Furniture Makeover Series #2 - Simply Vintageous...by Suzan

Hi everyone!!! Simply Vintageous...by Suzan at your service again this week LOL SHE'S BACKKKKKKKKKK!!! Just when you thought it was safe to visit the Inspiration Cafe! Here I am with my second installment - and there's going to be a third one before you get rid of me LMHO!!! This is a long post - beware! A few weeks ago I received an email out of the blue from someone I had bought a piece of furniture from over a year ago - she had a table that she thought I might be interested in.

A little antique drop leaf table? Yes please! Can you remember when those flowers were the " rage " ? not sure what they were painted with but they were really difficult to sand off - and they HAD to be sanded off because they were raised - it was sort of like glue - came off in clumps and little balls all over the place but I finally got them sanded down and began the process of reinventing this little cutie pie. I decided I wanted to do a Herringbone pattern on this and here's how I did it Not sure how great a tutorial this is because I tend to not measure - I kind of eyeball things - sometimes it doesn't work out lol - but most of the time it does............. here we go I first gave it a couple of coats of pink paint - sorry the photo below is after only 1 coat and you can clearly see that it needs another one at this point................. The legs had already been painted white - so just needed one coat on them.  Already it's looking so clean and pretty.

Next I prepped the surface to make a herringbone pattern ( or you can call it Chevron - or you can call it Zig Zag ( remember that skit? well you can call me Ray or you can call me ............... ) First by putting 3 strips of painters tape down the length of the table - again - only eyeballing it!  You may choose to do the wise thing and measure - I kind of like things better when they're not " factory " looking perfect ( plus I'm just a little bit lazy - and far too impatient )

then I started on the angled stripes - the only thing that's important here is that you get the zig zags to " meet " at the peaks..............this is really as easy as it gets.

Once I finished that, I then went back and did another row in between each zig zag

Not necessary - it just depends how far apart you want your pattern to be. I then painted in between the tape with Annie Sloan Pure White.

You can make yourself a cup of tea at this point - NOT WINE - wine and zig zags are dangerous together

Is that a bubble in my tea? My mother swears that means money is coming your way................ A typical conversation with my Mother would go like this Mumsy says - Oh Susie - you're going to get money!!! Susie says  - Mom - you always say that - it's just bubbles in my tea Mumsy says  - well last week I had bubbles in my tea - and guess what - my pension cheque came in the next day  ( this is a TRUE conversation ) Susie says - But it ALWAYS comes in on the first of the month Mumsy says - well I'm just saying - it always happens - that's all Susie says - What are you going to do if you don't get bubbles in your tea next month - will your pension cheque not come? Mumsy says - Don't be ridiculous Susie says - I try not to be Mom, I try not to be........................... Ok you're not here for that lol This is how it looks with all the white finished on the top
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I remove the tape as soon as I'm done - I never wait for the paint to dry because often it will remove some of the base color ( in this case the pink ) if it's been on too long - painters tape should always be removed when your paint is still tacky Should I mail this to you Danni - you could probably make something awesome with it for St Paddy's day!!!

and here's the result

I then decided I should have done the drop leafs too ( originally I was going to stencil something on them ) And here it is all done! I'm going to advertise this as multi functional So first up here it is as a changing table

Baskets or bins - or even a toy box can be stored underneath You can lift up the back drop leaf to keep things handy

and then when a changing table is no longer needed it can become a craft table / desk by lifting out the front drop leaf

opening up both leaves makes it a perfect " games " table as princess grows...........

and then when play time is finished - it quickly can go back to being a bedside table........... all folded up and out of the way

what a difference a little paint makes, right?

I'm thinking this one may sell - because there were bubbles in my TEA after all - and if not, well there goes Mumsy's theory all shot to hell! Thanks again Ladies for having me!!! It really is an honor............. See you all next week