PAINTIN' IT BLACK

So in my neverending quest for storage space, I picked up this buffet off craigslist for all of 15 bucks. It was a truly hideous lime green so naturally, on the advice of my personal life coach, Voltaire, I painted it black! It's still waiting for me to put the new silver hardware on it but I'll get right on that as soon as I can find the screws I need.

Ultimately it's going to go into the dining room under the bar but for right now it works OK under the window.

This curio cabinet I actually bought at a garage sale from one of the doctor's I work with for $20. It was that cheesy fake walnut pressboard stuff but I painted it with a really good flat black paint that really sticks to slick surfaces and I spraypainted the brass hardware silver.

I traded my 2 wing chairs (which, I'll remind you I got for free from Hastings when they did the big move and got all new stuff) for this big comfy chair. It's really ugly but I'm going to reupholster both it and the ottoman (formerly covered up in black fabric) with these same Celtic throws. It'll look funky but fun. I have noticed that while my original plan was to have alot of light gray and silvers I'm actually ending up with a lot of black and some red. Oh well, design schemes, especially those done on the cheap like mine, have a tendency to morph.

And now, the ugly coffee table. I got this off craigslist for free, thinking it was all wood and would therefore be easy to sand and paint. Turns out that the top was that nasty laminate stuff in the ever popular fake walnut finish. I actually set it out by the garbabge bin and was just going to forget about it. But then as I was wandering the aisles of Fred Meyer I discovered Krylon spraypaint for plastic! Whoo Hoo! So I sprayed it this nice red but, not being much of a grafitti artist, it didn't come out as even as I would have liked. SO something had to be done.

Viola! "Urban Celtic" coffee table! LOL I sketched up a small drawing based on some corsstitch patterns I had, blew it up at a copy shop, and used transfer paper to get the pattern on the table. Then I went over the lines with a silver paint marker, used a small sponge brush to put in the black, then went over the lines again with a heavy silver paint and sprayed the bejesus out of it with polyurethane. So now it's a truly user friendly coffee table you can set drinks on without coasters and put your feet up on. And Mark even likes it! LOL

So the whole Celtic motif is really creeping in here but I think I like it. What do you guys think?