Claw Foot Table

Some pieces just don't inspire me.  Like this table...

I couldn't see what color it should be, it needed some repair work that I didn't feel like doing, and I just didn't like it.

My husband was doing some garage organization and I asked him if he could give me a few shelves in a cabinet that my dad gave us for my paints.  He was able to give me the whole thing!

It makes me so happy!  I was able to organize it with all my supplies.  I used to have all this in my craft room in a much smaller shelf unit and would have to keep going back and forth between it and the garage to get stuff.  I would also have to keep taking everything off the shelves to find what I needed, so this stuff was mostly on my work table in a big mess.

Now that all my supplies were at my fingertips, I got inspired.  I wanted the table to be a light color so I could glaze it to bring out all the details on the trim, but I was worried about bleed through.

I went with an oops paint that has amazing coverage (that I happen to have a quart of) in a very light blue/grey color that I used on the first two tables from my assembly line of tables.  I was confident it would work and not have to deal with bleed through.

It SO worked for this table!  I painted it with two coats of the color in DIY chalk paint and then distressed the heck out of it. Not that much came off, but there was a lot of detail to the table just from being so old.

I glazed it Martha Stewart Metallic Glaze in Black Coffee.  I globbed it on with cheese cloth one area at a time and then went back with a clean cloth to wipe off the excess.

Look at all the places the glaze was able to get into and highlight!  The trim came out great like I thought it would, but I really love how the legs and their deep grain took the glaze.  The table top and shelf also got so much since they were scratched and marked up.  

Now I like this table...A LOT!

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