Two Queen Anne Side Tables

In our last post, we talked about the spray-paint-everything phase we went through when we first started refinishing furniture. We would buy furniture for cheap from garage sales and thrift shops, and then quickly spray paint them before sealing with two or three layers of poly. I picked up two Queen Anne-style side tables from Goodwill that I wanted to refinish for my new (old) apartment living room. Just as with the heirloom dresser, these two tables were sprayed a deep, dark walnut and the hardware was sprayed a metallic silver. We thought that an appropriate follow-up to our last post would be to show you how we transformed these two Queen Annes.

These tables are great because they're nice and deep, providing a lot of surface area for lamps, picture frames, and whatever else you might want to place on them! After using these two tables in my living room, I brought them upstairs and used them as nigh stands for two years. They're definitely great pieces of furniture, but they were definitely ugly! I didn't like the hardware - it looks too formal and feminine, and just OLD. I knew that I wanted to replace the hardware when I refinished these two pieces.

We painted these two tables in Country Chic's "hurricane," a warm, grayish blue. We also painted the insides of the drawers in "vanilla frosting" to cover the spray paint that had made it inside when the tables were first painted. Then we lightly distressed the edges to give the tables some character. After the painting was done, the tables got two coats of polyurethane to seal and protect.

The finished tables! We were pleased with the new look of these pieces, and were happy to given them a modern update. The old, outdated drawer pulls are gone, and the details of the tables are highlighted by the new, fresh paint color. How do you think these two pieces look? They would look great in a living room or bedroom!