Lets go back to when TJ and I first got hitched. We were married the same year we bought our new house and started our first jobs as teachers therefore we couldn't afford to furnish the house with new furniture from those nice furniture stores.....so we went to ikea and furnished our 2 bedroom ranch for under $1400. Fast forward 7 years later we have bought our first piece of real furniture from Ballard's design. Our dining room table. It so AWESOME! I will post some pics tomorrow of the dining room before and after. I definitely need a new camera because many of the before pictures of what I have done to the house is taken on my phone so the quality isn't up to par but you will get the picture. So this is the recent redo and the last for awhile...maybe. I have done a lot in the past month or so so I will be posting those things in the meantime.
The coffee table before: It actually was a high gloss black table that we bought for $40 off of craigslist. A little high in price but it is a quality piece. After I started to sand it I remembered to take the before pic....Ugh.
I sanded the table to remove some of the black paint then lightly painted it white. After I stained the "paint" with a charcoal stain and got these results.
The look I was going for was the old, beatup, not-so-perfect look....something from an old farmhouse. Its country chic.
We absolutely LOVE it. It fits with my decor and I couldn't be happier.
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