How many of those kitchen tables with the white legs- natural tops have you seen? I have seen them in thrift stores and on the side of the road headed to the landfill. Well the ones on the side of the road I pick up.
They get used for different things around here, shortened legs for coffee tables, restained, repainted.
Sometime ago I was in Goodwill and I saw a still sealed wall clock rub on. It was 3.00, my daughter fell in love with it, so we bought it. Once I got it home it was one of those rub on not the reusable vinyl. It was pretty large, but I did not want to put it directly on the wall so I kept saying I will go get some wood from Lowes and we would out it on that, never happened, it was put away, out of sight out of mind.
One day I was in my shed and I looked over and I had a tabletop to one of those tables just leaning against some other boards and finally the light bulb went off in my head, I could not get it in the house fast enough.
My daughters room decor is done in beachy decor, she loves it, I love it, I tell her I feel like I'm on vacation when I am in her room. She was with her Grandparents for the day and I wanted to surprise her.
I used 2 1x4s that I had on hand to brace across the back, because this top was pretty heavy.
I got out my paints from my stockpile and decided on the bright green, (got to love Lowes oops paint), Idea was to look like a old beach cabana stripes, or beach towel, measured and marked the stripes and then painted the stripes, I was in love with this project! Barely after it dried I sanded over it to let some of the wood show through . Layed out the clock and numbers and used the popsicle stick that came in the package and rub it all on. Used some heavy duty wire on the top brace for hanging.
The space under the clock I left blank in case we find a vinyl saying that we like.
Tabletop wood - free
Oops Paint - free, used what I already had.
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