Beach Inspired Console Table

Beach Inspired Console Table

I hope you had a great weekend! I organized my “workshop” area as working in an apartment can be challenging, and it’s easy to make a mess when you’re in such tight quarters. I’m happy to report that I am now more organized which makes working on projects a lot easier and a lot more fun.

Today I am sharing a beach-inspired console table. I’m going to call it a console table rather than a sofa table simply based on the fact that I now have it against a wall, rather than behind the sofa. Does anyone know the real difference?

Here are some before photos:

Even though I used homemade chalk paint on this project, I did lightly sand the top because of the scratches that were on it. It also needed a little wood filler but since I was all out I just mixed a little bit of the sanding bits with some wood glue and made my own “wood filler”. After that I did a little more sanding.

I knew I wanted to create layers of paint on this piece so I started off with a quick coat of white chalk paint. I didn’t need it to look perfect because the purpose of the white paint was to peek through when I sanded through the layers of paint. The photo below shows one coat of white paint and then the other photo is after one coat of a custom blue paint I mixed.

I ended up painting on 2 layers of the custom blue paint and sanded in between each coat of paint to give it that distressed look. Afterward, it was still a little brighter than I wanted so I added a layer of whitewash paint {white paint mixed with water} and then wiped the piece down and did my last bit of sanding.

Here is my beach-inspired table all finished.  I ended up moving my nautical vignette over to be displayed with the table (check out my post and beach sign tutorial here). I plan on doing a lot more shifting of furniture over the next week or so to bring that summer feel more into our living room.

Please ignore the awful fake flowers, ugh they make me cringe!

I just love the texture that the layers of paint and distressing gives the table. So what do you think?