Working on the Night Moves-Stand

So I finished the gray nightstand last week and it's still as beautiful as it was last week when I gave you the project update.

To jog everybody's memory (or to help out those who missed last week's post), here's what the nightstand looked liked when I first got it.*

When I started, I thought I would do something kind of funky with the paint color because this is a trendy sort of piece, so it made sense to try a funky paint scheme. So it looked like this for about a day.

I did a quick run at this paint job (not really worrying about clean edges or covering everything) to see if I liked the scheme. And I did. For about a day. Then I was like "oh no, this is clearly a clown car nightstand". So I went back to the drawing board (or, in real terms, my couch and a pile of paint chips.) I played around the idea of painting it black and distressing it or black with a light blue stencil, but finally settled on the Mined Coal color. My thinking was that because the gray color was clean and modern it would bring this piece into the 21st century rather than just being making an outdated piece funky. 

The finished project has two coats of "chalk paint" or Behr paint and Webster's chalk powder,a coat of polycyrlic and a coat of clear furniture wax. I decided to do two types of top coats because I wanted the durability of a polycrylic coat and the sheen of furniture wax.

Anyway, I'm really excited about how this one turned out. I've had it sitting in my house for the past week and keep looking at it going, "damn, that is a sweet nightstand." For more pictures of it, check out my Etsy listing for it. 

Come back soon for a long post on the vanity, which I just finished this week.  Until then, be good and have fun.

*I feel like I should mention somewhere in this post that when Stan should me this piece and I got all excited about, my mom got really surprised. When we told her that these step-style tables are currently very popular, she was just kept saying "I gave away a ton of those back in the eighties, they're popular?" She still doesn't totally believe me, though the gray paint has helped her not totally hate the piece.