Mid Century Laminate Coffee Table - Barnwood Redo

by Cindy Hagemann

3 Materials

$10

3 Hours

Easy

Bought a mid century modern coffee table at a yard sale. The top was laminate and in bad shape (scratched up). BTW (The photo below is not my actual table - I forgot to take a before photo - but found this one online and it is the same table).

mid century laminate coffee table barnwood redo, painted furniture

So I decided to paint it with chalk paint - but I hated it! Ugh!

So I looked around for some ideas - saw lots of scrap pieces of wood in our garage and got inspired to cover the laminate top with wood. This was wood beadboard - but I used the opposite side.

I measured the top of the table, cut the wood pieces, sanded the edges of the wood, and stained it.

I wanted different colors and tones of wood and used these products to stain the wood and as a top coat to protect it.

I glued the strips of stained wood to the top of the table and then nailed them in to the laminate. Loved the results and what a different look to a dull, boring table!

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Hillela G. on Sep 28, 2016
I love that you didn't give up on perfection- it came out great!

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- Cindy Hagemann on Sep 28, 2016
  I embrace the imperfections on my woodworking pieces!
  
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Cori Widen on Sep 28, 2016
Beautiful - the hard work really paid off here!

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- Cindy Hagemann on Sep 28, 2016
  Thx Cori - it was a fun piece to redo!
  
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