Home Interior: The Painted Dining Room Table Debacle

I receive got a piddling story for y'all today. It's a story that began inwards Feb presently subsequently I began this blog. It's a story of our dining room table, together with a piddling flake more.

It's a story close making the best of what y'all have, fifty-fifty when what y'all receive got is a really crappy table.

Let's start at the beginning. When nosotros initiative of all bought our solid 2 years ago, nosotros had a really small-scale budget to supply it. The budget was thence small-scale that subsequently purchasing 2 couches, the budget turned nonexistent.

We had never had a dining room earlier (having previously rented a teeny condo), together with although our novel ane was close the size of a small-scale sandbox, I yet wanted to decorate it. I turned to Craigslist to larn a dining room table. I constitute an entire fix for $600. It looked similar this:

I loved it at first, but I chop-chop grew to loathe it.

Some people receive got genuinely pinned this motion-picture present when I used it inwards previous posts, but every fourth dimension it's pinned, I cringe. I assure y'all that the motion-picture present does it WAY to a greater extent than jurist than it deserves. It was genuinely ugly inwards person.

The veneer began to tegument off of the top, it scratched easily, it was HUGE, together with having to brand our guests inch unopen to this gigantic tabular array exactly didn't work.

So, subsequently close a twelvemonth of giving it muddy looks every day, I resold it on Craigslist.

I've constitute that when y'all purchase materials secondhand, y'all never experience guilty or bad when y'all realize the purchase was a mistake. You exactly resell it together with movement on.

My conception at this betoken was to honour a smaller circular tabular array somewhere locally together with thence honour chairs I loved online.

That conception didn't operate out thence well.

I constitute this for $30. This is the motion-picture present that was on Craigslist. That is NOT my garage.

My garage is much grosser.

From the motion-picture present it looks all glossy together with inwards corking condition. I knew I would live on ikon it anyways, thence for $30, it passed the test.

Well, when Jesse brought it home, I close fainted. It was the most banged up, beaten upward slice of woods I had e'er seen. But, again, since it was $30, I figured I'd give it a go.

Here's the tabular array top subsequently I spent HOURS patching it:

My initiative of all conception was to stain it amongst a gray woods stain, but the veneer was thence damaged I had to pigment it instead. So, I painted it a beige-gray. I left it this agency for four months.

Be form to me....I never planned on showing y'all these pics, fearing that my table-adventure was a flop.

During these four months of my beige table, nosotros never had chairs. It was but a fourth dimension where nosotros had other priorities than assembling our dining room.
The cats were the exclusively ones who seemed to similar it. They perched on it all 24-hour interval together with looked out the drinking glass doors.

So, since thence I've decided exactly to sell it. It's exactly non the correct table. But, earlier I sell it, I needed to figure out what color would expect amend inwards this space: a rustic, raw woods tabular array or a dark table. I'm yet thence torn, equally both would likely operate well. So, I decided to pigment the $30 tabular array dark thence that I could stare at it for awhile together with recall how a dark tabular array looks inwards our house.

So, I spent a few evenings sitting on the flooring of my sleeping room ikon the tabular array black. You likely mean value I'm crazy, (and I suppose I am) but I similar to pigment article of furniture correct hither piece I lookout adult man TV. This pic was taken piece it was drying...there were close four to a greater extent than dropcloths set downwardly piece I was genuinely painting.

I genuinely debated on whether or non I fifty-fifty wanted to percentage this project, because my dining room is yet SO unfinished.

I brought inwards the work desk chair for the pictures, exactly thence that it didn't expect thence empty. Here's the 'finished' table.