Industrial Farmhouse Inspired Three Shelf Table
by
Jamie
(IC: blogger)
$10
1 Hour
Easy
A basic looking yard-sale shelf is transformed with chalk paint and sanding into a rustic piece of furniture perfect for your farmhouse decor.
Originally, I thought I'd paint this entire table dark gray. But after I started sanding the finish to rough up the surface, I saw that the wood was actually pretty with the dark stain was removed.
This is what the table looked like before the transformation started. It was a basic out-of-the-box piece of furniture and not a priceless antique, so I had no problem with changing it.
And here is the totally different after. Doesn't the combination of the stained shelves and gray colored spindles look special? For some reason, the two together just reminds me of something with an industrial touch.
After being sanded, the shelves were covered with a thin coat of polyurethane and then a layer of Miss Mustard Seed's antiquing wax. The combination of the two really brought out a beautiful tone to the wood without staining it.
The gray spindles were painted with chalk paint, distressed, and then they were sealed with the same antiquing wax to bring all the tones of the piece together.
And would you agree, that these three shelves were practically made to display some ironstone and boxwood?!?! What do you think of my table?
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Published August 5th, 2015 10:00 AM
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Elaine Robinson on Aug 06, 2015You have good instincts! ...both for enhancing the natural wood and showing it all off with ironstone and boxwood plants. It's an interesting table design in itself, it looks sort of like it's upsidedown and should be standing on those 3 feet. ; )
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