When I interrupted my refinishing last week to give the tiered stand a new look, I also decided it was time to update a side table that was no longer giving me joy as a plain white table.
I picked this little table up at a garage sale for $3 many years ago.
It was dirty and had some watermarks.
The white was fine while I was in the middle of our remodel, but now it needed some color.
Our tongue and groove paneling and furniture are white.
That was too much lack of color for me.
As I started to strip the paint off the top, I realized I wasn’t dealing with just a painted wood top.
The white paint lifted, but the table still had a film – a reddish tint and I couldn’t lift it. That’s when I realized there was a leather top on the table that had been painted. It wasn’t salvageable. I was happily surprised at how easily the leather piece lifted with the help of a paint scraper.
I hoped for a pretty wood under the leather.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t so nice and was different types of wood in different colors.
I used a General Finishes dark walnut stain to unify the wood top color.
The bottom of the table is painted in Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint in Aviary.
Then finished with MMS antique wax.
I lightly sanded the beading around the top so it would stand out a bit.
The table looks so much better in this richer color and it shows up in the room now!
