Hi guys! Traci from Three Dogs at Home is back with another great furniture makeover to share! You know how much I LOVE furniture transformations, I hope you will love this one too!
Since my daughter moved out I have an extra room which I have been using as my project room.
Like many of you, I am usually working on more than one project at a time and my project room is no different but because it is not really a “public area” of the house it keeps ending up on the bottom of the priority list.
Fortunately I have made some progress.
I started with redoing my work table. This is not my table. I lost the pictures of my table when my computer crashed last year due to a virus. I found this identical table for sale online. And it comes with a cute dog. How perfect.
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Unfortunately my table looked a ton worse. Not only was it a 1980’s reject but
it was in really bad shape. The tile was cracked and stained and finish had worn off of the wood edges. But I only paid $32 for it at my favorite Goodwill.
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The first step in this project was to make it match some of the other furniture in the room. I covered the pine with a thick coat of dark gel stain and then I dragged a cheap chip brush over the gel revealing some of the pine to create a faux grain.
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I was thrilled with the results so it was on to the next step.
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The tile top was in horrid shape. Grout was missing, tiles were cracked and it was all stained with what I think was coffee. I tried caulking the grout lines and the cracks but that just made it look worse so I moved onto idea number two.
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I thought about just painting the top with paint designed for tile but I wanted something a little more unique and decided to decoupage something on the table top.
I have this great old dictionary that belonged to my grandma. I love the way the pages have aged and the words listed and the definitions certainly date this dictionary. At first I wasn’t sure that I was okay with tearing pages out of such an old book but some of the pages were already falling out and if I used the pages to redo my table top I would feel more connected to my grandma
every time I used it.
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I got a little carried away with picking which pages I was going to use. I picked pages with words and pictures that had meaning to me. I included pictures of dogs, birds, and furniture. My husband is an avid cyclist so I snuck in a bicycle too. I used pages featuring the words family, love and engineering. Engineering is what pays the bills around here so it is a very important word.
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It took me forever to lay out the pages and decoupage them onto the table. Okay it was not forever but it seemed like it.
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And I finished it off with a coat of varathan to protect it.
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It looks like an entirely different table. Thank goodness because the old table was gross.
What have you decoupaged lately?
Thanks for reading,
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Three Dogs at Home
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Traci, that table turned out fabulous and has given me some great ideas for a few projects of my own! Thanks for agreeing again to Take over My Blog!
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Paula @ Chillin with Quillin
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wow that table turned out really nice, love it !!!!
Paula
AWESOME!!! I love this table and the decoupage idea
This was a great idea and it came out amazing!