Awesome Sofa Table Redo

So I used to be a furniture snob and had to have the best of the best.  That's what happens when you grow up in a furniture family.  Recently I decided that I really don't like all new furniture. (still love the smell of new furniture though. :) I like to trade out my decor so often that I can't afford to buy new, but would rather redo.  It makes it hard to spray paint a table that I spent more than $20 to buy.

I got this table a couple of years back for free.  It was on it's way to the dump because it had no nuts and bolts to put it together.  I couldn't let it go, so took a leg to Ace Hardware and the awesome helper guy fitted the legs with nuts and bolts.  It cost me a whopping $2.50 for the hardware. The table has lived in my garage, at my sisters house and now came back to me when she moved.

(it does have drawers, I just forgot to put them back in before I took the picture :)

I decided it needed a coat of Rustoleum heirloom white paint.

I coated the entire table twice over to make sure that it was coated really well. Then I glazed it with Home Depots Martha Living Faux Finish Glaze in black. 

I did the glaze a section at a time, brushing on and the wiping off.  It was a little too dark for me when I was done, so I sanded it with a fine sand paper until I got the desired finish.

I glazed the whole table table giving extra attention to the edges and making them a bit darker. It gave them that vintage rustic look. 

I wanted to stencil the front of the drawers so I found a pattern that I liked and cut it out of contact paper on my dinosaur of a plotter/vinyl cutter.  I bought my plotter in prehistoric times before the cricuit and silhouette were on the market. I sometimes wish I had a small one, but it works so I can't justify replacing it.

I spray painted the drawer fronts gray first, then put the contact paper on. 

The drawers needed a coat of the heirloom white next. When the paint dried, I removed the contact paper so the gray would show and then glazed the drawer fronts like the table.

The knobs were already a dark gray color so they didn't need to be painted.

This is my new favorite peice of furniture:

Now I realize that I need a new wall color.  Too bad I can't spray paint that too!

 

Front Door Delima

I love adding color to the outside of my home just as much as the inside.  My BFF Carli and I made Valentines Day wreaths to go on our front doors and they were fabulous.

We cut 1 1/2 inch strips of burlap in the red and white and rolled them up like rosettes.  There are tons and tons of tutorials out in blog land about how to make rosette flowers, but the simplest for me I learned from Carli.  We just tied a knot in one end of the fabric and started rolling and gluing.  You can make the flowers tight and small or loose and large.  Either way, I loved them.  Now here is my problem:

My house faces south and doesn't really have any protection from the weather.  My fabulous wreath faded in no time...  I decided that since I am so addicted to spray painting I would try something a little different this time.

I found this awesome wreath at the DI (Utahs version of the good will)  for $2.  It was a normal grapevine wreath covered in a gold baby's breath with glitter.  Some of the looks I got from others as I was carrying my treasure up to purchase were priceless.  I pulled the baby's breath off and used a utility knife to get the extra glue off, and spray painted it (of course). I am really hoping that Rustoleum spray paint can stand up to the weather here.  I wanted to add a little more to it, so I just rolled some fast rosettes in coordinating colors and glued them on. I did add a strip of fabric to where the door hanger was going to rub, because I didn't want any of the paint to chip off.

It cost me just over $2 to make considering I already had the fabric and spray paint at home.  I love when something this fun is under $5 to make.  It makes me happy to pull into my driveway and see a fun bright wreath on my door.  Hopefully it will last all summer, but only time will tell!