Another Furniture Project

Enjoyed another busy weekend feeding my project obsession.  You see if
I don't complete some sort of project, I feel my weekend was wasted.       

This past weekend I decided to tackle the 3-drawer chest our neighbor gave us.  It had been sitting on the back porch for a while.

First I headed out to Lowes to pickup some stain and new knobs.  I purchased six 1.5 inch round wooden knobs and a quart of Sunbleached Rust-Oleum Wood Stain.

I went with plain wooden knobs since I planned on spray painting them green any way.

I then used my Black & Decker Mouse to sand down the existing finish.  Sadly my Mouse blew up before I could finish forcing me to finish sanding by hand.

This is what the dresser looked like after sanding.

I then applied the stain and topped it off with a coat of polyurethane.  I expected more of a gray like driftwood but ended up with more of a slate blue finish.

 Once I placed the dresser in my foyer though it actually looked good.  It picks up nicely on the color of the slate flooring in there.  The extra storage will be great and it is a handy place to lay down the mail too.

Thrift Finds Transformed

Money has been tight of late so I had taken a break from hitting the yard sales and my favorite thrift and auction locales.  My addiction, however, could not be contained any longer.  Yesterday I headed out to check out some yard sales.  The weather was threatening though so I couldn't find as many as I would have liked.  That eventually led me to the next best thing, my local Salvation Army Thrift Store. 

At the first yard sale I stopped at I found this beautiful round end table for $5.00.  Well actually as you can see it wasn't really beautiful.  The shape and the simple danish modern lines totally caught my eye though.  The fact that it was made of solid wood and was sturdy sealed the deal.

I hunted high and low and found some stain I knew I had.  It was easy enough to find a sock with a hole in it to apply the stain.  On the first pass I forget to wear gloves so an SOS pad was needed to clean my hands when I was done.  As it was starting to get dark I let the table dry overnight.  This morning I sanded it a bit with fine sandpaper and applied a second coat of stain remembering to wear rubber gloves this time.  I gave the table some time to dry then I applied a coat of fast drying polyurethane using a paint sponge.

While I waited for the polyurethane to dry I decided to give the clear glass square-shaped vase I got for .49 cents at the Thrift Store a make-over of its own.

I turned the vase upside down on a newspaper and gave it two coats of Looking Glass Mirror spray paint.  The paint was leftover from a previous project.

If I do say so myself, I now have a stunning mirrored vase and an end table to die for.  Using leftover materials from other projects I only spent $5.49 to complete the two projects.  Note to self:  A hobby that allows me to flex my creative muscle and brings me so much joy can't be bad thing even if it is an addiction.