Look at those LEGS!

OK so I lack a good before picture for this beauty but I'm sure you have a great imagination!! so just picture an old rickety table with several NASTY gooped on coats of a strange redish brown stain... OK now sand it a BAZILLION times after stripping it till your fingers fall off  and paint it FOR HOURS ON end!! but not before letting it sit on your porch for  a LONG time, then paint the dang thing black and this is what you get!

Isn't she lovely... now if I could only upgrade my metal folding chairs to be as classy.

The ugly stinky one

You know that dresser on Craig's list with the beer cans on top of it.. that is ugly dingy brown... that you know is probably going to smell so bad that it stenches up your whole house?! Yes THIS was THAT dresser never the less I HAD to have it so dragged my poor little husband all over town to go claim it and its two matching night stands for a mere $75 here it is in all its stinkin glory:

We brought it home where yes it did stink up our apartment.. and I doused it in baking soda. to my surprise the lovely lined drawers  of Yellow flower paper had only been tacked in so 

I pulled them out to revel drawers that had hardly ever been touched. I then sanded and primed the entire dresser.

Next it got a several coats of Mediterranean Blue valspar spray paint.

I then took an ebony colored minwax stain and painted the entire piece and then removed the excess with a damp cloth to accentuate all its lovely curves and crevices.

the hardware was also soaked in vinegar and baking soda then painted black.

COMING SOON