Hey ya'll!
We got bedside tables that have been in the family a loooooong time. Not quite antique yet so I had no problem with the idea of painting them. This is the "after" effect of the antique mirror look.
This is what it looked when I first got it out. Beat up. And changing colors?
The table its self is all wood. Minus that top center piece it's a hard laminate, that as you can tell was changing color due to age. I loved these tables they were my grandma's, then mine, then my moms for the last 6 years and now mine again. Our bed is a white metal frame from ikea. And I just wanted it to match a little better. Before we change the color of our bed. Another story for another date.
Have you ever seen those old pie servers from back in the day? With aluminum tops and cherry/walnut wood surround? Well the aluminum look is what I was after. And I didn't want to spend any cash on it. So I looked through my stash of dun, dun, dun SPRAY PAINT. It's really amazing what you can do with that stuff these days. Anyways I had a past project of making vases look like Mercury glass. OMG if you only knew my love addiction to that kind of stuff! ( and if you want a blog about how to do that message me and I'll post a how to. Its easy I swear!) Where was I? Oh yes. Mercury glass. There's this product called Looking Glass from Krylon spray paint. I searched high and low but did not have any luck finding it. How ever I did find this stuff -->
Rustoleum Mirror Effect
It's not as shiny so it doesn't give the exact look I need for my MG projects. But it does still look awesome in it's own way! And definitely suited my current needs. So I washed the top of the table down. Didn't bother taping anything off. I just went with the flow. In the back of my mind I kept quoting my art teacher from Elementary school. "There are no mistakes in art. If you don't like the way somethings looking change it. It's never ruined."
I kind of loved the way it looked right then. Hi, my name is Janna and I have an addiction to mercury glass...I know.... No need to worry it was just the drying process with the lighter being the parts dried. The thinner coat you use on the top the more of what you'll see under it that was original. I only did one thin coat each with a few good dark spots to give it the look I wanted. You can sort of see it here below.
After it all dried which I have little patients for ( Have I mentioned I'm a redhead, I'm Irish, I'm an Aries, I'm only 4 feet 11 inches tall and a woman? Needless to say I have an attitude. I'm lucky my husband can put up with. It's a running joke that the odds were stacked against him lol) So I waited all offffffff about 30 seconds to bring it in. Then I sat down on my bedroom floor and began to paint. the same favorite color of Annie Sloan Chalk paint. Which I'm now out of! Drats! In the color Old Ocher. It took two coats of chalk paint to get the fullness I wanted out of it color wise. I didn't want to distress the paint on this project....
**I forgot to take an in between picture but here are the drawer pulls before. Just brass ones. That I used the same Mirror effect on.
All I can think about when I actually look at these are the doors in the movie The Labyrinth. You remember the ones she had to take the knocker out of their mouths to ask questions?
Any way here's the finished product of my 4 hour labor. I did two end tables at once. So my husband's is finished to.
The table painted and put together. I really fell love the detail in it. On the sides its got more.
Annnnd I love how it turned out! Exactly the way I had pictured it! Slightly old aluminum. Who knows one day I may add some rust looking spots.... Or not.
From afar. This is my side of the room. My husband and I's taste is pretty similar. But they differ on the fact he has a huge Dragon on his night stand. One day I'm going to change the color of the bed frame. So it's not a prefect match. But you know what? I'm over that look. But I'm proud of the way it looks, it's mine I put the effort into making it mine. And no one else in the world has anything exactly like it. Well for now anyway. I hope you find something soon and make it yours. There are no mistakes.
For now Goodnight to all. I Hope you have a wonderful day/night where ever your from.
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