My brother and I are moving into a new duplex in August and we've accumulated a lot of stuff to fix up. Today we finally decided to tackle the big projects. My parents gave us an old dining table set of theirs so we decided to stain the table top and repaint all the chairs. The chairs were originally two-toned and they've been scratched up through the years so it was needed anyway. Josh and I went with Almond Cream for the chair color and a dark brown stain for the table top (which of course I can't remember the name of). We also found a beautiful old coffee table that had the top tiles broken out of at Goodwill to revamp for our living room.
Everything before we started working today. Josh had already sanded the table top.
This coffee table was originally $25 but the tile had been broken out so they let us have it for $10. This is by far my favorite piece for the living room, now.
We originally planned to paint this to match the chairs but once Josh started sanding it we realized how amazing it looked just natural. Neither of us have the heart to paint over this- even if it doesn't match as well.
The chairs before. I've never really liked them so I was super excited to paint over this.
The chairs after. We used liquid sand before we painted them so that we didn't have to go through the tedious task of hand sanding them. They weren't easy to paint but look so much better now.
My dad coached us on how to stain wood. We practiced with the back of the table to ensure we didn't mess up the top.
The table after one coat of stain. It absorbed it quickly!
After the second coat of stain. We thought it was dark enough to contrast the chairs with only two coats.
The final products!!!
Josh and I still have a lot to do but we got a huge chunk out of the way today! All of this only took about 5 hours with the two of us. Tomorrow I'm going to seal the table top and make shelves out of old shipping pallets! Needless to say we're going to have a pretty eclectic, bad ass place this year.
I'm so excited!
