Coffee and End Table Redo

Mom and I picked up this set of coffee and end tables at a yard sale and there was some things that were missing... there were these decorative wooden bars across the bottom so I just cut them off with a saws-all.  Mom filled it with wood putty and sanded that down along with the rest of the tables.  Then it was time for paint...

First coat was a white primer then she put a yellow color on it.

After the yellow became a little tacky, she hit some areas with a fine grit sand paper and gave it the shabby chic look.  Finally, the sealer was put on it.

This is the BEST sealer out there in my opinion.  When you apply it, you have to make sure that there are no drip marks and then let it dry for at least 24 hours before handling it.  The finished product is simply gorgeous!  The sealer makes the color deeper.  You can put up to 3 coats of this, depending on the wear and tear that you are anticipating for the piece that you are working on.  So, here's the finished tables!

The color is much deeper than we wanted, but in this business, one thing that I have learned is that it doesn't matter what we like, it's what the customer wants.  Needless to say, these gorgeous tables didn't even last a week!  They were GONE FAST!

Cottage Style Hutch Redo

This little hutch has been in and through our entire family.  It started out at my mom's and was there for years until I acquired it.  Then I passed it to my brother and eventually it ended up back at my mom's.  This hutch has done more traveling than Gulliver!  When my mom and I opened our little "Simply MarValUs" booth at The Blue Moon, this was one of the first things that we brought down there.  Well, we have moved to the front of the building from the back, and then over to a window unit since we opened... and this little hutch has been traveling all the way.  My mom and I decided that it needed a facelift so we took it to the house and started working on it.  

Hutch before

So... we loaded it up and took it to the house.  My papa took it apart for us and I started painting it.  The back of it needed a little something more, so we found this pretty burlap material and I put it on the back of the panels with some modge podge.

I watered it down, and I think I watered it down too much and didn't get all the fabric so some of it bubbled up, so make sure when you coat it, you do it well.  I did this on the back of my husband's truck at night... probably shouldn't have done that... but it all worked out.

I let it dry over night and then took it back to mom's and after 2 long and quite irritating hours, we manage to get it back together and more secure than it was before.  :-)  And... here is the finished product!

So much brighter and so much more lovely than before.  We even have a table that matches it and I took the extra material and made some table settings for the table that matches the hutch.

So, 4 coats of white laytex later on each piece, some crafty craftin' on the table settings, we have a beautiful cottage style/farm style hutch and dinette set.