How to Make Over Your Dining Room Table (Phase 2)
Remember I started refinishing my dining room table last month. Yeah, we are still eating at a folding table! OMG. The weather hasn’t been amazing to do this sort of work as it has either been boiling hot or raining. So, that was a bit of a delay plus Gabriella’s dance recital over the Memorial Day weekend had put this project on the back burner.
So, this project is taking longer than I imagined, but that is ok because it will be worth it when it is all done – right? I’m starting to see some amazing results and I sense the end is near…?
My wood conditioner, stain, and polyurethane finally got delivered from Amazon. The wood conditioner arrived last, but that sucked since it is the first step after all that sanding.
Yesterday was the first time I touched the table since I started. I’m working in the garage now amongst all the toys and overflow of stuff plus our garage isn’t set up to be a workshop, but this needs to get done! The weather was absolutely perfect too to apply my many coats of stain.
I applied the wood conditioner and instantly heard the table take a big sigh of relief as if it was starting to feel happy again. I waited for that to dry (about 30 minutes) and then got started on my first coat of stain. Remember, I have NEVER done anything like this before. I let that coat dry 2 hours before applying another and then 2 more coats by the end of the day. My garage smells pretty intense but the table looks amazing!
Tips!!!
- Wipe your sanded surface really well with a tack cloth!
- Apply the stain with a foam brush – no messy rags.
- Wipe the excess stain with a rag – or old cloth diaper inserts (I have found so many uses for these since my cloth diaper days ended)!
Today, it is raining, but I am going to start applying my 3 coats of poly in the garage. I also have my Annie Sloan chalk paint ready to start painting my base! Hope to get that going tonight. I plan on painting the chairs too, all six of them, but one at a time.
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