So bear with me while I tell you some of the things I have been doing. First I had a good friend come and stay a few days and she conned me into going to the Wy State Garden Convention with her here. I have to admit that it was wonderful and I met so many great people for those 3 days. We did some garage sales also while she was here. But this post is about a project the Mr. helped me to complete. I have been packing this old washtub around with me for over 20 years and had been trying to come up with an idea to make a coffee table small enough for my living room without spending a lot of money. Those of you who know me know that I like to reuse and recycle so thanks to Pinterest, I decided to enlist the Mr. to copy an idea I saw. He is so willing to go along with my hairbrained ideas. First we cut a from
piece of plywood for the bottom of the tub. I found fencepost tops at the local hardware for the feet. We went to the local Restore for Humanity and found a table with a top that would work and it was only $9.00.
He took the top of and we discarded the rest of it since it was pretty much destroyed anyway. I then sanded it and gave it several coats of black spray paint as well as the post tops. The screws protruding had to be cut off as they were too long for the wooden bottom piece. I sprayed the bottom wood piece with a silver textured paint that I had on hand. The bottom piece was adhered to the tub with construction adhesive as well as the new feet and each was allowed to dry several hours. So there are several pictures here and after scrolling to the bottom, you will find my two babies modeling the new
coffee table which I simply love.
