my first DIY project

Well friends, its finished! I will share with you my very first DIY project. 

A couple weeks ago Holly & I lost our roommate Maria, and along with Maria, her kitchen table. We gained Randi, which is super fun, but did not gain a kitchen table. But if I've learned anything, it's that someone will always give you furniture if you wait long enough. We have 2 couches and (now) a kitchen table to prove it. 

My dad just happened to be driving through Lexington on a move of his own, with a kitchen table he no longer needed. Treat. One kitchen table for us :)

Here it was upon arrival:

(if you look closely, you'll see I put the table legs on backwards...didn't realize it until the table was finished...)

 

We were SO excited to have a free kitchen table, but when we looked at it, we saw potential for so much more. So with advise from my friend Katie, a few trips to Lowe's, high school girls who needed ways to fundraise, and a staple gun from the Poston's, I went to work. 

Here are the chairs mid-process:

 

I had TC girls come help me sand the gloss off all the chairs and table. After that I added 2 coats of white/cream paint, a coat of polyacrylic (Lowe's worker said polyurethane would tint it amber), sanded the coat of polyacrylic (according to directions), added one more coat of polyacrylic, re-covered the cusions, put them back on the finished chairs, and now its finished!

Well, remember when I said I put the legs on backwards? It's ALMOST finished. One more trip to Lowe's & touch up painting the table legs will fix that situation. 

Here it is:

 

Don't mind this...it'll be gone by the end of the day!

Now Holly, Randi & I will have a place to sit down and eat together, like a family :)