Go make something!

Before the days of Pinterest (seriously they existed) I had more bookmarks in folders than anyone should ever have on their computer.  One of them included this image:

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that I had found on a blog in 2010.  I fell in love and I had been wanting to replace our freebie table for years.  After reading how they redid I decided I could do it too!  So I scoured Craigslist for the perfect table  I came across a ton of them but I am cheap frugal, and I wanted something low cost if I was going to strip it down anyway.  Last June I finally came across this gem:

You can read about that here:

http://ayanovich.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-newest-project.html

After I refinished the table:

http://ayanovich.blogspot.com/2012/06/dining-table-finally-revealed.html

I started working on finding a hodge-podge of chairs for it.  The hard thing was deciding how I wanted to do it, no matching, 2 sets of two, all the same color, all different?  I finally decided to just see what I could find cheaply.  First I found a set of  four wobbly well loved pressed back chairs on a local for sale board on FB for $15.

http://ayanovich.blogspot.com/2012/09/trash-to-treasure-tuesday.html

Out of the four only one of them was really sturdy so I refinished that one and a highchair that I picked up off the same board from someone else for $10.

And then it took me nine more months to sturdy up a 2nd chair out of that bunch of wobbly ones and also luck upon a garage sale selling two similar-ish press back chairs for $4 each!

http://ayanovich.blogspot.com/2013/06/another-weekend-has-ended.html

So now that I have it all together I thought I would post a final product post.

Here she is:

Not to shabby, and I love it much, much more than anything I ever could have purchased in the store!


Breakdown:

Table (craiglist) $15.00
Sanding pads (hardware store) roughly $15
Teal (Cozumel by Behr) Paint 1Qt - left over from previous project
1qt Walnut stain by minwax - $8.00
2 chairs (FB sale) - $15
1 Highchair (FB sale) - $10
2 chairs garage sale - $8
1 qt  Zinzer 1.2.3. primer - $9.50
1qt Olympic One in Heavy Cream- $12
1 Gallon of  Minwax oil-modified polyurethane in semi-gloss - left over from Addison's bedroom floors

Total Cost: about  $95.00
And I have plenty of leftover stain which I have used on multiple projects more than 1/2 quart of the Cozumel and
 hopefully enough of the Heavy cream for me to redo this craigslist find:

And just for fun, lets remember how pretty this room was just 2 years ago....

Dining room make over

Ugh.  Next, replace gross carpet!