Fixer Upper

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: