{"id":1045,"date":"2012-12-14T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ridiculousredhead.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2015-02-17T11:56:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:56:25","slug":"the-green-hex-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ridiculousredhead.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"The Green Hex Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we have discussed before, I love to bring home ugly things and prove that they can look nice and be useful again. \u00a0I especially love doing that when TB has asked me why I am putting “that piece of crap” into the car to bring home.<\/p>\n

So case in point, we started with an ugly hexagon table. \u00a0It was a dark wood that instantly reminds one of the 1970s. \u00a0In fact there were a bunch of people who said their parents had the exact table when they were kids. \u00a0On the upside it is a nice substantial piece of furniture with lots of storage behind those doors.<\/p>\n

Here is the before:<\/p>\n

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I know what you’re thinking. \u00a0That is one sexy table.<\/p>\n

It’s so sad looking. \u00a0So what to do with it. \u00a0I admit, this one sat around for awhile since I really didn’t know what to do with it. \u00a0 \u00a0It was suggested I do something with two colors, accenting the drawer fronts. \u00a0That made me think of bad 1980s cabinets and since we were already involved with one bad decade I thought I should stand clear of two bad decades.\u00a0I wasn’t sure what, if anything, I wanted to emphasize.<\/p>\n

Well then, why not just go with green? \u00a0I mean I love anything in green right? \u00a0Then I thought that it might be a lot for someone to have something of this size all in bright green. So I painted the inside white!<\/p>\n

The hardware was in great shape and I just cleaned up with a bit of lemon juice. \u00a0Apparently the hardware is pretty cool once you take it away from the terrible faux wood grain 70s mess. \u00a0It looks great next to the green.<\/p>\n

It is currently waiting for a home as someone’s side table or nightstand in the shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So here you are. \u00a0The After:<\/p>\n

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French Country Cottage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we have discussed before, I love to bring home ugly things and prove that they can look nice and be useful again. \u00a0I especially love doing that when TB has asked me why I am putting “that piece of…
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