See you a Round!

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Recently, my Chicago bud Michelle, and her mom Kay came to spend the night with me in Englewood, Florida. We had two full days of shopping and hunting for hidden gems at several of my favorite stomping grounds. First stop……FUNKY THRIFTY!

As you can see, the girls left with a few items….Michelle fit most of them in to her suitcase but I think you can guess which item didn’t make the trip.

Now…………two things were going to happen……..

1- Mark was going to flip out on me, and tell me I was crazy, and that no way was that hunk of junk going in to the living room.

or……….

He jumped on it! Before I knew it, he had the paint stripped off, and the piece was back in its original glory…..solid brass! But, I don’t much love brass items………too 70’s, and not in a good way.

I headed to Lemon Bay glass company and ordered 3 new pieces of thick tempered glass. There were only 2 pieces with the $5 table and they were chipped. $84. So now my table is in for $89. If I play this right and get Mark to pick up the glass for me, I will still only be in for $5. That’s what I will do!

Time to add a good coat of Primer. If I have learned one thing in my years of re-purposing, it is to PRIME-PRIME-PRIME! Nice to have a carpenter on premise (that would be Mark) for creating props.

Now……….what color should it be? We wanted a dark bronze but our floors are dark wood so that seemed too harsh. I have always been a fan of copper but it looked too orange. Mark found a hammered copper finish paint that was perfect.