If I can do it, You can do it!!!!

Let me start this post by saying if I can do these things then there is no excuse, you can do them to. I am no Joanna Gaines, but I do know how to follow her on Instagram. I follow other home decorators and through watching what they do and asking people I know I just figure it out!

Project - Husbands childhood dining room table

This table has been with my husband since before he can remember. So roughly this Oak table is 40 years old. We were given this beauty after my Father-in-love passed away back in 2002. So as you can see the stain that was on this table had worn off. It was in such bad shape that napkins would stick to the table and water marks were a common eye sore for this beauty. So I did what anyone thinks to do but doesn't. I was going to refinish my own table. So after many hours of going through Pinterest I decided to go for.

First STEP (1) SAND it down

Let me say that 40 year old stain is hard to remove. I even have an orbital sander. We used a very strong grit of sandpaper. It took 16 sheets of 60 grit paper to remove the stain from the table top. That's alot of grit People.

Second Step - Choose Stain. (the above pic includes the right side stained)

I really like this stain color.

Third Step - Stain

 It only took one coat of stain for the top of our table. I WAS SHOCKED! This stain soaked in so well.
Fourth Step- Paint!!!

This is where child labor came into play. My Little wanted to help. So help he did. It took two coats of paint to cover the legs of this table.

Fifth Step - Wait!!
It takes time to dry. This is the hard part for me!! Tick Tock...Hurry up I'm ready to put you in my house.

Sixth Step- Polyurethane/Sand/Repeat.
This is the step you don't want to miss!! This step either makes or breaks your project. Put some Poly in a cup and then add a little Paint thinner to the Poly. This helps the poly go on smoothly (tip from a friend and owner of http://www.dutchmillcabinets.com/ Let dry. Then sand. Then apply a second coat of Poly. Let dry and repeat sanding and poly as many coats as desired. I did 2 coats of Poly on mine....

Seventh Step- ENJOY!!!