Link Up Paaarty - Working With What You have

In our never ending quest to achieve great decor, even with clients on a very tight budget, we've been doing more and more DIY projects. So today I'm participating in the Emily A. Clark's amazing linkup soiree:
 

Remember this amazing black and gold coffee table revealed here last week here?

 

Well, ideally I wanted to splurge and get a glass table with gold legs for this project. But it was definitely NOT in the budget so this little coffee table rehab is a great example of working with what you have. It used to be a sad, sad, looking table. All dark and brown and clunky looking.

But it was in great shape and just needed a little love and affection. The amazing Shaggy, one of my lead guys on projects, handled this for us. You'll need some basic tools of course.

If you wanna be all fancy then you can use a power sander like this one.

Or if you're afraid that thing will launch you into space, then stay on earth and use the good old fashioned paper sander in a fine or medium grade.

For the gold knobs we used this metallic paint from Valspar via Lowes. Our dear friend Linda at Calling it Home strongly suggests that we all wear some super duper face masks before spray painting. Sadly, I've yet to order one but it's on my list. Pinky swear.

He sanded then rolled on black glossy paint.
 

And just like that a new table was born!  The tray we used here to style the table, also got some gold love action. Can you tell I'm mildly fascinated with gold these days?

 

Let's go forth and see what the other folks on the link up are up to. Happy Hump Day guys. 

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Write by: A-Efendy - Wednesday, March 13, 2013