Finished Project

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Today I am grateful for finished projects. After looking all over the place for reasonably priced, dark TV tables and not finding anything, with a stand, for under a hundred bucks, I decided to re-fashion our old tables.

They started out blond and varnished. When we painted, my oldest granddaughter and I got the idea to paint the bottoms the tan of one wall and the tops the red of another wall. She is very creative so I enlisted her to design four large masks to put on top of the tables to keep them from being boring. She did a great job, but that was probably when she was eight and she turned 16 yesterday, so it was time to do them over.

First I got the correct paint. What a concept. Then I sanded, (sort of-I hate sanding) and painted two coats. Because the outline of the masks was still there, I used gold paint and just whacked away at them until I was satisfied. Then two coats of gloss varnish, some touch up because we had used some before all the varnish was on, more varnish and voila. . .two months later. . .they are declared finished.

These are two of my favorites, before & after.

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