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Frugal Table Refinishing DIY – Before and After Pictures
By
Danelle Ice - Home Ever After |
December 3rd, 2009 |
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DIY Projects |
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We recently found an old farm style kitchen table in pieces at a local consignment shop. It had a dark brown faded finish and a lot of scratches. It was easy to see its potential as a great kitchen table with a little imagination. All it would need is some sanding, stain, paint, and reassembly. This frugal project cost only a fraction of the same table at retail price.
All in all, we paid $40 for the table and about $30 for the paint and staining supplies. The identical farm table at a local retail store was $200! Plus, now we have enough leftover paint and stain to refinish matching kitchen chairs should we find them at a consignment or thrift store.
Thanks go to Purdy Paintbrushes for providing the paint brush we used for the staining process. My husband, Michael, performed the staining and used two different paint brushes for separate coats to gauge if the quality of the Purdy brush was better. Purdy brushes are generally used by contractors but aren’t as well known by home DIY enthusiasts who do painting home improvement projects.
Michael noticed that when applying the coat of stain with the Purdy brush, the stain went on easily and the brush didn’t lose any bristles. However, when using the store brand of paintbrush, he noticed that it lost a lot of bristles during stain application. The result was that we ended up picking bristles out of the table’s surface – not something you want to do during your table refinishing project.
We decided to go with a burgundy paint for the legs, sides and drawer, and a warm brown stain for the table top. The finished project is a beauty!
Farm Table Before and After Photos
This photo was taken after the sanding was started. Here is the before photo of the kitchen farm table:
Here are the after photos of the kitchen farm table:
We’re excited to move our new-to-us farm style kitchen table into our new house and fashion some matching chairs! It just goes to show that frugal can be fantastic, as long as you use a little imagination and learn the basic skills to make your DIYs easy as pie.
Get more Frugal Friday at Life as Mom. For more before and after projects, visit Making a Happy Home Monday, Metamorphosis Monday and Tackle it Tuesday.
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Great job! I think my favorite workshop projects are the refinishing projects. I just painted up an old school desk to match my niece’s Dora-themed bedroom she’ll be getting for Christmas.
Wow! That is a georgeous table! Dh and his dad redid ours last year. His dad is a woodworker. He iddn’t want anything, but I made him his favorite meal of chicken fried steak w/gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, and then some homemade apple pie for dessert
@Kristin: Those kinds of projects are so fun. Good luck with the new Dora set!
Danelle
@Sherry – thanks! So it was a table you already had? Ours was too small and the new one seats 6, so it’s perfect. It’s nice to have handy people in the family to learn from and do projects with. Cooking payments are the best kind, don’t you think?! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Danelle
Danelle; Your table is just Stunning!!! I am sure that it rivals any of the “new” kitchen tables that you have seen!! I know that it does the ones that I have seen, while out and about….I am real big into Antiques and Uniques. I have four pieces of Furniture that I hope to start working on very soon myself so I know how it is when you are trying to get work done.
It would look Great in my house LOL 
Fork that table on over lady!
@Sunny: You are TOO funny! Actually, we did go to a furniture store to look at couches recently, and noticed that all the tables were way overpriced and looked very plain and boring. I was happy that we put the time and effort into refinishing this one; it’s got personality!
If you get a chance, snap some before and after pics of your furniture pieces and send ‘em on over. I’ll be happy to put them up for all to see
I love a makeover!
Danelle
Wow – What a great Tackle!! I’ll remember that about the Purdy Brushes!
Thank you for sharing your new family heirloom with us bloggy folks!
Great job!!! I have a table that needs something similar … when can I drop it off? LOL! Fantastic job. Thanks for the inspiration!
What a great transformation! I love it!
@Artie: lol I need someone to do my next DIY project!
Danelle