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!