The Nugget: Painted Diamond Table Top (Vintage Revivals)

If you have been wondering if the diamond theme continues throughout the Nugget. Rest assured my friends, right now Diamonds are the only constant thing in my crazy life!!

When we started out, the table in the Nugs was a lovely shade of lime green. We updated it with concrete overlay when we did the countertops. (Tutorial for that here!)

This cute project can be duplicated just about anywhere. Walls, floors, art, pillows, rugs. It is an extremely easy pattern to replicate, you just have to know the secret.

Start by marking the dead center of your diamonds. You can draw on the entire length of your piece (a tabletop in my case) and it will be covered. Then add painters tape (ScotchBlue Delicate was perfect for this project!) that mark the width of your diamonds.

I used a white colored pencil for this project because a normal pencil was the exact color of the concrete overlay.

Next step was deciding the size of the diamonds. I decided that 1” was just about right. So I started by marking every inch up the side of the tape (make sure that you are making parallel marks on each piece of tape, or your diamonds will be a total wonkfest.)

Then you are going to mark every 1” up the center line BUT make sure that it is sitting at the center of your tape marks. So you will start marking it at 1/2” and then every inch after that. This will give you a diamond shape vs.. just a straight line.

Connect every other diamond with painters tape. (you will have to do the painting in 2 rounds to get them all!)

Make sure that your painters tape is sealed so that you don’t get any bleeding and paint the inside of your diamonds!

Once you have full coverage (after a couple of coats) gently peel off your painters tape.

When your paint is nice and dry you can go back and paint the other diamonds.

Follow the same steps of taping, sealing and painting.

I followed up with a light sanding because I had some pretty noticeable paint lines. Then we installed the table.

The Nugs is pretty teensy, but after taking the bunk and upper cabinet out it was feeling mighty spacious…until the table moved back in. It takes up approximately 83% of the floor space. Fun. But it looks adorable and it is more than just a table, it is the bed too, so its sort of important. (Also, we had a little bit of spilled dirt if you couldn’t tell.)