Crafty Carrs: Living Room Redo

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COFFEE TABLE MAKEOVER

$13.50

I got a coffee table for free at a yard sale for sitting around talking to some friends from church in between customers. I did not really know what I wanted to do with it, but for some reason I really liked this table. It was really ugly and kind of wobbly, but I definitely saw some potential there. This is what the table looked like when I got it.

It is typical 80's brown, with gold accents on the table top. The drawer pulls were rusty and old and kind of yucky to touch. There are wheels on the bottom that don't really roll. They just sort of scrape the floor. It does however have a drawer! I don't know why, but this really attracted me to the table.

I knew I was going to do something with it, but I had no idea what. I brought it home about 3 months ago and sat it in my living room and then forgot about it as a project. Then we decided to redo the living room and I decided that this was a fairly simple project that I could bring to my Mom's house while I was doggy sitting for her.

I got out the palm sander and sanded the crap out of it. It was at this point that I realized that the table top was not wood. I have no idea what it is, but I do know for a fact that it is not wood. I sanded the legs and the edges of the top down to the wood and used the palm sander to just rough up this mystery top. Here is a close up of the table top before the sanding.

After the sanding my daughter and I took turns spray painting the table with a really pretty blue color. That is the drawer by her feet. As you can see I am not the most careful painter in the world, but I will paint the sides of the inside of the drawer and line it with scrapbook paper when I get back home.

If you read the post about the piano you know how peeved I was that I had to buy 4 drawer pulls when I only needed 2. Every bit of that disappointment is gone now. These look GREAT on the front of the table and I think it pulls the two pieces together. Here they are before we put them on the drawer front.

So at this point I was done painting and I put the new drawer pulls on. It is really coming together, and I am falling in love fast! It was getting dark by this point so the pictures are not too great, but here is a picture of the painted coffee table with the new pulls. Notice the table top looks kind of splotchy. That is ok. I painted it so that it would not be so dark, but I have different plans for this table top.

So for the top of the table I decided to put some of the same fabric that I have used on several other projects for the living room. I started by laying the fabric over the entire table. Since this fabric is non directional (there is no specific direction for the print) it did not matter how I cut the fabric. If your fabric has more direction you may have to have more and take more care when cutting. I only needed about 1/2 a yard.

I cut a basic rectangle to begin with to make the piece of fabric easier to work with and less bulky. Once I was done with that I used a fabric pencil, a rotary cutter and scissors to cut the fabric to the exact shape of the area I was covering with the fabric. Once I was done cutting the fabric out I used fray check around the edges, but I am not sure this is completely necessary. Old quilting habits die hard!

Once I got the fabric cut to the right size and shape I attached it to the table with a layer of Mod Podge very slowly. I did about 1 to 2 inches at a time. By going so slowly I was able to smooth the fabric completely so there were no wrinkles or air bubbles. I was also able to make sure it fit in the area perfectly. I used calico fabric, which was thin and really easy to work with. I just put the Podge on a paper plate and used it as a glue to put the fabric on the table.

Once I was done I could already see how amazing it was going to look! Right after I got it down I went ahead and applied the first coat of Podge over the top. I let it dry completely and then re-applied 3 times. Here is the completed project.