Broken coffee table into cocktail ottoman!

Well...I'm just tickled about how well this turned out. When I went to the store to get everything I needed to transform this broken table into an ottoman I had a completely different idea in my head. I had planned to paint the frame white and distress it with a map fabric on the cushion. Instead I came home with a spa blue damask fabric and ivory paint...and I didn't distress it. I'm in love! If it doesn't sell quickly I may end up keeping it!

Here is the not so lovely before.

Not only had the glass been broken but the X bars had been destroyed. I considered repairing them but why make life difficult? They would have been too brittle and I don't want a piece breaking in a client's house. That's just bad business. So I removed them and sawed off the pegs that they attached to. I painted the whole thing in Madison Avenue by Valspar and then added a cushion top with the GORGEOUS spa blue damask fabric I found at Joann's. I have so much left I'm seriously considering reupholstering my dining chairs with it. I don't care for the current fabric and I just love this SO MUCH! My set is black, though, so I need to put them together to really see how it looks. Anyway, here are the after pictures! She's for sale!!

Isn't she gorgeous!? And comfy, too! That's 3 inch foam!

A wedding gift

My brother-in-law and a good friend of mine got married this past Friday. My friend had been talking about wanting a new dining set because the one she had was pub height and she didn't feel it worked for their space. I knew then that that is what I wanted to get for their wedding gift! I was super excited because their taste is electic so I could have a lot of fun with it. I decided on an Alice in Wonderland type theme and went to town. This is what I started out with.

And

Just a plain old oak table and some chairs that actually came from a different set.

So I wanted the table to have black and white stripes and then I got a lazy susan to paint checkered. The stripes weren't too bad but let me tell you, you'd better want those checkers if you're going to start because it is painstaking! Tape and cut and touch up, and touch up again! But it turned out awesome and they love it. That makes it all worth it!

Here are a few pictures of the process.

As you can see when I pulled the tape up it also pulled up some paint so don't worry that you're not perfect because it can always be touched up!! It's still frustrating, though. After I finished all this up I antiqued it with black paint and the dry brush method and them saturated it in poly! I wanted this baby smooooooth. The chairs were easy. I just painted them black and poly'd them and voila!

Pretty cool, right? I think it might be my favorite I've done so far!