The scuffed table (at long last!!!)

Allllllll the way back in the winter of 2023, I saw a hilarious Facebook Marketplace listing. 

Behold, a “scuffed table”:

In no world is this table merely scuffed. Ha. 

I bought it, kind of as a joke, because it was only $5.

I brought it home and sanded it, of course. But the top was still very damaged. 

Luckily, my dad sweetly offered to make a new top for it by gluing together some pieces of wood and then routing the edges. 

And I primed it.

Unfortunately, things really paused there for a while, because interestingly enough, I could not seem to take on other projects while also working my rear off at nursing school.

(As I say, you can only slay at so many things simultaneously. We have to make choices, and I chose nursing school.)

ANYWAY.

When we last left off, I had bought some purple/gray paint to try.

This was kind of a fail, and you can read the story of how I tried it on a rehabbed fruit crate from the abandoned house. 

In conclusion, I decided not to use this for my scuffed table at all. 

So, I went in an entirely different direction and bought a muted green, which was kind of fun because I have never used green paint on furniture before

(Although by now you also know I used this on my trash-picked little table!)

I used the green on everything but the top, which I opted to stain.

The drawer pulls I used are actually a gift from a local reader; she rescued them from a dresser that was out for trash pick-up, and she had some extras. Thank you, Suz!

(The readership here is full of kindred spirits. I would 100% rescue knobs from a trashed dresser. Ha.)

I needed some extra long screws to get these through the drawers, but I could not find any options besides silver. And I thought gold would look better with this color scheme.

So, I used a birthday offer from Ace Hardware to buy a small can of gold spray paint, and I just sprayed the silver screws.

Easy peasy, and they look a little more elevated now. 

So! That is the end of this very long scuffed table saga.

I’m so happy it’s done and in my living room now! And so is Chiquita, apparently.

 

As I said last week about my trash-picked table, I don’t know for sure if I’d pick this up if I had to do it over.

But since I have a blog, sometimes it does make sense to do something that would otherwise be nonsensical, just for the entertainment it provides to everyone here. 😉 

P.S. Remember when I deconstructed trail mix to see if it was cheaper to make it or buy it? That’s another undertaking that only made sense because I am a blogger. Ha.