Hello friends! As promised I am blog swapping with Janet from I Heart My Glue Gun. I'm really excited about all the knowledge she has to share. I hope you enjoy this post and please check out her blog too see my solution to a messy purse!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hey all you An Apple For The Crafter readers!! My name is Janet, and I'm the owner of www.iheartmygluegun.com! I am so honored to be over here at An Apple For The Crafter!
I truly love blogging. I've been blogging since February of this year, and it has just been such a joy! I love getting inspiration from other bloggers out there, and implementing the things I've seen into my home! I'm sure you can relate :)
So since I'm visiting over here, I thought it would only be fitting to bring my best! Today, I'm going to show you my dining room table turned from beastly to beautiful!
As you can see, my dining room table was the cream of the crop in 1978 (like my calendar falling off the wall? That's how we roll). It was given to us by our old neighbors, and they gave me all matching 8 chairs! The table was a huge blessing because at the time we had a 4 person table with one of the chairs only bearing three legs, and we had our youth group coming over once to twice a week so we needed something desperately!
But it's 2011, not 1978. It had burn marks from a hot casserole dish burning through the tablecloth, scratches, cheerios, cup rings...it had definitely seen better days.
So after vigorous sanding, Kilz oil based primer, latex satin black paint on the table and Rustoleum's semi-gloss spray paint on the chairs, and a few coats of Minwax Polycrylic gloss, it was as good as new!
Please excuse the missing chair, she was painted later and was having the 3 day cure I did on the table and chairs.
I love it now! I've been contemplating bringing in different dining room chairs to spice it up a bit, but that costs money and a deep hunt on craigslist. So I'm okay with my extremely low cost renovation to my dining room table for now!
Thanks for having me, and please come over to I HEART My Glue Gun to see the guest posts happening all week!
