I am really getting into redecorating - thanks to my Pastor's wife. She is SO good at it. She can make anything look good - she just has an eye for it. She helped me refinish my dining table, chairs and china cabinet. It is still in the works. Here is how it started off looking:
Very 70s, very ugly! The guy I bought it from tried to tell me this set was only about 6 years old. Yeah right! Here are some more before pics:
I made this picture extra large so you could see what it really looks like. Its kind of a yellowish color with little brown speckles. Lucky for me its all solid wood! I got the whole set for $300! It included the china cabinet, table with 2 leaves that extends out to about 8 ft! Plus 4 chairs and 2 captain's chairs.
Now, I am still working on it but here are some after pics:
I have a lot of pictures of the chairs because I REALLY like how they turned out. The pictures do not do them justice. We painted everything with a flat white spray paint and then stained on top of that. I then either painted a coat with polyurethane or clear semi-gloss spray paint as a protective layer. Then we recovered the chairs with painters cloth and also made slip covers out of the same fabric.
I am planning on covering the back of the china cabinet with beadboard and getting new hardware that matches better. Last but not least I will sand down and refinish the tops but I want them to be the same color as they are now. I really like the way it looks with the darker tops.
I wanted something simple with the slip covers yet just a touch of class. So, we added a pleat to each corner in the front.
I am painting the inside of the bottom - still needs another coat. But I am using just an offwhite semi-gloss.
So, whaddya think!?
I will post pics of my next project soon. I am REALLY interested to see what you think of it.
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