Before I writing up this post I would like to say a special thank you to the random lady I met at the Ponchatoula Antique Trade Days. She shared her ideas with me and now I am happy to share them with you. These were incredibly easy to make and far less than the ones I had been admiring at Williams & Sonoma. Plus they hold my candles received as a Christmas gift PERFECTLY! All in all this project cost me about $25. It took only a few hours and came out better than expected for a first time effort.
Heres what i started with
6 – 4″ Terracotta Saucers. Sourced at local Walmart
3 sofa, chair, & coffee table legs at Lowe’s. My options were limited since they had a limited selection of styles left.
Gorilla Epoxy. Don’t use JBweld, it was a hard lesson learned.
Pliers
Paintbrush/Spraypaint
To start the project I cut the block piece of the long chair leg with my reciprocating saw and quick sanded the cut flat with an orbital sander. Im lazy and didn’t feel like getting out the table saw and all that jazz. This method worked just fine for me using my Porter Cable 20v cordless set.
Next grab your pliers and remove the lag screw in the legs.
Mix up your epoxy and glue onto the saucers. This is where I tried using jb weld and found gorilla epoxy had a better bond and cured faster. Don’t repeat my mistake. But do be sure not to mix too much at one time or it will get gummy on you. Also it gets a little warm once it starts curing which is rather quick. Let the bases set for about 30min so when you flip them upside down and glue the saucer on the top they don’t slide around. Another fun lesson learned doing this.
I let them cure for another 30 min and after my hour of gluing and curing was up, grabbed my paint brush and painted them brown with some acrylic paint I had laying around. But after the first coat I was not satisfied with the color brown I had chosen, my husband said it looked like wet mud and he had a good point. Grabbing my trusty can of Oil Rubbed Bronze Rustoleum, I took to spraying them down. After 1 coat of acrylic paint and 2 coats of spray paint I was satisfied enough to put them on display in our living room I’m redecorating. Not sure if the acrylic paint helped the spray paint adhere to the terracotta or wood better but I feel like it didn’t hurt.
Hope someone else can enjoy the same look of those expensive candlesticks at the store or in a magazine and at fraction of the cost. Plus with a few less curse words than I let out during my “lessons learned.”
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