A Funky Painted Table

OK Kampers!!!!!

This is the dealio!!!!!

I am going back down to Flerida on Thursday for two weeks,

(unless I need to rush back up again.....)

So.....

I am going to hold off on showing more of Connie's beach house until I'm sitting in my air conditioned home down where it be hotter!!!!!

My dad's doing great, but for this year, I am going to stay closer to him

(and my mom)

up here in the big old north.

but!!!!!

I'm taking a little tropical vacation to help me handle all this #$% snow.....

Sooooooo.......

Today I'm going to show off something else I made for my niece Miriam's living room.

I found this little metal table for her on ebay.

And convinced her to buy it, telling her I could paint it up and make it look

 cute!!!!!

Well.....

Miriam has wanted to add lots of different colors to her new living room.

I have been stuck in blue, white, cream and brown.

We found this pretty fabric for toss pillows, that would add some more color......

The blue background is the color I chose for them for their walls.

The sofa and chair slip covers are going to be off white.

You guys know what the bench looks like.....

Soooooo.......

Miriam wanted me to bring some more coral into the mix.

WELLLLL.....

She now be married.....

She can't go throwing a lot of pink and frills around the house.

I know I was pushing it with her hubby, Ross, by adding the pleats to the piano bench.....

But I love my niece.....

(don't tell her I said that though.....)

So I tried to do this table in Scandinavian Pink chalk paint.

This is how it looked with one coat......

OY OY OY OY OY

It hurts my eyes even to look at it..... 

Soooooo.....

I calmly reminded myself that I had gotten out of

 worse design situations like 

this!!!!!

So, I did what any self respecting chalk painter would do.....

I grabbed the Old White!!!!!

and painted over some of the pink....

I started breathing a little easier.....

I really didn't feel like repainting the inside of the magazine holders,

but it was

ugly...

After one coat, I realized I wasn't out of the woods, and it would need at least 1 more coat to cover the pink....

I had mixed up some green a while ago, and still had it kicking around, so I pulled that out and attacked the book holder rack.

I started liking where I was headed!!!!!

Then I got out my little brush and cleaned up all the overlapping paint.

I wanted clean lines where the colors met.

Then I waxed it with clear wax.

I thought about using some dark wax, but decided I liked the crisp freshness of this little table.

Here it is up out of my dungeon work room.....

When a project is going down the tubes.....

just take a deep breath and realize that this happens to 

everyone!!!!

I love the way it turned out.

I just hope it isn't too girly for Ross, 

'cuz

I'm not redoing it!!!!!

Here are side by sides of before and after!!!!

 I think I am da bomb!!!!!

Later, Gator