Simple Furniture Makeovers That Make A Difference

Simple Furniture Makeovers That Make A Difference.  When I bought the living room coffee table, doing a coffee table makeover was one of the things I wanted to do.  Then you know how it goes, I was so busy trying to pull this house together – (we had only been here about 6 months at the time) – so it wasn’t #1 priority.

Then I guess I got used to it and forgot about my makeover, that is until my 2020 Summer Home Tour.   It’s funny how you guys see everything and don’t miss a trick.  I had one viewer that noticed that the coffee table color and mirror color clashed.  The coffee table color isn’t the brass color that I use in this room, so it really clashed with the mirror.  Time to take care of that.

Outside to the back yard next to the garden where I had a little shade and get to work.  A really light rubbing down with steel wool.

Time to get my paints out.  I want this to be a nice gold kind of tarnished brass finish.   These are the paints I used.  I first prayed it with the Metallic Primer.  Then with the 18K gold.  That didn’t make it as gold as I wanted.  So another coat with the Design Master 24K Pure Gold.  This stuff is amazing.  Perfect color.

Ok, before I show you how it turned out.  Let’s see what it looked like.  You see, my viewer was right, they don’t look good together.  I got so used to the two together that I didn’t even notice anymore.  I bought this coffee table in the first place because it had a bottom shelf and the top had beveled glass.  The really muted gold tone was one I knew I could change – I just didn’t.  haha.

Now it really does look so much better.  Thanks to my viewer for bringing this to my attention.  I love it even more than before.

See how pretty the mirror and the coffee table look together now!!!  It’s amazing that such a simple paint job and a couple of hours took care of this problem.

Here again, is the before.  The original finish really doesn’t look good.  It almost even looks green.  So glad I painted it.

I’m glad you guys notice these things and keep me on my toes.  This makes my room look new again.  I love it.

Simple Furniture Makeovers that make a difference, can add to every space in your home.

Here are some more makeovers that made a huge impact.  You can see all three of these makeovers here.