Sofa Table Makeover

I think it's a sofa table or maybe an aquarium table.  Whatever it is, I've decided to use it in my dining room.  

BEFORE:

AFTER:

I knew right away that I would paint it black, obviously, since I seem to paint everything black.  Once I painted it, I moved it back inside so I could live with it for awhile and see what else it needed.  It's a 90's table and you can totally tell by the rounded edges.  After I dressed it in black, it looked like an 80's table..  gross!  I thought about it and thought about it and decided that I needed to decoupage something on the top.  What though??  I didn't want seams from individual scrapbook papers.  Maybe wrapping paper?  I went to Hobby Lobby to get some French-y accessories to go with a French-y framed print that I was planning to sit on top.  I found some awesome plates (one harlequin!) for 5 buckaroos and then I went back to the wrapping section to see what kind of wrapping papers they had and holy moly....  they had harlequin wrapping paper too!!!

I brought my goodies home and got to work.  First, I measured and cut the sheet of wrapping paper I needed.  Next, I used this method to decoupage.  One thing I learned from trying to do such a large sheet of paper is that I should have asked Charles for help.  I was never able to get the paper centered on the table and I had a couple of rips.  You can't really tell that the paper isn't centered with stuff sitting on it and the rips kind of add to the look I was going for.  This thing also had at least 100 air bubbles!  I'm not kidding.  I ended up taking a pin and poking holes in the black diamonds to release the air. 

Once the paper dried, I put 2 coats of Mod Podge on and then sanded the top a little.  Next, I added some strong instant coffee to a little Polycrylic and brushed that on to age the paper.

My last step was to add a drawer pull on the front to kind of bling it out a little.  I wanted to do three pulls, Charles said it wouldn't look right with three because there aren't any drawers, but he doesn't like the table anyway so I don't really care what he says about it.  :-)    I'll be adding two more pulls this week.

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Frugalicious Friday@ Finding Fabulous  
Feature Yourself Friday @ Fingerprints on the Fridge
Whatever Goes Weds @ Someday Crafts  
Hooking up With HOH @ House of Hepworths
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Style Feature Sat @ Perfectly Imperfect  
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