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Makeover an old pine coffee table

 

Kristin at Ink Blots & Polka Dots shows how she transformed a pine coffee table.

 

 

I love making over an old piece. It gives it new life, new potential and in doing so, can totally change the look of a space.

Take for example this old pine coffee table. When we first bought it, we used it as a coffee table. Really. It held decorating magazines, displayed a nice vignette or two and was a safe place to put your coffee down.

 

 

 

Then kids happened and the coffee table suddenly took on a new, more dented identity.

Put in the playroom, it started sporting some impressive battle scars … none the least of which were the monster truck demolitions that would take place on it – the small HotWheels cars being pummeled with the massive metal Tonka dump truck, you know the one…

 

 

 

Since moving into a "new" home, our old furniture is in the process of finding their way back into their rightful places.

Since I knew that this old coffee table was headed back upstairs to our sunroom, I knew that I needed to give it a fresh start; and what better way that with a coat of fresh white paint.

First I sanded it down, then sprayed on a quick coat of Rust-oleum 2X Espresso on all the edges and ledge trim.

 

After it dried, I applied one coat of Prominent's universal primer.

This is sometimes where I wonder if I am doing the right thing because it looks so awful!

 

After two coats of Prominent's Island white in eggshell, I distressed it with 80-grit sandpaper and this is what I ended up with:

 

 

 

 

 

... a purposefully distressed finish!

 

Now the new coffee table is ready to take pride on place in the new home.