CORAL!!!

I love the color coral! 

Actually, anything in or near the orange family makes me happy. Even my bridesmaids dresses were a peachy coral color. Don't laugh... it was the 80's!

So, needless to say, I have been thrilled this summer when every magazine I open up has coral as one of the most popular colors in home decorating.

I've wanted to paint a piece of furniture with coral but couldn't find the perfect piece until I spotted this coffee table at Goodwill...

It has a drawer, but I had already taken it out when I snapped the picture.

I paid $7.87 for the table!

I bought a sample size of Valspar paint at Lowe's in a shade of coral. The sample sizes cost $2.45. I added about 2 tablespoons of calcium carbonate and a few drops of water to the paint to make some chalk paint.

I gave the table a couple of coats of the homemade chalk paint and then hand painted a leaf design on top using acrylic paint in cream and brown.

Then I gave it a coat of dark wax...

Would you be bold enough to put a coral coffee table in your house? Wouldn't it be pretty in a sun room?

 Another look at the "before" & the "after"...

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