Tea Cart Project

Lisa Battisti
by Lisa Battisti
I picked this up over a year ago at a yard sale for $20. There is soooooo much hideous paint on it.
Step one- visualize and then let sit in garage for a year.
Stripping the layers of this are just horrible. But the wood is beautiful.
I decided that there was no way I was going to finish this for the 4th of July party, so I worked on my sewing table. With the top of this being so hard to remove paint, I decided to prime the lower part. I will finish sanding and staining top and paint lower area black. More pics to follow when ai start working on it again.
More work today
So its 100 degrees out today and I decide to work on cart. By far the worst project so far. The green paint is drivng me nuts. y'all will probably kill me when I show you what I end up doing.
Continuing to make progress. Primed the lower part and sanded all top.
Hubby took off drop leafs and sanded for me.
I decided to bring it outside and begin painting lower half gloss black. Im not a huge fan of black, but color vs stripping more.......well you know.
Apparently hubs did more sanding of something in garage and my primer had like bumps in it. I sprayed over it anyway (I lack patience). Yep...now I have to resand and repaint 😪


Resanded but it still looked horrible.....


I decided to paint a gloss black on the bottom. Its drying and still looks uneven...but No more attempts for me.


I bought this wooden stencil at Michaels for $1. Thought I would attempt. Didnt come out so good....but this piece has been so difficult for me.
Stencil
The stencil was wood and didnt come out so good. But I left it.
Its pretty big!
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