Makeover – Al Fresco Artists Side Table

Welcome to Friday and welcome to St. George’s Day here in the UK. It’s a beautiful day already in West Sussex and the weekend is set to be warmer than it has been so far this year. My condolences to all the runners taking part in the London Marathon, I know you like a bit of a chill to run in. Just make sure you have plenty of fluids.

The only place that Robert and I will be running to, will be the garden centre for charcoal as we are test driving our brand new grill this weekend. If I could describe the depth of my excitement with regards to this event appropriately I would but I don’t think this is possible online. It would simply involve lots of shaking and then me exhausting myself so I had to go to bed wheezing. Attractive picture.

So, on to today’s makeover………

Last summer I bought this artists table from an antiques dealer in a really lovely town near to me. I got it for a fiver and considered that a great deal as it is so handy to have side tables of all shapes and sizes. And especially handy to have them suitable and pretty enough to use outside. In its original state it wouldn’t have looked too great so I bought it with a makeover in mind.

We gave it three coats of a good quality white undercoat.

We then taped over the slats that made up the top of the table allowing us to fill in the colour. We painted the red slats first.

If you are ever working on a table such as this then don’t get too hung up on the paint job. It can be hard to get very neat lines as you will be working in a small space and you’re not a professional decorator (at least I don’t think you are!!)

Do what you can to keep it neat and forgive yourself the rest.

We allowed the red stripes to dry before moving on to doing the blue ones and then finished off with the white stripes.

The base of the table was also painted with a good quality white top coat. To finish it all off and make it look ‘Summertime Super’

It’s also rather patriotic looking with its red, white and blue stripes. Not strictly correct for St. George’s day but my country has given me sunshine this week so I’m dedicating this table to its generosity.

Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend.

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