Julie Gumm - Author

Yes, tables can steal your heart

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Not many people would look at this and see its future self…

But it had good lines. And the uglier it is, the cheaper it is, right.

There were about 3 coats of paint on it but after a lot of work it began to look like this…

And now it looks like this…

It’s a good thing that “shabby chic” isn’t really my decor style in the house or I’d totally keep this. But alas, it is for sale.

On to the next project. (If you’re in the market for a black kitchen table with 4 arm chairs (all solid maple), stay tuned.

Table set done…and sold

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After the little blue chalkboard table, I’ve had several projects going in the garage. My parents got my not-so-subtle hint about a paint sprayer for my birthday – via an email w/ a link to the Amazon page 🙂 and so I was waiting on that for a bit. I finished some little things while I waited, but when it came I got to work on these…

  

Those nasty gold seats had 3 layers of fabric on them. A thousand staples later and all four seats were re-upholstered. (Really, redoing chairs like this is SUPER simple – all you need is a staple gun.)

Paint, distressing, wax and the set (which came from two different stores really) became this…

Mark helped me move it into the booth at the antique mall on Sunday afternoon.

By Monday it was gone. I priced it at $199. Probably could have asked $250 but I didn’t want it to linger in the booth too long – got more stuff to get in there soon.

I was really pleased with how it turned out.

The little table that started it all

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So Mark found this little table and called me about it. It’s a Lane table, so really nice solid wood. BUT it had a wood laminate top. Not veneer…LAMINATE. Really! I’m not sure if laminate top tables were in style in the 70’s or something.

The top put me off from having him buy it, but a few days later he was back, and it was half off. So I figured why not. I had no idea what I was going to do with the laminate and I wasn’t sure how paint would do.

Then it hit me…chalkboard paint!

But I wasn’t sure how the chalkboard paint would look with the wood. It still seemed off. That’s when I started looking at Pinterest and blogs on rehabbing furniture and it all began to come together. And now my obsession has started and I have a garage full of furniture projects.

Here she is all done….and already sold to a friend who is going to use it in her new scrapbook room. What fun!