from speckled to spectacular!

Remember my coffee table? The one that looked like this?





After much prep, paint, more prep, more paint, and a little exasperation, it now looks like this:



The prep work took me about 45 minutes since I had to tape, tape, tape all those curves and edges.



I used a redneck ghetto white trash my own special little plastic bag technique to protect the top from any paint that might sneak through.





And then I painted for what felt like forever. The drying process was the most frustrating part because I kept wanting to hurry up and move onto the next step. This caused me many a repaint. Even the "quick drying" polyurethane took a century to dry. Boo.

So once more--before:



After:



I'll be linking up to the DIY Show Off Show & Tell Party and Miss Mustard Seed's Furniture Feature Friday.