An MCM Roadside Rescue by the DH
5 Materials
$20
3 Days
Medium
DH (Darling Hubby) brought home a side of the road freebie last summer.
14 months ago I cleaned and sanded it. A few months ago I primed it. I just got around to painting it. I'll start with the "after" since the "before" was pretty awful.
The after photo is quite different from her humble beginnings. I named this one "Marissa" after my DD (darling daughter).
Let's begin with the "before"...
Pretty awful, right? Scratches, gouges, and just plain ugliness.
Here is my disclaimer regarding the MCM label in case anyone cares:
When researching this table, we could find nothing that placed it into the mid-century or mid-century modern category. Though Mersman tables are plenteous, there aren't any out there like this one that I could find online.
So who knows? Mid-Century…Mid-Century Modern? Vintage? Either way, it's old and not from this era. The store closed down in the mid 90s and produced more than their share of tables for around 100 years. If you know details, please share in the comments. So on with the show…
It Never Fails
Every time I use (affiliate link) Old Fashioned Milk Paint, I say to myself, "Self, I surely do love this stuff."
OFMP supplied the paint for my project so I could show you what it's all about. Not many have heard of milk paint and it's a great alternative to all the other paint on the market today.
It's such a smooth paint and covers well. The colors are vibrant, it doesn't go bad (comes in a powder form that you store in a glass jar); you can mix every color under the rainbow.
It's so natural you feel like you are doing the world a service by using it. I used the safe paint in salmon, which is such a vibrant orange. It's hard not to stand and stare at it after you get it on your piece.
On to the steps - I repaired it, primed with Zinsser 123, painted with OFMP.
Then I painted the details in Rustoleum Metallic, Champagne.
I finished it off with gloss CrystaLac, a gift from the company so I could give it a try and review it. I was very happy with the results. The shine is incredible and it was very easy to use. It also allowed the metallic to stay glitzy, which was my mail goal in using the product.
Look at that shine.
The new knobs from Hobby Lobby needed a bit of lustre, so I used DecorArt's Metallic Lustre to spiff them up a bit. I topcoated with the gloss poly.
To be honest, I'm not really into MCM
MCM to me is just reminiscent of my mom's old furniture. The appeal isn't there to me because I grew up seeing it everywhere – unlike today's younger generation who sees it as retro, and a "cool" change from the oak wood furniture of my generation they saw everywhere.
To be fair, I'm tired of the oak everywhere look too. So I saw this as a welcome change to a very outdated, ugly piece that was a road side piece of junk. The Mersman brand apparently is a big seller. That said, I love this piece. The salmon is so vibrant that it's fun to look at.
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Thanks. I’m really loving the metallics. They are quite popular these days.
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Just plain gorgeous!
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