Spare Tire Ottoman
Yep…every basement man cave needs a place to rest your feet and place your drink. It never needs to be fancy, but it should always involve car parts!
Both the wheel and tire were in rough shape. I was able to sand most of the rust and paint pitting from the wheel, but that tire just would not come clean. It was literally sand blasted from all of those years under the truck.
Use What You Got
For this to be a true recycle project, I did not want to buy any supplies. Nothing. Luckily, I have an ample supply of oil based paints on hand, so I decided to spray paint the tire with a Massey Ferguson Gray tractor paint, and brush the wheel with a custom blue Rustoleum paint I bought for a pedal car project that is waiting for completion.
Special Note About Prep: I really wanted to keep the tire, with its white stripe, intact. I just could not get the tire clean enough. I even tried the pressure wash at the local do-it-yourself car wash. No go…all those years of exposure under the GMC stained the rubber. Good news: all that cleaning prepped the rubber for paint.
For the table “legs,” I used four empty quart-sized paint cans I was getting ready to dispose. They were the right height to make this an ottoman. If I end up keeping them for this project, I may end up painting them to match. Or not. We’ll see.
Here are the before and after pics of this project:
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