) rulers at a shop for $.25 a piece and had this idea floating around for a while. When I did some measuring I found out that this table was the perfect size. My math head husband figured out what sizes to cut the rulers. I only had 11 rulers and I wanted some to run the full length but didn't want to have more than 2 cuts per ruler. I glued the rulers down, added brad nails, and 3 coats of poly. A little white paint, distressing, and some glaze/paint really shows off the pretty woodwork.

My favorite part is that since the rulers were purchased at a local antique store they are all from this area.

Mis-Matchy endtables

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I did not know how lovely the top of this table was until after I stripped and sanded off the ugly stain. I think this is one of my favorite pieces in my living room now.
This one has a beautiful inlay pattern on the drawer. I stripped and sanded the wood, stained it with dark walnut, painted and distressed, and then applied paste wax.

I have one more end table to share with you but it deserves its own post.

Darn you cheap masking tape!

I am currently working on some projects to finish up my "get the kids and all their toys and video games out of my living room" makeover. I put some masking tape on the newly painted table (yes it was fully dry, 3 days worth of drying) so that I could do the polyurethane on the top of the table. When I pulled off the tape most of the new paint came with it, yes I know I should have primed it but I did sand it so I thought the paint had adhered. I was planning on distressing the paint but this was not what I had in mind!

Stereo Cabinet/Entertainment Center makeover

I picked up this stereo cabinet at an antique store for $20. It needed some TLC, I added sides to the drawer which once held a record player and added a shelf in the upper portion. The top was sanded down and then stained. The rest was sanded and painted (oops paint), then lightly distressed. I added the burlap to the doors, which allows me to hide the Wii, the cable box and the Xbox and still be able to use the remotes. The Xbox seems to end up sitting on the floor more often than not, I'm not quite sure why.

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