Table Talk

Some people are wary to paint over old furniture.  I get it. Wear and tear can totally add character and tell a story.  “These scratches here came from great-grandma Lucy’s sewing machine, a poor widower who would sit at her kitchen table well into the midnight hours, mending clothing for the local townsfolk so that she could earn enough money to buy her five children a Christmas turkey.” On great-grandma’s grave, don’t you dare paint over that furniture.

But what if your furniture’s story goes more like: “Hey! Remember when you put a cup of hot coffee here?  And here? And remember when you spilled a boiling bowl of green beans over here?  Ha!  Good times!”  No.  Not good times.  Those were times that Laura was happy to forget, but the diminishing finish of her tabletop reminded her of them everyday.  Fed up, she stripped and sanded it down to the bare wood, and after a few stain mishaps, found the perfect shade to revitalize it and make it sing again.  It’s lovely!

See the whole story on her blog Practically Revived.