THIS CURBSIDE MAGAZINE TABLE GETS A SWEET SOUTHERN ROOTS & PETER RABBIT EASTER MAKEOVER | YOUTUBE VIDEO!

Hello, beautiful friends and welcome back! Look what I found – a vintage magazine table at the end of someone’s driveway. It really needed some fixing so it’s the perfect restyle for today’s Furniture Fixer Uppers tour. I’m also excited to share SEVEN BRAND NEW Southern Chalk Mineral Paint colors from Dixie Belle!

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Here’s the magazine table I spotted roadside while driving to my sister’s house. I can see why they put it to the curb. It was in pretty rough shape. And yes, we still have some snow on the ground and as you can see it’s not white and fluffy anymore. I can’t wait for the spring weather to melt this all away. Gardening season – here I come!

When I got it home and inspected this piece, I saw even more issues. The top had been repaired with a hot glue gun and was not sticking. There were also chunks of veneer missing.

And the finish on this piece was in really rough shape too.

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WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Vintage Magazine Table  – SALVAGED
White Lightning Cleaner
Sanding Sponge
Bonding Boss Primer
Olive Wood Chalk Mineral Paint
Magnolia Chalk Mineral Paint
Peter Rabbit Decoupage Paper
Water Mister Bottle
Shop Towels
Oval Paint Brush
Artist Brushes
Clear Coat Satin

MAGAZINE TABLE MAKEOVER

Here’s how I upcycled this vintage magazine table using two NEW paint colors and a sweet Peter Rabbit Easter theme.

CLEAN

I removed the top from the base and used a heavy-duty furniture cleaner to clean it from top to bottom. From the dirt and ‘dyed’ water that came off this piece, I knew the existing finish on this table was very prone to bleedthrough. I have a full tutorial on How To Remove Bleed Through here.

REPAIRS + PRIME

After giving it a good cleaning, I flipped it over to remove the dried glue gun glue that was on the legs. I think it’s very nice that someone used what they had to try fixing this old girl! After the dried glue was off, I cleaned up the underneath and bottom of the legs and let everything dry.

Onto Bondo repairs. I mixed up a small batch using about a golfball size of Bondo Putty with a pea-size amount of harder. Then using a plastic putty knife, I filled in all the missing areas of veneer and some chips and scratches.

SANDING

Once the Bondo had dried (15 minutes later) I used an orbital sander with a 120 grit sandpaper attached. This was tough enough to sand the repairs level and get all the scratches and imperfections super smooth. Also, if you’re sanding indoors and don’t want a dusty mess, here’s an inexpensive solution to turn ANY sander into a DUSTLESS Sander for under $10! I used a medium grit flexible sanding sponge to hand-sand the entire base. Sanding by hand isn’t difficult. This entire piece took me all of five (5) minutes to scuff sand. And I really like the sanding pad because it contours all the curves nicely. For the Bondo repairs and the top,

Once everything was sanded, I brought it back into my paint room and removed all the dust with a Tack Cloth. If you don’t have any tack clothes in your work area, I highly recommend them.  I buy them my tack cloths in packs. They last me a year because they are reusable. I fold them over to a ‘fresh’ side and use the same cloth several times before I throw it away. And if you’re like me and don’t like the tacky feel of them, I always leave the plastic wrap on and use gloves.

PRIMING

Before I finished the rest of the repairs – the glue up that was needed to reassemble the table, I went ahead and rolled a coat of Bonding Boss Primer on the entire table. I knew there was going to be bleedthrough issues and I wanted this primer to have ample time to work its magic. It’s recommended to apply a coat. Let it dry for at least 2-3 hours. Apply another coat. Then let it dry for 24 hours for the stain blocker to take effect.

The next day when I came down, I saw bleedthrough beating through the top so I added another coat to be safe.

Now it was time for the final repair, gluing up the top to the base. I flipped the top on a table and added wood glue into the holes. Using a Q-tip I spread the glue all over the hole and inserted the legs. It was a tight squeeze, so I used a mallet to line the legs up and make sure everything was tightly fitted.

PAINTING IN MAGNOLIA

Now for the fun part! Dixie Belle has come out with 7 NEW colors in this gorgeous Southern Roots Collection.

I picked this Magnolia Chalk Mineral Paint for this table. Magnolia is this beautiful spring, delicate, creamy off white. It painted two coats to cover the entire table using my ‘slap it on’ paint technique so I wouldn’t have any brush marks on the spindles.

PETER RABBIT DECOUPAGE

That’s the GREAT thing about curbshopped pieces, I feel free to ‘play’ around with them and I have ZERO guilt if it doesn’t turn out exactly as I envisioned. They are the BEST learning pieces and offer the perfect exercise in creativity and trying new products and techniques. So with Easter just a month away, I decided to have a little fun with this table and use this Peter Rabbit Decoupage Rice Paper I had in my inventory.

Applying this decoupage paper is super easy.

1. Cut the image to size.
2. Apply a coat of Clear Satin Topcoat
3. Lay the design down over the wet topcoat
4. Brush on another coat of topcoat over the decoupage paper
5. Let dry

I have a full detailed tutorial on How To Apply Decoupage Paper here.

Once I had the three designs placed and sealed, I went in with this NEW Olive Wood Chalk Mineral Paint and dabbed around the design to blend it in with paint. Using paint to hide the papers seams works really nicely and I’m sharing how in the Youtube Video tutorial below. 🙂

For the final details, I decided to paint the rim of the table in Olive Wood and also add pinstriping down the front legs in the Olive Wood. Even though I was using an artist brush (which is usually very helpful!) I wan’t able to paint a crisp clean line.  I had to come up with a hack to clean up my mess. A damp shop towel and wiping the oopsies away works really well.  You can see how well this works in the video below.

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