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The White Living Room Switch Up

February 3, 2017 2 Comments

Hello friends! It’s a snowy Friday here and I couldn’t be more happy. Snow is literally my favourite and I’m lucky because it’s coming down hard. Apparently we’re supposed to get 10-30 cm’s of snow before tomorrow night. I mean.. I understand we were all getting pumped for Spring, but one more snowfall wont hurt anyone. I’m so glad we had so much snow this year, it really filled up my ‘snow hole’.

So I’m super pumped. Many of my readers and Instagram friends have messaged me over the last few months telling me I needed to put my accent chairs beside my TV as before they really just cramped up the room. Well, I finally did it and they look amazing. It was a bit of a undertaking as I had to move all the wall decor over too and sadly put my legs back on my TV as the wall mount is too far over, but I’m in love with how it opens up the space! Our living room is basically 8×8, so it’s a super small space to work with.

White Farmhouse Living Room with Distressed Rustic Coffee Table and Sage Accents www.whitepicketfarmhouse.com

I know it looks a bit cramped around the TV, but I promise you.. it looks so much better and symmetrical!

White Farmhouse Living Room with Distressed Rustic Coffee Table and Sage Accents www.whitepicketfarmhouse.com

White Farmhouse Living Room with Distressed Rustic Coffee Table and Sage Accents www.whitepicketfarmhouse.com

DIY White Farmhouse Living Room, Distressed Rustic Coffee Table, Printers Cabinet and Sage Plants www.whitepicketfarmhouse.com

I laugh because I just realized my daughter tossed her Paw Patrol DVD under the coffee table and I didn’t realize until I posted the photo. This coffee table was originally stained beachwood and I thought it was a bit dark for the space so I dry brushed the entire thing and I’m loving the look so much. It now looks so much lighter and vintage. Don’t you think and yes, that is another piece that Glen built.

DIY White Farmhouse Living Room, Distressed Rustic Coffee Table, Printers Cabinet and Sage Plants www.whitepicketfarmhouse.com

I’m totally loving everything about this room now. It’s bright, cheery and positive. I mean, don’t get me wrong the dark olive green was cozy, but so very dark.

DIY White Farmhouse Living Room, Distressed Rustic Coffee Table, Printers Cabinet and Sage Plants www.whitepicketfarmhouse.com

DIY White Farmhouse Living Room, Distressed Rustic Coffee Table, Printers Cabinet and Sage Plants www.whitepicketfarmhouse.com

Sorry to overload y’all on photos… but I just love to take photos in my space now that it’s so light. It makes everything look so pretty and pop right out. I’m having fun decorating in the space now.

DIY White Farmhouse Living Room, Distressed Rustic Coffee Table, Printers Cabinet and Sage Plants www.whitepicketfarmhouse.com

DIY White Farmhouse Living Room, Distressed Rustic Coffee Table, Printers Cabinet and Sage Plants www.whitepicketfarmhouse.com

What do you think of my little space now?

Also, I wanted to share with y’all a little entrance Interior Design gig I have at the moment for a lovely family. Here is the end result that the client picked

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I need a design program badly, any gooders out there? Basically we are using two of her existing pieces that she already has.

 

Anyways, I’m out to find shopping links, do some schooling, cleaning and make another big ol’ cup of coffee.

Have a wonderful day!

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Filed Under: home decor Tagged With: coffee table, Distressed, DIY, DIY Curtains, Farmhouse, Printers Cabinet, white, WHiteonWhite

DIY | Faux Metal Coffee Table

July 20, 2016 2 Comments

The last couple of weeks and months have been a whirlwind of orders, endless emails, decision making and stress. We finally decided yesterday morning that we will be closing our Rugged Rooster business indefinitely.

If you’re new to our blog, we’ve built rustic furniture from scratch for three years now. We’ve been blessed to have had amazing clients and built over 1700 pieces but there has to come a time in life when you need to say no to stress. We’ve been so incredibly blessed to stay home with our kids, even if it had us working 10 – 14 hour days with the rare day off.

One of our customers asked if we would be putting up tutorials of our pieces, so you can start to build them, and the answer is YES. So I’m here today to post a  how to build a faux metal coffee table.

Since we do not have the resources to make the drawings and edited versions I’ll be sending you over to Ana White. It’s a super easy, straight forward project. The only thing I would recommend, if you would like to do a really good sand on your table top, is leave a slight 1/2″ overhang on all sides. It also makes it way easier to paint the base & stain the top.

Build A Faux Metal Coffee Table In A Few Hours, Save hundreds of dollars and learn this easy DIY method, Little tools needed for this modern coffee table

Build A Faux Metal Coffee Table In A Few Hours, Save hundreds of dollars and learn this easy DIY method, Little tools needed for this modern coffee table

We sanded down the top, and then took a chain to beat it up, see method here. We then took Sunbleached Oak, by Minwax and applied one light coat to the top. You want to let it sink in for about 5 minutes. Wipe off in one continuous direction until no  stain comes off when you wipe. We let our pieces sit for about 3-5 hours ( depending on the humidity in the air ) and then we apply two coats of matte polyurethane.

Build A Faux Metal Coffee Table In A Few Hours, Save hundreds of dollars and learn this easy DIY method, Little tools needed for this modern coffee table

For the base we purchased a fine tip paint brush and a can of matte black paint. You can also spray paint the base as well, but you need to make sure you completely wrap the top before doing so. I love the look of the black paint as it goes on a bit thicker than spray paint so it looks like true metal.

Build A Faux Metal Coffee Table In A Few Hours, Save hundreds of dollars and learn this easy DIY method, Little tools needed for this modern coffee table

You can also plane all your boards down so that it has a more seamless look, but we wanted the top to look a bit more rustic as it has a very modern base.

Head on over to AnaWhite to check out her take on this fun Faux Metal Coffee Table. We made our version before Ana came out with hers ( replicating a Restoration Hardware coffee table ), but since it’s practically the same, you do the same steps.

Ana does an amazing job, as per usual, but she uses skinny 1×3 planks instead of the thicker 2×8 planks that we use. Keep in mind when buying wood from a store, it is always less than the marked dimension. So 2×8’s are 1.5″ x 7 1/4″. So you need to keep that in mind when you are building you base.

I hope you liked this tutorial on how to make a faux metal coffee table. If you have any additional questions, pop a question below and I would love to answer. We’ve built over 30 of these coffee tables for our clients and so we can tell you what will and wont work.

Have an absolutely fantastic week!

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Build This Easy Faux Metal Coffee Table In Under 4 hours & Under 75 Dollars, Modern Rustic Coffee Table, Easy DIY, Ana White DIY.

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Help Us Pick Our Next Coffee Table

April 27, 2016 16 Comments

Good Afternoon lovely friends. I have a big one for you today, I need help picking a coffee table. I mean, I need you to put on your thinking hats and use those fingers to type me a response. After being without a coffee table for a while I just can’t live without one any longer. I need you to help me pick the next build for Glen. He will be building it on the weekend. Are you ready?

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Filed Under: home decor Tagged With: Ana White, coffee table, Design, DIY, Living Room

Build An Easy Pedestal Coffee Table

April 9, 2016 3 Comments

Just jumping on the blog today for a quick sec to post the plans for this ammmmmmazzing pedestal coffee table. Since posting our completed pedestal table last night I’ve received quite a few emails & comments asking for the plans for this coffee table. Although we did make a few customizations to it , okay… a lot- we didn’t make the plans. Continue reading to grab the link! Easy Pedestal Coffee Table, Pedestal Table, Build An Easy Pedestal Table, DIY Pedestal Coffee table, DIY Table

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