I LOVE the open space at the bottom. I had the perfect plan for that!
When the hubbs brought it to the basement I gave it a good sanding with my new palm sander. Yes, the hubbs bought this for me. Most women would KILL their husbands if they bought them a tool, but I was screaming in the driveway :)
I decided this would look so cute painted a creamy white and distressed. (Can you tell I'm really into that look from the last piece I did?) Well during the KILZ process, I realized if I was going to distress it, when I used my sander you would see white, not the brown from the wood. Halt. Stop project immediately. Use nail polish remover to remove some KILZ from the edges. Yes it actually worked! Luckily I hadn't painted much so I just skipped a lot of the edges. When applying KILZ you really don't have to be exact.
You can see my half KILZ-ed piece, half painted. Notice the edges on the front and bottom where I left off KILZ.
After I finished painting, I gave the edges a good sanding with my new sander :) Then I spray painted the handle in ORB and put a basket from Joann's on the bottom.
Here it is before......
Meets After!!!
Look at how cute the drawer turned out!
And the detail at the bottom is so cute! I love it!!
This has been one of my favorite transformations so far! (It must be because of the new sander from the hubbs!)
Love how that turned out! The distressed look is great :)
ReplyDeleteSo cute!
ReplyDeleteit looks so much better painted white! much more up to date, and that basket is the perfect touch!
ReplyDeleteThanks :)
ReplyDeleteIt's fantastic~ Love how this came out. The color and distressing is perfect- would love if you would come share at my Friday linky party- this is a great project! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's darling! Good save on the Kilz, too. And, btw, a few years back I asked Hubs for a palm sander for my birthday! You think it has something to do with us blogger types, lol?
ReplyDeleteThat looks wonderful! I love the basket below and the little bit of distressing is perfect!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for linking this up to Inspiration Friday last weekend!
Vanessa
looks really nice... that girl sure didn't realize what she had. :)
ReplyDeletejackie
Hi there- just stopping back to say thanks for sharing this at FNF! :)
ReplyDeleteI have a couple of little nite stands that need a makeover... something like this would be great! Need to get that done.
ReplyDeleteI like yours- was your little table on CL very much? You can get the best deals there.
I love Craig and his incredibly long list!
Cute table!
Hi i love this look, would like to do my bedroom furniture like this. Our furniture however is just cheap wood (particle board type stuff i would say). can it still be done? Do i need to sand it down first or just paint over top of it? Then for the distres part you just sand areas to get to the original color? What color of white did you use? thanks
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog and I love a lot of your pieces!
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, one of my favorite birthday presents EVER was a power drill. My mom asked for (and received) one for Christmas. We were both using ours yesterday to build raised garden boxes. ;P