I found the above coffee table at a local flea market for $3.  I knew I wanted to move the current family room coffee table into the craft room as part of my complete craft space reorganization (whole other post, that one is).    The whole thing was the orange color you see on top.  I sanded it and sprayed the whole table with Krylon fusion Cream.  Once that dried, I used home accents black acrylic paint with some glaze and iridescent gold acrylic paint from Golden’s to create a marbled effect, mainly golden with dark undertones.
After that was dry, I arranged little 2.75 inch origami paper squares to my liking, and adhered them with Matte gel Medium.  I then covered the entire top with a layer of the Matte Gel Medium.  After all that dried, I covered the table with 3 layers of Minwax Polycrylic for shine and durability.  I love how it looks tiled.  Easy project, and frugal too.  Bliss.

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Johnnie Lanier

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13 Comments:
March 29, 2011

Love your blog! Following you from blog hop.. I'm Opal from http://www.opalstevens.blogspot.com, hope you can check it out sometime.. 😀

March 30, 2011

Hi there!
Followed you here from FMBT, hope you can return the favor…
Here’s my entry:
http://www.jaz4atot.com/2011/03/fmbt-just-got-back.html

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March 30, 2011

That is a cool table! And $3 ?That is crazy! Love how it turned out

March 30, 2011

Very cool, I love how it turned out!

March 30, 2011

Cute! What a huge difference that made!

March 31, 2011

I love how your table turned out! I love thrifty redos that cost next to nothing. Thanks for stopping by my blog – I'm now following and put your blog hop in my Link Parties page!

-Kelsey 🙂

March 31, 2011

That's cute!! What a cute idea.
Stopping in from a Thursday hop! Believe I'm already a follower.

March 31, 2011

What a cute idea!! Thanks for linking! 🙂

April 2, 2011

Thanks so much for the tutorial! This is such a fun idea for a coffee table! If you get a chance, I'd love for you to link this up to my Not "Baaad" (get it?) blog hop 🙂

April 2, 2011

Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking your RSS feeds also, Thanks.

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April 3, 2011

This is too neat for words! I never would have thought to use origami paper. Those papers are so pretty and this is a great way to get them out for people to look at. Thank you for linking at the beagle.

April 6, 2011

This is a really cute idea. I'd love to do this in my little girls room, her table top is a mess…thanks 🙂

September 30, 2013

This is a topic that is close to my heart…
Many thanks! Exactly where are your contact details though?

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