Early last year I found an interesting auction listing from a house in Connecticut that I had bought a few small things from in the past. When the item came up for bidding I managed to snag it for a pittance. Shipping wasn’t steep and so for less than $200 I had very swanky, if scruffy coffee table.
The enamel was shot, but the the base and top were otherwise sound so I got to work.
First I sanded off the old enamel and then using the same paint I had purchased for the little round shelves in the foyer and sprayed a couple coats of paint across the surface.
Here is the listing shot and then some progress shots.
Then I used my trusty Cricut and when my original plan to use some vinyl to create a design proved very very fiddly and annoying, I instead adapted my idea and made a giant stencil. While the stencil was indeed pretty fiddly, it was pretty easy to work with in the end. Don’t worry though, I found another use for the vinyl….a.k.a as wall paper for the knickknack house.
Then I slowly hand painted the negative space of the stencil using the same metallic paint used on the walls of the great room. While the paint was drying I used some Bar Keepers Friend to buff up the base. Once that was done I sealed the table top with a bit of polyurethane. Finally, at the same time I had gone to Tap Plastics to get them to cut the front for the aforementioned knickknack house, they also cut a circle for me to the same dimension as the the coffee table top. I got the idea of a plexi top from the POs actually: they had such things on several of the cabinet tops here and left them when they moved away.
Then I put all the bits together. The result is a gorgeous custom coffee table that fits right in with other furnishings downstairs in the great room.