Thursday, 15 September 2011

Trash Table - Before & After


On the eve of garbage day, sometimes I take a tour of the neighbourhood looking for useful things.  I call it the 'garbage crawl'.  Lately, I've had a thing for stealing hardware from furniture.  So if you're behind me doing your own trash walk wondering where the other two drawers are for that dresser you were hoping to snatch up... well I probably took them because I forgot my screwdriver that night so I couldn't take just the handles *teehee...sorry!*.

This one day, we (my husband and I) went down sooo many streets and found nothing.  It wasn't until we pulled into our own driveway that I saw this sitting a few doors down among my neighbours trash.  My husband plucked it out of the pile and it came home with us.  It's an old sewing table minus the sewing machine.

A little beaten, but that's ok.  It got an awesome new 'bright' lease on life thanks to Krylon's Sun Yellow spray paint.  I also kept the existing hardware.

And now it's got a new home.  Awe... happy table!

Have trash find transformations of your own?  I would love to see and share it with SaltTree readers!  Send me an email at salttreeblog@hotmail.com with your before and after pics as well as an adequate description of your project and it might just become part of an upcoming B&A post.

PS.  I love my sun yellow table!
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2 comments:

  1. I love your happy table too! What a fun piece of sunshine in your home. :)

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  2. My old sewing machine cabinet is just like this. I have had 5 new machines since this one but this one is still at my Mom's. I may have to go get it now to do something snazzy. Thanks for the great idea.

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