Dining Room Reveal

As many of you know I've been working tirelessly on this stubborn table.  Okay maybe that is exaggerating a bit but I'm a woman, it's what I do.  I picked up a beautiful dining room table a few weeks back on my birthday trip garage sailing.  You can see the table before here.  Go check it out along with the many other treasures we piled up on top of the truck, then come right back to see it finished!  I decided the table would sell better with chairs, ha what a concept right?  So I found a set of four on craigs list for only ten dollars.  I also paired it with a buffet I had waiting to be refinished.  All in all the entire set finally came together and turned out beautifully.

This table took me nearly two weeks to complete.  Of course I was working every single moment of every single day!  Even if I had though it would have taken some serious time because this baby had like 50 coats of poly on it.  I sanded it down twice then let Mr Garden have a shot.  We had to sand so much that we nearly sanded the lip of the table top off!

When it came to painting and staining.  Well the primer dried yellow for some reason which looked like a dog lifted it's leg and urinated on the table legs.  But the paint when on smooth. Whew! 

Then the stain wasn't looking cohesive from one side of the table to the other.  One side took really dark and the other not so much! 

In the end everything leveled out and now matches perfectly. 

And for those of you who love a beautifully staged table... This ones for you!  Because I don't have a lot of staging props due to limited storage space.  So this all came out of my kitchen =)