Garden Table Fix-up

8 Jun, 2015

When I bought my awesome big house it came with a bunch of trash to treasure junk laying all around. This small weather beaten table stained with paints and all laminated parts peeling apart caught my eye. Hey, it has hardwood legs! I noticed 🙂

I took a closer look and assessed the situation. This won’t be as much of an old table resurrection as a new table with old legs haha, but I still felt like saving it. It was not difficult to take it apart. It took one push and the poor thing folded. I measured all the parts that needed to be replaced and cut the new wood to the correct measurements.

When I had all the new pieces duplicated and ready and old pieces cleaned up, I decided to stain parts of the table with nice mahogany oil stain and paint other parts with water based ivory paint.

I didn’t have big enough furniture clamps, so I had a great excuse to order new ones 🙂 I picked the old style steel ones over the new half plastic grip clamps… 49″ long should be enough? They are sturdy and will last forever… at least considering their weight! Our postal girl just stopped by, that I have some insanely heavy package in their office, that she couldn’t lift into her van lol. I just unwrapped it at the post office and carried them to the car one by one. I glued the whole thing together using wood dowels as connectors. And clamped it all tight overnight with a help of The Wizard, since the clamps are too long for one person to handle. I reused the old plastic drawer from the old table and screwed a new wood face on it and decorated it with a cute blue ceramic knob I found in a dollar store as a final touch.

Ready for the first spring breakfast outside… I surprised even myself how good the “new” table looks!
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