Secretary & Sewing Table

Here are our latest furniture projects and I am IN LOVE with them! They both turned out so great! This piece, Michael bought at a garage sale last summer for 5 dollars-all in quarters! He brought it home and I thought it was UGLY! Love how it turned out and absolutely loved how easy it was (for me anyway!) Michael did have to pretty much re-build one of the drawers but as far as sanding and painting it couldn't have gone smoother. Love it! We used a paint with primer in it from Lowe's and I believe the color was called song bird blue. We also got the handles from hobby lobby in their 50% off sale- all hardware for about 10 dollars! Then there is this lovely lady that's I've posted about before. We also got her last summer at a garage sale. Michael talked the seller down from $45.00 to $20.00. This was much more of a challenge! This was the first time I experienced the "dreaded red stain" that bled through the paint with every layer. I think I ended up doing about 8 coats of paint on this baby. So it was a pain in my side but turned out beautifully!

On this piece I just used the leftover white paint from the board and batten molding we did a few weeks ago. I also did a few coats with krylon white spray paint to see if that would help cover the red stain, which it did.