Like most do it yourselfers I love to garage sale! On a nice Saturday morning my youngest and I will head out for a few early morning hours spent looking through other peoples things. Trash to Treasure! I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I have picked something up for .50 – 10.00 and refinished and repurposed it. It’s truly an addiction, the cheaper the item and the worse shape it’s in the more excited I get to redo it. Here is a look at my latest find, a plaster monkey table base with a glass top. You see, I am currently still in the process of designing a room makeover for my youngest who just happens to have a thing for monkeys. We took one look at it and instantly knew how GREAT it would be as a bedside table on the side of the bed that did not already have a nightstand. The room is a work in progress and eventually will be painted purple with some form of wall mural (possibly purple on purple zebra stripes) and accents of white and turquoise accessories will fill the space. Em is very eclectic (mom calls it bohemian) and loves a wide array of bright cheery colors as well as lots of textures and patterns. After arriving home with our find it didn’t take long for the fun to begin, I cleaned the plaster monkey base with a disinfectant wipe let it dry while I mixed some paint and got to work. We decided that to make it really pop and stand out in the space in a funky way (because a plaster monkey nightstand doesn’t stand out enough on its own already) that we would paint it turquoise and finish it off with a high gloss. Knowing that the future room will have some zebra print in it we decided to add a touch of that to the top edge of the table and to the very top we added a stencil design that can be seen through the glass top of the table. A few hours later the end result was just as amazing as we had hoped it would be! Take a look for yourself and be sure to leave a comment on this blog to let me know how wild and crazy (I mean wonderful) you think this latest DIY redesign turned out.
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