Trash to Treasure Tuesday!

Howdy Neighbor!  I haven't shared many fun things with you lately....Perhaps you could take the time to blog about them for me when I finish them?  Kammy?  

A few months ago I picked up 4 pressed back oak dining chairs for $15.  Yep $15, the reason?  Most of them were in craptacular condition.  Missing screw covers/missing spindles/all kinds of wobble.  I used the parts from four of them to make two of them into sturdy use-able chairs.  Met my friend Mr. Boring.

and his pretty back side.

These were going to become part of my "new dining set"  So on went the paint!  And while I was at it I snatched up Addison's $10 boring but nothing really wrong with me highchair and painted that too. (the second one since the first one I painted teal is too tall now for our new table)

don't mind the instagram photo its all I have :)

I picked a creamy white to paint them...

and while the creamy white was very pretty and looked nice in my house....it's just not my style, so I sanded/stained/distressed the heck out of them before adding a coat of polyurethane.  And now?

I love them.

   

The chair you can see across from the highchair big girl chair in this one is the too tall highchair big girl chair that we have to find a new place for.  Goal, to find 2 more mismatched chairs to complete the table!....(and paint the second press back chair I still have only finished one.)

Dining Table Finally Revealed!

I've been dreaming do doing this project since I found this image online over a year ago:

Credit

I just had to find the time, the table and the motivation to get it all done.  Oh and have a kid old enough to entertain herself a little while I worked on it on the days when she was here with me alone...that was a big one. So flash forward just over a year, I found a table that I liked the curves on the legs.  It was listed on craigslist for get this, $20!  Now IMO 20 bucks for a dining table is awesome even if it needs work (seeing how that was my plan anyway), I e-mailed them as fast as I could to see if it was still available, oh and I offered $15.  She said yes and I arranged to pick it up that next night.  The top was in rough shape but it was mostly just where the poly had been worn, no major damage, the bottom & the legs...omg, they were BAD, someone had tried to repaint them with a textured spray paint, without priming them at all.  It was pealing, it was ugly.

I got right to work with my palm sander!  With a little help from Addison

Next was primer time for the table base & legs, then 3 coats of paint.

Used the same color as I used on my dresser I recently redid

While I gave the paint a few days to cure I started on the staining and Polyurethane to the top of the table.  I added a little bit of distressing that I caused by a screwdriver but nothing too drastic.

 After the legs had a few days for the paint to harden I started sanding on them again to do some distressing...eeek so scary after all the painting work!

then on went the stain:

Then once the stain dried I put 2 coats of poly on all the painted pieces.  Then I put it all back together and fell in love!!!

And I kind of wish I would have got out my good camera instead of relying solely on the iPhone for all these pictures but you get the idea.  I love it!  Now I'm just waiting on finding chairs to refinish before make the swap out in my house for my current table and get rid of that!

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