Guest Post: The Golden Sycamore

Hi guys! Today I wanted to show off one of my blogger friends to you. I rarely have guest bloggers
here on my blog, but once in a while it’s nice to show off some of my favorite blogs so that
you can discover some new reads. Today I’m introducing you to Allison from
The Golden Sycamore. This girl has so much talent in making furniture beautiful & an eye
for all things lovely in her home. I seriously am in awe every time I go to her blog.
Enough of my thoughts on Allison, here is a post she wrote for Liz Marie Blog… Enjoy!

First of all I want to give a big thank you to Liz for letting me share my post
with her readers! I’ve been a fan for a while now and am so excited she’s
given me the opportunity to share this project with you all!

As I mentioned a few weeks ago on my blog, I’m really into the industrial look right now.
I seriously can’t get enough of it! While I was playing around online the other day
showing my husband all these cool industrial tables, he got an idea in his head.
Why not build one ourselves? One thing led to another and now we have our own
custom industrial end table for our living room!

Here’s a picture of our inspiration table. We loved it, but at $695,
we thought why not just try to build it ourselves and see what we could come up with.

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We are SO pleased with the result! Although this was no cheap DIY (it cost nearly $300),
it was definitely less expensive than buying the original table,
we got to do a fun project together, and it is custom made just for us!

I cut out numbers on my Silhouette Cameo, traced them,
and then colored them in with metallic craft paint.
When the paint was dry, I distressed them to give a more aged look
to keep in line with the rest of the piece.

We didn’t end up using casters because we couldn’t find any that we loved and we really
liked the look without them once we put it all together.

I’ll go into more detail in my tutorial (coming soon!), but we used
IKEA’s NUMERAR oak butcher block and distressed
galvanized plumbing supplies to get the look of the inspiration table.

Now we have the perfect end table for our living room.
It has special meaning to us and is the perfect size
since we got to build it to our own specifications.

Thanks for taking a peek at my new end table! Like I said,
I’ll be sharing more details on how we built it on my blog soon! Hope you check it out!

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Hope you guys enjoyed this post from Allison! Be sure to check her blog out
& leave her some love. Or head on over to her facebook page {here} & let her know
you are visiting from Liz Marie Blog! I hope you all had a great weekend & I would love
to hear about some of your favorite blogs! So leave your favorite blogs {or your blog}
in the comments below or {here} on the facebook page.