Lately, I've been addicted to Pinterest. And I mean addicted. There are so many pins, and not nearly enough time to tackle them all. Most recently, I decided to tackle the card table make over.
We had a very old, very dated card table that was begging for a new chance.
Please pardon the crappy cellphone pictures. I had intentions of going back outside and taking better ones, but the weather didn't cooperate and then I decided to give up.
With a little bit of spray paint, magic happens:
And then, a staple gun and table cloth transformed the table itself to this...
And, sadly, I forget to take a picture of the finished set, but you'll get the idea.
A few notes:
I looked at many blogs before I discovered a method that worked the best, and I still had to recruit some help from my ever so skilled and handy father.
Taking the table apart and stabling down the new covering was super easy. Just a few screws here and there and done. Easy to take apart and easy to put together. Sounds good to me.
The chairs, however, were another story. Drilling out the rivets was okay, but the tricky part was putting them back together. No matter what size rivet we used, it just wasn't working. Then my dad, being as creative as he is, suggested using screws along with this nifty little thing they use for license plates:
Worked like a charm! And not using rivets means it will be super easy to change the chair covers when I decide I'm tired of them and want something different something spills on them and they need replaced.
These are some of the tutorials I followed for inspiration:
