If you hop over to the Frugal Girl's post today, you will see the results of an oak table she redid. Recently, she moved into an unfurnished house and needed furniture-some of which she found in an abandoned house that her brother bought, including her table.
When I first saw parts of the table she was working on, I realized that it was the same table we had and that we planned to redo it somehow before moving it back into the kitchen. While our table was in better shape than hers, we had had it for over 30 years and it was well worn. I watched with curiosity to see what she was going to do and liked her idea of painting the base and staining the top. Ward who was going to do much of the work liked that idea too since sanding the curved base enough so it could be stained would was going to be an almost impossible job.
The first thing he did was cut the leaf into 1/3 and 2/3 portions. The table goes into a relatively small space and that gives us more flexibility in fitting the table size to the situation. This required extra hardware and a fair amount of adjustment, but it all works now. Ward's finishing process was much like what the Frugal Girl did, but he did some extra steps when he finished the top. I think this was as much as for a learning experience as anything else, but it produced beautiful results.
As for the colors, the base is one of the colors in our backsplash tile and the top has a walnut stain.
We have moved the table back into the kitchen and as of last weekend, the kitchen was finally done enough that we could start moving back in. More pictures coming soon of the whole room. But for now, here's our new-to-us table.
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| In darker lighting, the base looks dark blue and the top looks browner. |
