DIY gold table Part 1

Are y'all as currently OB.SESED with all that glitters as I am?

I want a gold and marble end table for my living room.

Like I really really REALLY want it.

Something like this beaut pictured below.

Only my budget is more like twelve dollars not twelve hundred.

So this is the metal end table currently living in the corner of my living room.

It's not a bad table.

In fact, I really like it.

It's thin little legs and scalloped edges make me swoon.

But that color is creating a visual black whole in the corner.

I've tried lightening it up with accessories but then it's just too colorful for my taste.

Not bad, but a not quite the look I'm going for either.

Enter my new best friends:

Rust-oleum Lacquer in White

And Rust-oleum Metallic in Gold

I knew I could rock this table out.
First I spray painted the legs and scalloped trim gold

Next I taped up the lip of the table with blue painters tape so I could spray paint the top a nice
shellack-y lacquer white.  Notice a little bit of gold overspray on the black surface.  I actually kinda liked that look and almost derailed my original plan.

I know y'all are looking at these inside pictures and thinking, hmmmm.

Don't worry, I'm not a total idiot.  

I did take this metal goddess outside to spray her down with the midas touch. 

Matthew made me swear on this part when he found the table drying in the sunroom. 

I even let her dry overnight like the directions said to do.

And I knew the forecast called for rain so I brought her inside to finish drying overnight.

duh

It never rained.

Doesn't that always happen when you try to be patient?

So I brought her back outside for a heavy dose of white to the top this morning.

She's currently inside drying so you'll have to wait for me to show the next step.

Have y'all been spray painting anything fun lately?