Faux Marble Coffee Table Redo

Small adorning budgets encourage a number of the most artistic options. Take Michaell Johnson, of The Vivid Plum, who fell completely in love with a designer espresso desk that topped $5,000 that includes lovely, daring black-and-white marble stripes. However dropping 5 grand on a espresso desk simply wasn’t going to occur for Michaell! As an alternative, she turned to an outdated desk she’d gotten from the curb.

“I couldn’t stand this desk,” Michaell says. “However, as newlyweds, we couldn’t afford to place our cash into all new front room furnishings once we moved. So we determined that we’d attempt one thing gutsy with this desk because it was already destined for the trash bin.”

Fortunately, the desk had some bonuses: It was made from wooden, with a large, flat prime—the right place to showcase one thing artistic. Michaell purchased $100 value of supplies, together with each paint and epoxy, to present it a high-end look.

After sanding down the desk and priming the floor, Michaell painted on her white marble. She used white paint, then created three shades of grey “veins” utilizing a small feather whereas the white paint was nonetheless moist. She additionally used a sea sponge to create motion within the white paint.

After that was dry, Micheaell used tape to part off stripes on the espresso desk. Then, she painted the desk black; when that was dry, she splattered white paint over the black. After letting the paint dry and pulling up the tape, she had two units of marbled stripes on her desk prime. Michaell painted the legs on the desk black.

Then, Michaell coated the desk in epoxy, which she says was key to creating it appear like actual marble. “Nobody believes it’s not actual marble once they see it, even once I inform them,” Michaell says. “As soon as I coated the paint in epoxy it actually seemed like a slab of striped marble.”

Making use of epoxy is hard and Michaell obtained her husband’s assist for this half, since they wanted to work quick earlier than the epoxy had time to dry. A hairdryer helped them get bubbles out. For freshmen, Michaell advises a take a look at undertaking utilizing epoxy earlier than taking over the actual factor. “Epoxy may be very sturdy apart from excessive warmth,” Michaell notes. “Don’t put a cup of scorching tea in your desk. It appears to weaken the epoxy and also you’ll get rings. However the cool factor about marble is marble tends to get rings too, so that they nearly make the desk look extra genuine!”

The top result’s lovely—and on funds. “I like that I achieved the look of the designer desk I cherished, however I used to be in a position to put my very own spin on it because it was my very own art work,” Michaell says.

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