Wacky Boston-Themed Table!

Yo yo yo.

So I've been a bit under the weather the past few days, so I decided to take it easy this weekend... meaning I'd craft.

Saturday morning I woke up on the ever so comfy couch of my friends' house in Worcester... surprisingly not hungover and even more surprisingly with lots of motivation.  After the trek home, I started Craigslist crawling...

BOOM. What did I find? This weird, but kind of cool table:

How could I pass up this $10 STEAL? It's solid wood and has some pretty badass detailing.

THE PLAN:

I was inspired by this post on Pinterest.  (Shout out to Webster's Chalk and Paint Powder for a SICKKKKK table and the inspiration!) I like to think that I was creative enough to come up with this idea on my own, but I'm not.

Anyways, I went to my usual places: Michaels and Lowe's to hunt down some decoupage stuff, a map, paint, and polyurethane sealer.  DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND A GODDAMN MAP IN THIS COUNTRY?!!!!  Impossible.  I was thinking of doing a cool, antique-y looking map but I couldn't find one. All I could find was a map of Boston, which actually ended up being really cool! Yay Boston!

Side note: The paint man at Lowe's knows me personally. I guess I'm a regular, which isn't so bad.  I am a regular at a pizza place and the liquor store, so I suppose this is a step up.

So I'm back home now, and the table has been cleaned and sanded.  First up: paint the details:

Yup, I used spray paint. Indoors. In the winter.  Probably took a few years off my life. No biggie.

After that dried, it was paint time!!!!

(Insert in-progress paint picture here. Oh wait. Didn't take one. I'm an ass.)

Now on to the map... cutting out the map in a circle was probably the hardest task of them all, sadly.  I had to use a razor blade after the initial cut, but it worked out in the end.  

So decoupage-ing is pretty interesting.  I had never done it before until now.  It's stressful because the paper bubbles and you think it is going to dry that way but it flattens out as it dries.  The only thing that didn't turn out lovely is the folds in the map are very obvious. Oops.

After a coating of polyurethane spray (once again, indoors), it is sealed and ready to go!

This table is so weird, but so cool! And so Boston themed!

What it cost:

Table - $10
Paint - $6
Map - $6
Decoupage stuff - $10
Sealing spray - $6
Paint brushes and rollers: $5

TOTAL: $43

Not too bad! I'm planning on selling this bad boy, so hopefully I can make a little bling bling back :-)

What I learned:

-Maps are hard to find.
-Paint samples are only $3!
-Polyurethane spray smells way worse than spray paint.
-Decoupage-ing isn't so hard.


This was only my Saturday project. Stay tuned for what I did on Sunday!!!!