Finished table
Back in May I'd bought a handmade pine table at the Kane County Flea Market for only $10. It wasn't very pretty, but it was the size I needed and I knew I could strip it and refinish it.
Well, stripping it didn't work out the way I'd hoped, because the varnish/stain/whatever that he'd used was so deep into the wood that the stripper couldn't lift it out. My dad had to take the table apart and sand it down to get the varnish/stain/whatever out, and even then he couldn't get it all out. He got a vast majority of it out, but not all of it.
Then I painted it, polished the brass hardware (which was very tiring as it was very dirty and I had to do a lot of scrubbing and soaking to get it all clean) and bought new screws for the corner pieces as the screws that came with the table were too tiny to clean and polish. Dad put it back together and voila! Pretty new table!
The yellow is on one of the walls in my room and the blue is on the ceiling. The rest of my walls are a very very light and pale grey. The colors on the side are true to what's in my room; the polyurethane that my dad used on the shelves and tabletop changed their color a bit.
Well, stripping it didn't work out the way I'd hoped, because the varnish/stain/whatever that he'd used was so deep into the wood that the stripper couldn't lift it out. My dad had to take the table apart and sand it down to get the varnish/stain/whatever out, and even then he couldn't get it all out. He got a vast majority of it out, but not all of it.
Then I painted it, polished the brass hardware (which was very tiring as it was very dirty and I had to do a lot of scrubbing and soaking to get it all clean) and bought new screws for the corner pieces as the screws that came with the table were too tiny to clean and polish. Dad put it back together and voila! Pretty new table!
The yellow is on one of the walls in my room and the blue is on the ceiling. The rest of my walls are a very very light and pale grey. The colors on the side are true to what's in my room; the polyurethane that my dad used on the shelves and tabletop changed their color a bit.