My husband and I were in Park City one day. We saw a sign for a garage sale and since we LOVE garage sales, we decided to check it out. As we were browsing the goods, we saw a coffee table. The lady running the sale asked us if we wanted it. We asked her how much it was and then she said the most amazing words, "Oh, we are just trying to get rid of it you can have it for free." You can't beat that.
The trick was fitting it into our small car, but since there was a will, we found a way to bring this home:
My husband and I had not been married that long. And we definitely had no experience redoing furniture. Needless to say, it was a HUGE learning experience. We tried sanding it by hand until after just 20 minutes, we had not even a dent in it!
So here we began again with an electric sander:
(If this isn't a glamor shot, I'm not sure what is :)
Sanding took hours and days and weeks. Remember, we had no prior experience. We just kept sanding until we had this:
We used a very tough sand paper for the majority of it and then used a fine paper for the details. The legs sure gave us a run for our money!
Then we used a deep brown stain to match our bookshelf. We painted 4 coats until we got it the perfect shade.
We jokingly call this our marriage table. Doing this project is like achieving a great marriage: it takes lots and lots of time, patience, and fixes. I say fixes because when we were staining it one evening, a ton of mosquitoes got stuck in the stain. We had to sand them out and do another coat! We are so happy with how it turned out.
Total Cost: $35 for stain and sand paper
The trick was fitting it into our small car, but since there was a will, we found a way to bring this home:
My husband and I had not been married that long. And we definitely had no experience redoing furniture. Needless to say, it was a HUGE learning experience. We tried sanding it by hand until after just 20 minutes, we had not even a dent in it!So here we began again with an electric sander:
(If this isn't a glamor shot, I'm not sure what is :)Sanding took hours and days and weeks. Remember, we had no prior experience. We just kept sanding until we had this:
We used a very tough sand paper for the majority of it and then used a fine paper for the details. The legs sure gave us a run for our money!Then we used a deep brown stain to match our bookshelf. We painted 4 coats until we got it the perfect shade.
We jokingly call this our marriage table. Doing this project is like achieving a great marriage: it takes lots and lots of time, patience, and fixes. I say fixes because when we were staining it one evening, a ton of mosquitoes got stuck in the stain. We had to sand them out and do another coat! We are so happy with how it turned out.Total Cost: $35 for stain and sand paper
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