This little guy has been long gone, but I just wanted to share…
Man, this was a sad little table. I grabbed it off of Craig’s List just because it was so cheap. I thought whatever I get out of it, I’ll probably make a decent return. I used all materials I already had at home.
Green paint that was 10 years old.
And drawer pulls that were recently attached to a tree in my backyard.
The close ups shows how rough the surface was. So I decided to embrace that condition and rough it up even more. I also used my orbital sander to take all the hard edges off, rounding the edges, corners on the drawer, trims, etc.
Then with a quick “glaze” of diluted brown paint to fill in all of the imperfections, I was satisfied!
Here’s what I started with:
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