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Coffee (Table): Our Lazy/ Rainy Sunday Project
After Melissa’s baby shower on Sunday, Timmy
and I needed a rainy day Sunday project. The other day I rearranged the living
room (“leaving so much more room for activities!!” – Step Brothers ) and I
realized we needed a coffee table! After framing my TOTALLY amazing new “antique”
(oxymoron?) sign, and up-cycling an antique china cabinet door into a sign (below) I new the living room make-over needed one more thing....
We had a collection of antique headboards that
were just waiting to be turned into something more fabulous….!... or collect dust.
I came across a DIY blog (http://littlebitsof.com)
and saw their instructions on an up- cycled pallet into a coffee table. We used
this as our inspiration and started our little project.
Building something together is really a true
test of a relationship....
It really causes you to hear each other and work
together to create something beautiful. It
also causes Timmy to soft-sand faster, and for me to multitask. While we worked
on project: coffee table, I was also making all of us comfort food for this
rainy, lazy Sunday…. Homemade chicken noodle soup!
First, the sanding of the legs (I have a collection from ReStore), the "trim" and the headboard.
Timmy is the BEST at cutting wood—and in super straight
lines. I don’t have the patience and I get very mad at the circular saw. He is
the designated wood-cutter (sounds so manly.. like the Brawny Man)!
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| Yes! Matching work jackets :) We're sooo cool. |
It's always entertaining (see pic below-- Timmy kept dropping one of the table legs!) and a good way to have "family time" - the dogs love to "help".. especially Chaucer Charles.
The painting of the table is my gig (obviously). I let Timmy soft-sand (his favorite) AFTER i paint and initially sand. Team Work.
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| My Little Carpenter :) |
How did Michelangelo do it???
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| The last stage of painting.. the undercoat. |
By 10:30 pm... we had a table and soup was dished up and served!!!!
It only took 4 1/2 fun-filled, paint-covered hours! A perfect little display piece of our total awesomeness (as our housemate, Isiah, would say).
I consider it a perfect piece for Willy and Chaucer to knock over. Whatever you want to call it, it's just adorable. A perfect up-cycled / re-purposed project.
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| Before / After |
... more pics to come!
