Savin' Maven Monday: DIY Coffee Table

Happy Monday loves.

I hope you all have had a great holiday weekend. Mine was full of grilled food, studying, and catching up on some much needed reading-what fun! My girlfriend and I have planned to go thrifting and window shopping at Target today so we shall see how it turned out in a later post.

Today's DIY is a very simple one. I recently moved into a new residence and we all know how that can be. In an effort to start fresh, I trashed most of my old furniture-leaving me with random pieces throughout my house. Since I have lived alone, I have never had a coffee table-how weird is that? So when I found this coffee table at Goodwill for 

**10 bucks**

a couple of weeks ago I knew it had to be mine.

The only issue that I found with the table was that the color didn't exactly match with my dark floors so I decided to pull out a little spray paint.

I like the consistency of the Krylon brand so I purchased two cans of Satin Black (only one shown here) and used Primer that I had leftover from a previous project. I made sure to choose the Satin finish versus the Matte finish because I wanted it to have a little bit of shimmer and shine!

I'm not sure that I need to list the steps for this DIY because it's pretty self-explanatory. 

Prime. Spray. Dry.  

The most important thing to keep in mind when spray painting is to obviously complete the project in a very well ventilated area-particularly outside. Oh, and please wear gloves! Otherwise your hands will look like this:

Here's my table after one coat.

***I allowed at least 24 hours between applying the first and second coats***

After two coats, there's really not much difference...

And that's it!

 I wiped it off a bit and tah-dah! 

Here you have it, set and semi-decorated.

Please keep in mind that I still have more decorations to add so it looks a bit bare at the moment.

Have you spray painted any of your furniture before? 

If so, what was your experience like?

Thanks for reading!

XOXOXOXO

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