Finally, it was time to fix it. Both for the purpose of my bedroom makeover -- which is going to be a project long in the making, cuz we're poor folk, and I gotta work with what I got -- and just plain making it look better, I busted out the primer and the paint and went to work.
Here, we have the before... and I didn't realize how dirty it was until I was editing these pictures. I washed the whole thing before painting with Oxyclean and water.
Once I got it into my craft room/office, I realized that the stains were even worse than I had thought.
I did like the handle on the front, it would just need a new color once the whole table was repainted. Fortunately, I had my handy-dandy Oil Rubbed Bronze by Krylon handy to paint it later. (It seems to be the color of choice among many craft bloggers.)
So I did a coat of primer and two coats of white paint. The handle got two coats of the ORB as well, and we have the finished product!
I got it in place in my room, and the various decor onto it, and I realized that the lamp definitely needs touching up. I think I'm going to spray the body with the ORB as well, but I'm not really sure what to do with the shade. I like the shade, but it'll definitely need to be white. Perhaps with a red trim, to tie it into the red/white/black theme I have slowly being put together in the room.
While going through the photos in my camera, I did find a few that hinted that my youngest (he's 22 months old) might have gotten his his hands on my camera... perhaps.
I linked up!!