I have this really old dining room table. Half of it was painted red, and the other half was fuzzy from where an arts & crafts project went wrong. I hated this table, but at the same time I'm not going to throw out a perfectly good table and then have to replace it. So I decided to make it a blackboard. I just knew I had hit on something, that my kids were going to be drawing pictures and playing "paper and pencil" games on that table while I cooked dinner and even afterwards. I envisioned uplifting messages being left from one sibling to the next (I should tell you, my kids are ages 20, 18, 16, 11, 10, and 8). Now in reality I was expecting the teenagers to leave rude, snarky comments, to one another.
Do you see what I mean? Horrid, ugly table. Cute kid though.
So it wasn't as easy as I thought. I tried sanding it with sandpaper. My hands were cramped, I thought I was done, and then the boyfriend walked in and said I didn't sand it enough. Luckily he ran out, grabbed a sander that I did not know we had and sanded the table for me. No more fuzz, but still red.
I purchased a quart of Rust-Oleum black blackboard paint for about $15 and a small rolling brush. Three coats of paint later and 72 hours of curing time and we have a fantastic blackboard table. I wish I could say the same for the copper paint edging. It took more than a week to dry, and it needs a third, possibly a fourth coat. But I'm not sure I want to go another week without a dining room table.
Here are some snippets of the fun we have (and the snarky from the teenagers *L*).
Not too bad if I do say so. I have a ton of paint left over, wonder what I will paint next???
