Refinished Side Tables With Marble Tops

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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 cheap-o that I am, the idea 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 AWESOME! 

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 SUPER 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!