A Parlor Table Lives to Serve Again

by Val Frania {Love My DIY Home}

4 Materials

$20

4 Hours

Medium

I'd Never Noticed Parlor Tables Before

It's a funny thing. You buy a white car and all of a sudden you notice every white car on the road. That's what has happened to me. I saw a really cool table at an estate auction a while ago and won the bid. After I refinished it, all of a sudden I saw parlor tables everywhere – antique stores, estate sales, online…

Today I introduce you to Hannah, named after the man who owned the store that made her – Hannah's Furniture in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She had a tag on her underside.

She was quite beat up with gouges on her table top.

We decided to pretty her up with (afflink) Pure & Original Classico in Black Hills (a deep green) and add a bit of glitz with Champagne Metallic accents.

STEP 1 – Prep by cleaning, sanding and filling in holes, gouges and scratches.

STEP 2 – Prime. I sprayed primer tinted in gray with my HomeRight Finish Max.

STEP 3 – Paint with Black hills Pure and Original Paint (it's a very dark green). The coverage of this paint is amazing. Love, love, love this paint.

STEP 4 – Dry brush the details on the legs and apron with metallic paint.

STEP 5 – Stencil a Moroccan Tile design on the top with Rustoleum's Champagne metallic paint.

STEP 6 – Protect with Modern Masters Dead Flat varnish.

We found this table at a consignment shop that we like to visit every few months.

Find yourself some hot spots if you like to DIY and/or flip furniture.

Find your local estate sales companies and sign up to get notifications via email or FB whenever they have a sale.
Find a couple of good consignment shops that you can frequent. We have one that is about 30 minutes away and the other is in a touristy area a few hours away that we go to once a year and usually come home with half a dozen pieces.

Do you flip for furniture? I do! Here is my first parlor table – I called her "Sophia". I have another waiting in the wings to be revived.

To see more photos go to Love My DIY Home at the link below. You'll also find other tutorials for other projects.

We also have a forum on facebook for those who have questions about their projects and can post their before and afters called Furniture Flipping Forum. You are welcome to join us.