Furniture Project: Mahogany Deco Dining Table

Isn't this a beautiful old table?

Would you believe we picked it up at a yard sale for a song?

This was the condition of the top, but we knew it was solid wood.

We used Howard Feed-N-Wax to restore the finish.
Of course, it took a little sanding too, but not that much, believe it or not.

It turned out to be solid mahogany, made in the 1920s.

The lines are absolutely beautiful!

A perfect example of Art Deco design.

And there was a surprise inside!

It's called a "butterfly wing" leaf.

It expands the table from 4' to 5' and folds away inside when it's not needed.


 I just love it when you run across something so special when you least expect it!

A Happy Coincidence and a Dining Table

 Serendipity: A happy coincidence; making desirable discoveries by accident; good fortune, luck.

That's what sometimes happens when you are yard saling and thrifting for furniture to remake and sell to others. You stumble across something that is perfect for you.

For several years I have had this dining table:

I never really liked it, but, like so many other things, the price was right, the size was right, and it would serve the purpose until something better came along or we won the lottery.

Well, 15 years later, I made a burlap "slipcover" for it and I was pretty happy with that. 

But after nearly a year, I was getting tired of the burlap table. I had planned to paint the table over the summer, but life got in the way and I never had the time.

A few weeks ago Husband and I went to some yard sales and found this:

I was in business mode and didn't even think of keeping it for myself.

But when we got it home, I took a really good look at it.

Real wood.

Good bones.

With a leaf, longer than the one I already had.

Needs work, but that's kinda what I do...

Furniture Projects: Numbered Coffee Table

 Husband brought home this sad little coffee table one day

 and I thought, "maybe I can use it for parts".

 It sat in the garage for a year, then one day I literally woke up with the picture in my mind of a table I had seen on Pinterest quite a while ago.
I tried to find that picture but couldn't, so I just went with the picture in my head.

First, I put a couple coats of country white paint on the sad little table.

White paint helps everything look clean and fresh.

Then I got out some numbers I had just bought at a yard sale and randomly traced
 them on the top of the table.

I painted the numbers black and let it all dry over night. The next day I brushed a mix of stains over the top. One was a medium oak and the other was natural, I just sort of dipped and mixed on the table as I went.

The finished product:

It was so cute, I almost kept it!

But, alas, it is destined for the Oregon Street Antique Mall!