Distressed Table and Staining a Basket

My six year old and I were spending the day together not long ago.  He was being a great sport and hitting up all the thrift stores with me and not uttering a single complaint!  We found ourselves in a total dive of  a place and were "digging" for goodies when I found this rather ugly basket.  It had a greenish gold colored fabric lining it that was full of dust and "dirt crumbs".  The old guy told me he'd give it to me for fifty cents.  I plopped two quarters down and left the store with it.  I immediately tossed the basket lining in the wash and then got out a dark walnut stain and stained the outside of the basket with a foam brush.

Here's how it looked while it was still wet.

 And now check out how beautiful the stained look is once it dried!

  I'm always looking at lined storage baskets in the store, but never buy them because they're always so expensive. 

I'm rather thrilled with how my 

fifty cent basket turned out!!!

And now you know I don't always paint the underside of my tables!  Secret's out....

Can't remember for sure, but I think I picked this garage sale find up for $3.

I painted it with white homemade chalk paint and distressed all the edges with sand paper.

 And that folks, is yet another peek 

into my newly updated den.  

Maybe someday I'll give you "the full reveal". :)

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