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Guest post by Elise with Sundaycharmblog.com
I am thrilled to be back with you today to share my latest project: a swiss cross coffee table.
As I mentioned in my last guest post, my husband and I bought our first house this summer, and we’ve been taking our time furnishing it. We committed to waiting for the perfect table, chair, lamp, etc to fill a space in a room instead of buying something mediocre just to fill the void. When it came to a coffee table, I wasn’t thrilled with any of the options I was seeing in stores, and so our living room had a very large blank space in front of our couch. . . for months.
On one of my weekly Goodwill trips, I spotted a desk with great bones at the Fishers’ Goodwill. The stain was too dark for our color scheme, and there were small spots of paint splattered all over the desktop, but I couldn’t get past the potential!
Knowing the size was perfect for our larger and square living room (we tried a normal size coffee table and it looked dwarfed in living room), my husband tackled trimming the legs down to coffee table height (17 inches) while I laboriously sanded the whole table down to the original wood. The result?
Now the coffee table was ready for paint. I decided to paint the base and legs Sherwin Williams Bohemian Lace white, and I used a white wash approach by diluting my white paint with water (1:1 ratio) for the top of the coffee table. After letting the paint dry for 24 hours, I cut eight swiss cross templates out of contact paper (it’s what I had on hand!) and traced the templates onto the table. Using a paintbrush, I applied two layers of white paint (not diluted) in the swiss cross template outlines. And to seal the table, I used a MiniWax Polycyclic, letting it cure for two days before moving it into our living room.
Are you ready to see the swiss cross coffee table sitting in my still-in-progress living room?
Donna says: August 26, 2015 at 6:37 pm Lovely! Love the reuse, redo idea. I just wish I had the vision to see the possibilities! Reply
Lovely! Love the reuse, redo idea. I just wish I had the vision to see the possibilities!
Jodi says: August 26, 2015 at 7:04 pm Awesome look…love the sanded natural wood ❤ Reply
Awesome look…love the sanded natural wood ❤
Tara says: August 28, 2015 at 9:04 am Love gray and tan together! I’ve went overboard with gray in my living room and am planning to lighten it up with tans and natural woods. Love seeing these pics! Reply
Love gray and tan together! I’ve went overboard with gray in my living room and am planning to lighten it up with tans and natural woods. Love seeing these pics!
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