When I was at Goodwill a while back I scored this gem for 7.99. It was a little worse for the wear, as it was missing its drawer-see the gaping hole?
Side note: My parents are all-stars for many reasons.
Example 1: See the board sitting on top of the table? They cut that down for me (read: I'm a giant chicken when it comes to power tools).
This is about the point where my documentation of this project fell apart, so please bear with my verbal description of what I did to that
First, I sanded down the surface of the yellow table and the board, as there were a few spots that had paint drips. Once I had it sanded, I wiped it down with a damp rag **This step is so, so important, so that you don't seal in the dust!
I then went to Home Depot and got a few cans of their cheap-o, but still does the trick, flat black spray paint for $0.98 a can. 3 cans later, I had the whole table coated in black. Mom and I then tag teamed the adding of the board... it required more of my favorite things...power tools- thanks, mom :)
After that I went to Anthropologie and picked out a drawer pull, so that I could make the board that we added look like a faux drawer. The pull was the same price as the table, so the whole project cost me around $19, which is a WHOLE lot better than what a similar table would have cost me brand new- plus I was able to personalize it with the adorable pull :)
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