Humble Beginnings Furniture Rehab

 Can all furniture be flipped? That, my friends, is a very good question and this little table will hopefully answer it.  As you can see this is a small, round, laminate side table. Two of the legs were loose but I was able to fix those up easy peasy. However, in doing so I discovered that this little table is MDF. Now, that is not necessarily a bad thing, unless it gets wet but this one is in good condition. It was sold by Target a few years ago and retailed for about $120.00. I found it at Goodwill last week.  After the repair and a good cleaning, I started priming with shellac. Now, since it's a laminate, it won't bleed, but because it's a laminate paint will slide right off, unless you use a bonding primer like shellac. I knew right from the start that I wanted to jazz this table up with a transfer I have in my stash but picking the right color was going to be the hard part. After looking at the  transfer   I thought I wanted to use Dixie Belle's  Soft ...

  This isn't a very good picture but I forgot to take one before I got started on it. A couple of years ago my neighbor gave this table to me when they were packing up to move. I needed something small for this area in my entry for shoes and it has worked well.  Now that we really don't need shoe storage in the entry anymore I decided to spruce it up a bit. I had just received a jar of Dixie Belle's limited release chalk paint in the color Juniper. It's a lovely warm shade of green just perfect for Fall.      So after giving it a good clean with a degreaser, I put on a coat of Zinnser Shellac primer, since the table has a laminate finish, Then I put on another two coats of primer because of the laminate finish. Zinnser Shellac usually grabs hold of any surface but it did not want to stick to this table. It kept pulling away from the edge banding and in hindsight, I should have just removed the edge banding but I didn't think about it at the time so I put three c...