The Bold and the Beautiful...

I found these beauties at a thrift store in Staunton, Virginia for $8.00 each!!  I had no idea what I would do with them, but they were such a great deal that I HAD to have them!  They had really interesting character, and I knew that they would end up looking great.

The top was in pretty bad shape so I sanded for a very long time.  I tried to get it down to the original wood, but gave up pretty quickly (it was at least one hundred degrees and I was sweating all over the end tables!).  The top still felt a little chippy, so I painted a thin layer of Kilz on top to seal it and hide the imperfections.  I didn't Kilz the entire piece because that makes it almost impossible to distress!



I knew that I wanted to do something a little funky with these, but I didn't really know what that would be.  I decided to go for it, and see what happened along the way (I love doing that!).  I had some leftover spray paint from a project long ago, so I decided to use it up.  However, I usually use my paint sprayer because I have more control over the paint and it goes on more consistently.  I spray painted the drawers (thinking that I would just spray the parts that I wanted to distress) but in the end I actually liked what the drawers looked like!

I also spray painted the end tables in all of the areas that I wanted to distress (so the blue would shine through).

For the final coats, I pulled out my handy-dandy paint sprayer.  Since the drawers and distressing were so bold (and lovely!) I decided to go with a soft white.

I sprayed the knobs, distressed the edges, and put a layer of polycrylic on top.  Now they are funky, bold and oh-so-beautiful!