Country Farmhouse Table Makeover
- By Joan
- December 11, 2019
- 2 Comments
Country Farmhouse Table Makeover
Welcome back. Today I have a country farmhouse table makeover for you. I actually did this makeover several years ago. Somehow the photos got buried and frankly I forgot all about this project until recently. My computer was dying and I was checking out what photos I could salvage before no longer being able to access them and lo and behold, there they were.
This was a table I acquired from my sister in law. She claimed it was originally from California wine country and she had had it forever. After she and my brother got married it was unceremoniously removed to a storage locker. Their tiny house had no room for an extra table and she was having trouble parting with it. So there it sat until the day they decided to clean out the locker.
After a few years of gathering dust, they hauled all their extra stuff to a neighborhood yard sale. My brother had some great stuff. He is known for his love of poking around an antique store or two and he has used a lot of architectural salvage to renovate his home. Between the two of them, they had a nice assortment of antiques, some tin ceiling tiles, dowels, household stuff, of course this table…and what do ya know, it rained. It was the most depressing yard sale I had ever been to. The only people out shopping was the occasional dog walker and the other folks who had set up tables.
He was only selling the table for $20 but of course it didn’t sell, there were no buyers. I told him that I would buy the table if he still had it at the end of the day, which of course he did.
So I did, and here we are.
Table Makeover
Now for the makeover. The top was really in terrible shape, filled with dents and scratches and I’m not really sure what that big white blob was, but nothing a good sanding couldn’t fix.
The top was only held on to the base with a couple nails so it was easy to just remove the entire top before attacking the legs.
Chalk Paint Finish
Paint on a coat of black chalk paint. This is Dixie Belle brand, caviar chalk paint. Let dry. If you like the little bit of aged look, lightly sand the edges of the legs.
Follow the chalk paint with a coat of clear or vintage wax. Buff with fine steel wool.
I finished the top and the drawer with 2 coats of the vintage wax buffed with fine steel wool between coats.
This is inexpensive Waverly vintage wax from Walmart. Paint on, wipe off the excess, let dry, buff with steel wool, repeat.
My story didn’t end quite yet. A couple years after I refinished the table, my brother and his wife (and now they had a daughter too) bought a much bigger house. They now had the room for an extra table. I had been using the table for extra seating at Thanksgiving and Christmas but I thought the table needed to go back to my sister in law, Anne, after all, she did have some history with it. Whether they use it as a dining table, a craft table, a folding table …. it didn’t matter, it’s back where it belongs.
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Cool. I like it.
What a great story and the table looks so much better with the base painted black and the gorgeous patina the wax gave the natural wood. I bet they are thrilled to have the table back.