Before & After ~ Silver And Sapphire Blue

Before and Afters!  Gotta love em. Take a look at this old drop leaf table.  It had a lot of damage on the top, so I gave it a light sanding and then filled some of the deep gouges with wood filler, then sanded again in those areas.  I didn't make it perfectly smooth though.  I like a little bit of a distressed look underneath my nice new pretty finish. I don't know, I guess it makes me feel like my new finish was always there from the beginning and has been well used and loved... but no chippy paint! ~ HA

Here's what I used, Sapphire Rub n' Buff and Valspar Metallic Silver spray paint. 

And... here's how it turned out! 

I painted the whole table with the silver spray paint first and sealed it with Poly.  You can see how I did that here.  Then, I used a few dabs of the Rub n' Buff and a cloth, for a light glazed look on the base.

On the under side of the table top, I only used the silver spray paint.  I didn't seal that area at all, and rubbed it a lot with a cloth to give it more of an aged look.

Here you can see the base close up.  Kinda has a steely blue look to it.

I like adding just a band of color around the top of things or around the drawers like on the buffet I did. (Click here to see the buffet with Gold Rub n' Buff).  I think it creates  a whole new look for a piece of furniture over and above just a new paint color.

The strip around the top is the Sapphire blue Rub n' Buff applied much thicker.  I do have to say, I had a little bit of trouble with this particular color.  I had to use an artist's brush and basically tap it on (like you would a stencil) tap tap tap. Not that I actually do my stencils that way, but hopefully you know what I mean.

Isn't this vintage clock great!  Love stuff like that, and if you been following this blog for a while, then you probably already know I LOVE anything that's vintage brass.  Look at those little shoes, aren't they the cutest!

So what do you think? 

Smiles!

Sammy,

~Renew Redo~