Paint Strip Paint

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was stripping a piece of furniture.Yes, that's right stripping not painting.

I thought I could strip an old sofa table back down to the original pine, but it didn't quite work out as I hoped.

Pottery Barn

I was kind of going for this look, but my pine table was still just too orangey and some places became very white and dry from stripping it.

This is mine after stripping it. There was still a lot that needed to come off these legs, but we gave up.

This is an old picture of how it looked when I painted it a bluish gray and put in in the master. Boy, has this room changed. Fun looking back and seeing how much it has changed.

Another old picture shows when it was white. Then furniture got moved around when I got the drop leaf table and this poor table was placed in the garage. Not such a good place for a piece of Stanley furniture.

So after the bare wood thing didn't work I grabbed my can of French Linen Annie Sloan chalk paint and painted it again. Mr. Savvy had helped me strip the table and then came in and saw it painted again and just rolled his eyes. That happens a lot around here.

I waxed the top with dark wax to age it some since it looked way too new. I love how it brought out the wood grain since it was bare wood.

On a whim I painted the knobs in Tricycle Red Miss Mustard Seed Milk paint and Mr. Savvy wasn't so sure about the bright red. I wasn't loving it much either unless I was putting it in a child's room so I toned them down with some black guilder's paste.

The drop leaf table that was on this wall in the great room has been replaced.....

.......by the sofa table. It does give us more walking room in here.

Where did the drop leaf table go, you asked? You will have to wait and see.

Be sure and come back tomorrow for another fabulous guest poster's "favorite room".

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