THIS CURBSIDE GARDEN TABLE FRAME GETS A BRAND NEW LOOK USING SCRAP WOOD AND PAINT | YOUTUBE VIDEO

Hi creative friends! Welcome back to another Trashy Treasure Tuesday’s feature! When my sister Andrea heard I wanted a trashy project for TTT, she told me where to drive and find this abandoned piece. She said this metal outdoor table frame was sitting on the side of the road for over a week. It was in a weird location too.  Propped up against a do not stop sign very close to one of our busiest intersections in Burlington. 

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I’m looking forward to seeing what our TTT crew have created and I hope you join me on today’s tour as well! I’ve included their before’s and links to the after’s down below.

Here’s the metal table frame I started with. Nothing to look at but let’s see if we can’t give this piece of trash some character!

It was leaning against a No Parking – No Stopping sign but hey, this girl stops and parks for JUNK!

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WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Outdoor Table Frame  – SALVAGED
Rustic Scrap Wood Boards
Ryobi Miter Saw
White Lightning Cleaner
Rustoleum Spray Paint
Spray Can Trigger Handle
Paint Brushes
Umber SILK All-In-One Mineral Paint
Gator Hide Topcoat

DIY SCRAP WOOD TABLE MAKEOVER

Here’s how I salvaged and upcycled this curb-shopped table frame in a DIY Scrap Wood Outdoor Table.

CLEAN & PREP

To start prepping this piece, I took my garden hose and hosed off all the grass and grime. The weather is warming up here in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), so it’s lovely to be working outside again. After it was hosed down, it got another wipe down using an automotive sponge and White Lightning Cleaner and then another rinse. And do you see what I see? The rainbow is the icing on the cake! 🌈

After the piece was clean and all dry, I removed the clear glass table bumpers/spacers with needle-nose pliers. These weren’t needed because I was creating a DIY scrap wood top instead of glass. You’ll see later in the post, how the holes the table bumpers left were super convenient!

SPRAY PAINT TABLE FRAME

Now for the fun part! It was time to change this very generic metal table frame into something rustic and full of character. For the base coat, I used this Rustoleum Black Outdoor Spray Paint that sticks to metal, plastic, wood, and more. I like using this Spray Can Trigger Handle. It clips onto the top of a spray can and turns it into a makeshift spray gun.

Safety first, even though I was spraying outdoors (so nice to hear the birds chirping while working!!) I still wore a mask. This is an oil-based spray paint that sprays super fine so I don’t want to be inhaling any of this. I painted one coat which took less than 10 minutes to do. It wasn’t a perfect full coverage because we are after a rustic look. I left it out in the sun to dry. This Rustoleum Spray Paint takes 20 minutes to dry to the touch, 1 hour to handle, and 24 hours to be fully dry.

SCRAP WOOD FOR THE TOP

I grabbed these VERY rustic scrap wood boards from my inventory. I don’t remember where I got them or from what project they were left over from but they were perfectly imperfect! . I measure the table’s length (34.5″ for this table) and cut each board to size using my Ryobi Miter Saw.

Once I had them cut to size, I played around with the board configuration leaving space/slats in between.

PAINTING IN UMBER

To unify the colors of these rustic wood boards, I applied a 50/50 paint wash. I used 50% water to 50% Umber SILK All-In-One Mineral Paint and painted one coat to all the boards. If you missed last week’s curbside makeover using Umber Paint, you can check it out here.

Using a chip brush, I dry-brushed some Umber paint over the black base to create some faux texture.

OUTDOOR TOPCOAT

To protect the wood from the outdoor elements, I used Gator Hide.  Gator Hide is a water-based poly that is super durable. It’s not just water-resistant – it’s water repellent, which I demonstrated on this blue buffet here. The water just beads up but doesn’t penetrate the wood.

This makes it perfect for high-traffic furniture like dining and kitchen tables, and outdoor furniture. This raw wood with just the paint wash drank up the first layer of topcoat. As you can tell from the pic below, I wasn’t shy about the amount I was using on the first coat. Second and third coats can be put on in lighter layers.

The paint wash and topcoat gave these rustic scrap boards a lot of interest. Here’s a close-up below. Mother nature creates the BEST designs!

The last step was securing the boards to the table frame. This metal table frame already had holes where the glass bumbers/spacers had been so I used these existing holes to screw the wood in place from the underside. Super convenient!

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