End table makeover - Beibei & Lulu's new dining table

I've been wanting to spruce up the living room for a while. Most of our decor & furniture have a neutral tone, and it's been like it for several years. While there's nothing wrong with these neutral colors, I really want to just splash some colors. So, I painted our black end table and gave it a new color! It's a lovely shade of blue. I guess Tiffany blue is probably the closest tone I'd use to describe it.

The end table has been with us since 2016. While it's nothing high-end (if memory stands corrects, I think it's from WalMart), it's sentimental to us (at least to me 👩). It was one of the items W got for his rental townhouse when we lived in different states. This was actually used as a TV stand at the time. After we moved in together into our then-new home in Colorado, this became the dining table for Beibei and Lulu. Over the years, it survived feline 🐱🐈(and canine🐶) scratches and some water damage. 

So last week, I picked up some paint from Home Depot. I got "Adonis" (blue) for "Beibei & Lulu's dining table" and "Honey Tea" (tan/yellow) for the coffee table in our living room (it's still black at the moment).  

I used an old bedsheet as my "ground cover." 😂

The paint was really easy to work with. It also dried very quickly. 

I got the "sample size" just for the table. I thought I would have some leftovers and maybe could use that for another small project. But, nope! I used up the whole jar! I painted 3 coats for the top shelf and 2 coats for the bottom shelf. The legs also got 2 coats.

The last time I painted anything was back when we painted our kitchen cabinets & kitchen walls in our first home. I found painting this table was much easier than painting cabinets & walls 😂 The hardest part in this "end table makeover" project lies among the corners & edges. I was too lazy to use a small brush to paint those edges & hard to reach spots, so my solution was to get extra amount of paint on the roller and rolled with it. The end result isn't perfect. But hey, I like it and it doesn't seem like Beibei & Lulu would care 😎

At some point, I debated whether I should've kept the legs and the sides black. Color block vs one color. 

Well, I accidentally got some paint on one of the legs so that debate ended without much struggle. 

I left it outside overnight to make sure it would dry out completely before I brought it indoors again. All together it took me 2 hours to finish all coats. I waited about 30 minutes between coats. It was a fun little project to do on a typical weekday afternoon!