Saturday, July 11, 2015

Furniture makeover. Dining table edition

After last year's flood I started to redecorate and now that I'm almost finished with grad school, I've got some free time.....  So I've formed an addiction to kijiji and have started hunting down great finds.

When I had to replace furniture after the flood. I decided to move the ikea sectional and the tv downstairs and to put "nice" furniture up in the living room with no tv.

When I was buying the couch and chairs I spotted this.


Where to buy.

I loved that table so much more than the plain pine ikea table I'd had for 15 years. But even on sale for half off it was $600 and I'd need new chairs.....  And I really didn't need it. But I really really wanted it!

One day on kijiji I spotted this.
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Same shape. But cherry wood. I have nothing cherry in the house....   It was listed at $100 but had been posted for over a week.  I messaged the seller and offered $80.  She accepted and so now I had my table but the wrong colour. And I had a table that I needed gone.  Kijiji to the rescue again.  A company had just expanded their office and needed break room furniture.  They were happy to take my table and chairs and with the extra cash I hopped over to Lowes for some Rustoleum metallic paint. 

Two coats of pewter paint and now I have this. 


5 years later.....

I'm the worst blogger ever. I haven't posted in 5 years!