MY VERY OWN POP OF COLOR

Pin It It's been awhile since I've checked in.  I've been busy working on the floor as well as a few other fun projects.

Now that the floor in the front room is pretty much finished.  Just wrapping up the floor board trim now, I realized that I have really crappy furniture for that room.  Actually I have a very sturdy couch that I love the style of.  It's a sleeper so moving it isn't fun.  It used to be a lovely sage green but here in Colorado, if you move anything by a window, it's going to fade.  And my lovely sage green sofa has a nice faded, pukey color running along the back cushions.  Oh well.  I'm remembering a post I saw somewhere where they painted a chair!  Could be in my future!

But more importantly, I don't have any end tables.  For awhile I used an antique child's desk and chair but I gave that to my grandson for his new big boy room.  Money is tight right now - no running over to Home Goods to see what I might find. Instead, I go somewhere better....the thrift store!!    Where I found this poor little thing.

Boy if that doesn't scream 1980's I don't know what does.  It may as well had shoulder pads on!  It was $12.99 and blue stickers where half price so she was only $6.50!  How could I leave her?  I had no idea what I would do with her once I got her home. 

I knew I needed a pop of color in that front room.  I'm loving all the aqua I see every where.  And the yellow is fantastic.  Maybe tangerine?  I just couldn't figure out what to do.  Those colors just don't fit into my sage green, smokey blue and taupe house.  Then I saw this on Pinterest. 

Lisa over at Before Meets After had a little thrift store find that she painted Avocado. That's right, AVOCADO!  I saw that and knew exactly what I'd be doing to my little table.  Rewind from the 80's back to the 70's!!!  I grew up with Avocado appliances in our house and never in a million years would I have thought I'd have ANYTHING in my house as an adult that was Avocado.  Well, other than the kind you eat.  How much do you love that table????

I went digging through all of my oops paint and found THE PERFECT color!  It's a Valspar La Fonda Olive.  Looked avocado-y enough for me so I went with it.  

I was going to be really lazy and just start painting but I thought better of it and actually sanded her down a little and then gave her a nice primer coat using Gripper.

After painting the primer, I'm thinking that's a pretty nice color by itself.  But it's gray and gray doesn't go.  I always have them tint the primer because I'm lazy like that.  

Originally I thought I'd ditch the glass top - do they even make those anymore? - and cut a piece of plywood to pop in it's place.  Then the extremely lazy butt creative person that I am took control.  I'm just gonna paint that glass.  You can paint laminate, so why not glass?  Of course I would prime it and everything.  Then I remember seeing this on Pinterest.

This was painted by a young lady named Tracy Duffield.  I don't believe she is a blogger - at least I couldn't find a blog.  But she is on Pinterest and she has some pretty amazing stuff on her board named "My Creations".   Can I just say right now "God Bless Pinterest"?  How did we ever function without it!?

I thought this type of design would look so cute on my table top.  But here again, being the lazy butt creative person that I am, I thought it would be a great idea to paint it underneath the glass.  Then I wouldn't have to worry about a kitty claw rearranging the entire piece of art!   I painted the design on the bottom of the glass, using plain old acrylic paint. 

Then I used the same paint that I painted my little table with to paint the entire bottom of the glass so that when I put it in the table, it looked like this.

I cannot tell you how pleased I am with how it turned out.  I figured if I hated it, I could either cut the plywood like originally planned or just scrape all this paint off and go with clear glass.    

I know, I stuck her in the corner.  And nobody puts Baby in the corner! (ha - name that movie!) but for now that's where she'll stay until I finish getting the rest of the room situated.  BTW, this was that same room back in July.....

I never thought I'd live to see this day!

So what do you think????  Love it?  Hate it?  Anybody else out there do something completely lazy outlandish to their furniture????

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