DIY Kitchen Table

My husband bought our home in 2007 before we ever started dating and when he moved into his home his parents gave him this table and chairs to go in our breakfast area.  The table and chairs is well over 40 years and luckily has great back bones to shabby chic it!!  One of the legs on the table was broke and we had to be careful putting any weight on that side of the table and the chairs had dog scratches on in them and on the sides the dogs had chewed it all up! Needless so say I was ready to put my touch on it to give it life again.  Here are a few pictures of what the set looked like before.

and here are is what the chairs looked like before with all the scratched in the seat.

 

 

Lord HELP us!!  I was so ready to get my hands on this set and get it redone.  My husband was so sweet and helped me on this.  He even had a broken wrist when we did this project and didn't complain at all!  Here is a list of this I use to start this project.

 

Things You Need

1) TSP Cleaner

2) Rubber gloves

3) Steal wool pads

4) Electric sander

5) 120 grit sand paper

6) Water base primer

7) Latex paint- color of your choice

8) Polyurethane

9) Stain- color of your choice

 

How to Redo

1) Put warm water in a bucket and put the TSP cleaner in the water and mix it up.  Use your rubber gloves during this step because the TSP will eat your hands completely up.  It is a harsh chemical.  Using the steal wool pads clean your piece of furniture.  Damp dry with an old towel.

2) Using your electric sander and 120 grit sand paper and the entire piece of furniture.  Once you are finished, use a damp towel and wipe the piece of furniture down to get rid of the dust from sanding.

3) Prime the piece of furniture using water base primer.  Here are a few pics of what our looked like with the primer. 

already looking better with just the primer on.
4)  We took the legs off the table and stained the legs.  We use dark walnut stain.  You have to be very careful with stain.  All we did was use a chip brush and wipe the stain on the table legs and use an old t-shirt to wipe the stain off.  You may want to use your rubber gloves on this step as well because the stain can make your hands very sticky.  Here is a picture of what our table legs looked like.

5) Paint your piece of furniture.  I used two colors. Teal blue for the chairs and bright red for the table.  Once your first coat of paint is dry, I would recommend painting a second coat of paint on because table and chairs get a lot of wear and tear.
6) Once your paint has completely dried, used 120 grit sand paper and your electric sander and start sanding around the corners.  Here is a picture of what mine looked like once I finished sanding.



 7) Polyurethane the entire piece of furniture.  I even used a second coat of poly since it was our table and chairs. 
8) I would let it completely dry for about 24 hrs before placing anything on the top of your table because your might have a ring around where you left it.
Here is our after product!

 





 I loved the way it turned out!!