Discouraged because you are sick and tired of your rundown, outdated table but just can’t swing a new one? Take faith, my friend. Literally, take Faith’s technique for updating her dreary, distressed-and-not-in-a-good-way dining room table.

A coat of “oops” paint on the chairs, a light weathered look on the legs and (if you or your significant other is handy with the power tools) a little narrowing and lengthening of the tabletop. Now the table can accommodate three chairs on each side, and gobbles up way less space in the room. Lovely! Check it out on her blog Faith of All Crafts.

If you like Better After, you will LOVE the DIY Showoff. And you will love Roeshel, the woman behind the blog. She’s super sweet and super crafty. She manages to run a successful blog while showing off makeovers of others AND throwing in a few of her own. I’m lucky if I remember to post and wear pants on the same day.

Here is her her recent dining room transformation.

Check it out HERE to see how she worked with the three existing built-in hutches and get an up close look at my favorite part, the reclaimed french door (that slides on a track!) that she found in her barn. Um, I want a magical barn that spits out french doors!