Good Morning,

I hope your week is off to a great start.

Every year between Christmas and New Years', Anthony and I tackle a project. It's one of my favourite accidental traditions of the holidays. This year we gave our dining room table a makeover. Now I know some of you are thinking WHY! why on earth would you paint that beautiful table. Let me explain. I LOVE this table! I've tried so hard to keep from painting it. I've sanded and restained three times over the last four years, and I could never get the colour right. No matter how hard I tried, it always had a yellow tinge because it's pine. I even tried to bleach it. I'm the type of person that mentally can't settle when something isn't how I want it. It will make me twitch and occupies too much of my creative headspace.

Anthony wanted me to sell the table, and he was going to make a new one, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I have so many memories creating this table, and making it over with Anthony that I just wasn't ready to let it go. I have a small white table in the kitchen, and I use it almost daily for staging photos and as a backdrop. I love the way my tablescapes look over the white planks and how easily creative visions come to me, so after talking about it for a few weeks, we agreed that painting it white was the only way to keep the table.

I like a little distressing, the kind that looks like it happened over time, especially on an 8.5ft flat white surface. It breaks it up nicely; that was the plan going into this makeover. The base was a breeze, and I thought the top was going to be as well.

I'm sure you know where this is going, lol. The top was a disaster! Four days into the project, we decided to sand it down again and start over. I was worried it wasn't ever going to turn out how I envisioned. Over the years, we've gotten good at figuring out how to "fix" things and create our vision. Starting over was 100% the right decision, and I'm happy we didn't just settle.

Anthony refuses to take shortcuts when it comes to building, so he joined the boards properly, and it created invisible seams. I wanted visible seams on the white table, so he took his router and created them where the boards were initially joined and I added slight distressing.

I love the way it looks in the dining room, like a fresh breath of spring air. Up next the chandelier, lol! It's going gold... stay tuned for that DIY coming to the blog soon, thanks to my Instagram Friend Amani.

OH! And yes! There are two sets of cutlery on the table. I just bought the matte gold ones from Fable, but they are pricy, so I'm saving for the second set. Until then, I'll mix the two golds (even though it makes me twitch.)

Thank you for stopping by.

Megan, xo

TABLE REFRESH