Fall Project

Here's a project we worked on and finished while waiting for the produce to ripen in the garden last Fall.
Lulu and I like to refinish furniture. Occasionally we find items that are well built or worth salvaging and we fix them up. This is a sideboard we found at the Goodwill for like 4 dollars. Notice the crooked drawers. The slides were so worn that the drawers hung like loose teeth.
I was able to save the awesome funkadelic orange and lime green patterned, fake velvet fuzz accented, 70's era contact paper drawer liner in its original splendor. Sadly, I was unable to find a roll of matching contact paper to line the other drawer.

The top looked like wood grain Formica, but turned out to be simulated wood grain contact paper, on top of bright orange contact paper, on top of heavily scratched wood grain Formica. It was a regular archaeological dig to get down to bare wood. Apparently contact paper played a prominent role in the decorating style of its previous owners.

This flashy pink sideboard is the refurbished and rejuvenated version of the crumbling Goodwill purchase. As you can see from the original pictures, it was falling apart. Now, it's one of the most unique items of furniture in our house. The top surface is treated with a type of paint that turns it into a chalk board.
Incidentally, that candelabra was initially black wrought iron. It's interesting what a little Robin's Egg Blue spray paint can do for you...