Materials and the sequence of the job sit together on this page.
Don’t forget to link your projects!!Refinished Side Tables With Marble Tops contributed by Mary @ Apartment TLC
So while Im out and about shopping for our “new”furniture a thought keeps popping in my mind “Side tables are expensive” and me being the low-cost-o that I am, the option of spending more than say $10 a piece…had me looking at my always-empty-but-cute purse and saying to myself “self…you better come up with something”
So skip a few weeks and my parents phone me up to ask if I can take my younger brother to his baseball game and I agreed and then was up at the butt crack of dawn the following day. On the way back from the ball field I see a couple of people dropping things off at the curb and I (being very curious) thought maybe I will find something decent… well I didnt…
I FOUD SOMETHING solid!
On the side of the road were two very nice looking (ok a little beat up) side tables with (get this) Marble TOPS! I kid you not!! so of course I did a wicked U-turn that had my brother claiming that I at last had lost my mind, and I threw them in truck. When I got them home and inspected them I realized that they needed a little TLC (pun intended) so I got out my paint brush and some stain and… the rest is history SEE BELOW!
So above are the original curb-side tables and as mama would say “they aint that purdy”
These are the marble tops, they look clearly yellow and gross next to the chipped and light wood.
So I took some of this good stuff….
Then I painted it on like this, I did not use primer FYI
This is my comparison shot!
And after 2 coats I got THIS!
Aint it purdy?
The marble looks 10x better now and not so yellow and I left it out to dry overnight and it turned out fantastic! So when you see a soild
piece of furniture on the side of the road
or maybe a thrift shop? have a little imagination and you may end
up with some treasure of your very own!
