Well I found this project at a thrift store, and it is this tray. Now I am not into the country look, however I did like the idea of a tray. Recently our tv network started airing the Nate Berkus show, and I really enjoy his show, in fact an upcoming project I am working on is inspired by his show, as well as this one. He talks about using trays alot, and since I don't have a coffee table but a large foot rest for my couch; I thought this would be perfect to be able to set my coffee on in the mornings instead of adding an entire piece of furniture in my tiny little living room.
Here I had already started spraying it... now I now that someone really spent alot of time and talent painting those flowers, but it just didn't fit for me. I used some spray paint I already had in the garage which is a flat black paint. This was an enamel spray paint for something else which is a bit overkill, but I didn't want to go to the store again any flat black paint will do.
Once it is all sprayed and dried, I began with the distressing it with some sandpaper. I am not really sure why but this was a total impromptu project, and it felt like the right direction to go in. This was fairly easy, I didn't use hard pressure when sanding the paint and I used a medium/fine grade. It was fairly easy to do actually, I did do it on the back porch just in case of powder flying.
This is after all of the distressing is finished and the paint is completely dry. I am thinking of adding a swirl to it in the center, but that requires a trip to the store for a thick marker in another color besides black. The total cost of the project was less than $2. Now if I had to by the paint, it would be more like $3 total. Not bad!
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