Game Table Trash to Treasure Furniture Makeover

When Jennifer Rizzo asked me, Jennifer Z from Town and Country Living to do a furniture makeover for my June contributor post, I knew exactly what I was going to up-cycle. Sometimes you just need a little kick in the pants from a friend to tackle a project you should have done over a year ago! So today I’m happy to bring you my game table trash to treasure furniture makeover with chalk paint!

Here she is … my trashy little table turned treasure sitting all pretty on my front porch.

Hubby found this roadside rescue right across the street in our neighbor’s junk pile. It’s too modern for my taste and I cringed when he dragged it home. It might not look that bad from this angle …

… but the top had seen better days. Cigarette burns and water rings had ruined the top. I told hubby I didn’t want it, but it has a special something I’ll share with you in a minute. So it sat around for over a year until Jennifer asked me to do a makeover this month.

 

I turned to Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, my go-to paint for all my furniture re-dos. I brushed on a layer of Louis Blue, let it dry, and then followed with a coat of Old White. I like to layer the colors because they’ll all come through when you start distressing. To see some distressing techniques, see this post.

 

I had planned to decoupage the front of the drawers with decorative scrap paper. But as luck would have it, I didn’t have enough sheets of the paper I wanted to use. So on to plan B because I didn’t feel like putting my make-up on and going to the store!

I decided to stamp the drawer fronts with my script stamp from Hobby Lobby. Then I distressed the entire piece with sandpaper so a little bit of blue and wood would show. Finally, I sealed it with a light coating of clear wax that you simply rub on like waxing a car.

Here’s the reason why I decided to keep this roadside rescue. The drawers aren’t really drawers … they’re games!

And each game has all its pieces! They were stored in baggies inside the drawers. Even though this trash to treasure game table had been sitting out by the road, the insides were in great shape! The games are the only reason why I kept this thing hanging around for all this time. The bottom drawer contains tic-tac-toe.

Now hubby and I can sit out on the porch and play games all summer like Ma and Pa Kettle. Hubby gets an A+ for finding this trash to treasure game table! And special thanks to Jennifer Rizzo for motivating me to finally tackle this project!!

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