A Mora Clock and A New Table

I mentioned in my window treatment post that I was building a new side table. Well it's actually just two pieces screwed together, no real building involved ha!

I inherited my mom's French Provincial dining room set. I love it but it had a double pedestal base that felt to bulky for my small dining area, so I removed the pedestals and replaced them with curvy Queen Anne legs that I bought from ebay. Looking at those pedestals gave me an idea, why not make a new side table from the pedestal. Here's what I started with

The pedestal like I said came from mom's table and I ordered the pine top from The Home Depot. My husband screwed the top to the base using wood screws ... then it looked like this,

The base was pretty banged up from being stored in the pit of hell aka my shed. But that worked for me because I like a little distressing . I painted the top and bottom using a sample paint from The Home Depot, it's just a basic white.

I used multiple layers of a 50/50 wash of paint and water on the top and pedestal and rubbed it back after each layer until I got the effect that I wanted.

Then I scuffed it up with a sanding block and putty knife..

I waxed the table with minwax clear wax and sat it in place. It totally breaks the rules for side table height but I like it anyway. The table cost me 23.00 bucks total since I had everything but the top. I think it looks a lot like this one from Pottery Barn. I like the price of mine much better though.

I still haven't installed my new flooring in the living room. I have to add another layer of subflooring to even out the floors between the kitchen, dining room and living room.

Since I only got about five blooms this summer from my hydrangeas I bought some pretty flowers to add to the table.

I also ordered this Mora wall clock from ebay. The price was reasonable and even with shipping it was less than 200.00 bucks

I think it's really pretty although I'm already thinking about giving it a new paint job.Look who decided to photobomb.

I guess he's exhausted from photobombing my shoot and messing up the pillows, wrinkling the slipcovers and lets not forget getting the curtains out of whack hehe.

Thats it for now. Next up I'm giving my Settee a freshen up. thanks for stopping by, I'll be joining these linkups this week,

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