Projects – Dining Table

So my first project is the dining table. We purchased it from craigslist for a very reasonable figure, I love the shape and style and the white base, but the black chalk board paint top isn’t my idea of sanitary dining! So with home depot as my new love, I got myself a little sander, the mouse, and went about discovering what lay under the paint.

It took a few hours, several sheets of sand paper and some painful back ache but I hit gold (well for my taste anyhow) underneath is a beautiful wood top, which I believe is oak. Ive now diverted from my original plan of painting the entire table white and decided to go down the farmhouse look route and give it a classic stain. So after some finer sanding this is the first coat of stain…

Removing a nasty layer of chalk paint over white gloss

Applying the first coat of stain