Hello, friends! I'm absolutely tickled pink to be bringing you my most recent thrift store upcycle project today, along with over 30 other fabulous projects created by some equally fabulous blogger friends! I'll be sharing my easy and inexpensive DIY paint-dipped three-legged table project. It's my first time participating in the Thrift Store Decor Upcycle Challenge and I'm eager to begin so let's jump right in, shall we?





The Rules:

• Upcycle an item(s) from a thrift store, resale store, or garage sale into a new piece of decor.
• There's no monthly theme.
• There's no budget to stick to.

Meet the Hosts

Three-legged round decorator tables have been a part of the home decor scene for a long, long time. They're used as end tables, bedside tables and in many other instances as fill-ins where you need just a little sumpin sumpin to fill a corner or otherwise empty space in a room. You might have seen them for sale in places like Wal-Mart or Bed, Bath and Beyond.




I picked this one up at Goodwill for $3.99 a few years ago. I've used it in different rooms in the house, usually covered up with some type of DIY burlap or dropcloth tablecloth. But today I'm happy to report that after using a little bit of paint this table is dressed up enough to work "naked" in any room in the house! I like the fact that they're so lightweight that you can easily move them around the house as your design needs change. (Cause this girl changes her designing mind quite frequently!)


Here it is, upside down on the kitchen table after I taped off the legs with painter's tape. I've always wanted to paint "dip" something, and this worked out to be the perfect piece for it!

Here's what you'll need for this super easy project, not including the table:

1. White Paint (I used Dixie Belle paint in Fluff ~ don't you just love that name?)

2. Gold Paint (any acrylic craft paint will do; you don't need a lot)

3. Tape Measure

4. Painter's Tape

5. Paintbrush


I started off by measuring and marking each leg with a pencil mark where I wanted the gold paint to begin (or the white paint to end, depending on how you look at it!) My line ended up being almost half way up the leg. (The leg was 23" and I marked it off at 10" from the bottom. You can always change the way the paint colors are divided. I basically just eyeballed it to my taste.)



I have found that it is virtually impossible to wrap a single piece of tape around a table leg and expect it to be completely even all the way around. So I rip the tape up into small pieces and attach those pieces together to form a band around the table leg. I've used a similar method in taping off a round mirror.

Then I painted the table top and the top portion of the legs (two coats) with my Dixie Belle paint in "Fluff," followed by painting the lower portion of the legs with gold acrylic craft paint. As stated at the beginning of this post I was given the paint by Dixie Belle to try but the opinions here are all my own. I love Dixie Belle's thick, creamy paint that goes on beautifully and dries really fast! Trust me, that's a true perk for someone as impatient as I am!


And here's a close-up of the paint-dipped goodness! I guess by now you've figured out that the table legs aren't actually "dipped" in paint, they just look that way!





I had fun staging the table with various vignettes. Here I used a gold metal accent piece from Target that I picked up at Goodwill, along with my Target (Goodwill) glass table lamp and vintage Goodwill alarm clock.