Dave found this super cool table laying by the roadside while he was on his way to a job. He tossed it in the back of his work van and brought it home to see what I thought. I immediately loved the style of the piece and the detail of the studs on the drawer.
The table was a little bit wobbly, but Dave noticed when he grabbed it that it had a few screws loose. He tightened them, and we were happy to find that the piece was pretty sturdy. I had a vision immediately of using a slate blue color with some sort of pop. I picked out two colors from our paint shelf and painted stripes of both on a scrap piece of particle board to see how they looked in reality. I liked the result, and went ahead and started on the drawer first.
We took off the knob and popped out the metal studs. I sanded it by hand and then used painters tape to paint the two outer slats blue and the middle slat a cool burnt orange color. We changed the knob to a metal pull we had on hand and used a wire brush on the studs before nailing them back in.
For the frame, I used an electric sander and then wiped the entire piece down with laquer thinner. We then applied two coats of the slate blue, and I’m totally loving how it came out. I’m thinking about using it as a new nightstand for Chace, but the size of it is so great that it could also function well as a side or accent table in a living room.
I couldn’t be happier with how the final product. Since the table was found on the side of the road, and we used a drawer pull that we had on hand, the only cost was the paint. The blue and the yellow/orange were purchased off the “oops” shelf at Home Depot for fifty cents a piece, so the entire project only cost $1. That I can totally dig.
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