Farm Table Makeover

I have literally be coveting a Antique Farm table for years now. I was constantly on the lookout for one whether it be antique markets, Kijiji, Craig's list, and honestly you can find them but the price is always out of my range, upwards of $1000+.. So FINALLY I found this amazing Oak farm table with thicker pedestal legs .. and the best part is it was $70!!! OK its not Antique but it is solid wood and it has a ton of character so It will definitely check the box until I can afford a TRUE ANTIQUE table. The top does need some refinishing its in rough shape but the base and drawers are great shape. They were originally painted black. So I painted them in Annie Sloan chalk paint in Old White. 

Our Dining Room Reveal

I will be posting Our Christmas Room Reveal's soon..  So I wanted to make sure you got to see the way our home looks on a everyday basis first. Here is our Dining room Reveal. We fell in love with our new house for the backyard, the round arched doorways throughout and the fact that we finally had a separate dining area again! Even though it's our least used room in our house :( ..I'm working on changing that! The above before picture shows what it looked like when we purchased, with the previous owners decorating.. It showed very nicely when we saw it for the first time, it just wasn't our style.. As I have said before in previous posts.. We had professionals refinish all the hardwood flooring to a dark 'Ebony' tone. We actually didn't paint the walls in here, just added lots of our painted furniture for a softer, lighter look. To make the room appear bigger we switched the table direction to come out from the window. And changed out the old chandelier and all the window hardware and curtains to new, natural linen light weight curtains with white cotton sheers underneath. See more below.

In the corner of our dining room we have a mini bar cart set up. It is a metal stand with a marble top. It features a silver tray and a mix of empty vintage decanters and a glass ice bucket which I got from Homesense a few years ago. I'm not a true drinker.. so I always get flack for the decanters being EMPTY! For me it's just for looks ;)

On either side of the window we hung 2 Antique architectural drawings, framed in simple black Ikea Ribba Frames

Our Current Centrepiece is a wooden box filled with dried hydrangeas and vanilla scented candles. My favourite vanilla candles are the pillar ones from Ikea. Here I used two Hurricane glass vases to hold the ivory coloured candles. And for a little added french flair I wrapped the outside of the candles in a black striped jute webbing.

 

Our Dining hutch provides tons of much needed storage and display space.. currently it holds my granny's dishware set.. I just love the simple floral detail around the edge of the dishes.

I need all the display space I can get.. So I used the top of our hutch to display a few decor items.. A neutral vignette made up of Hydrangeas in a burlap wrapped vase, a wooden bunny and a white soup tureen. With a empty weathered chicken wire garden terrarium on the right side. 

Our Dining hutch was a Kijiji online find for only $75.. I absolutely love the metal grill detail over the glass. It was originally a darker wood, So to make it more my style I painted it Benjamin Moore Natural Linen and changed out the hardware.

See the full transformation here.

 We have 3 different types chairs in this space. I know it sounds like a lot of chairs for one room but because of the material and the colouring of them, they all play nicely together. The head chair's are made from a linen fabric with large metal studs, they were originally used in our previous home's kitchen. They are from Restoration Hardware. The X-back chairs were a Kijiji find that I painted BM Natural Linen to match our hutch and added white linen ruffled slipcovers. You can see the full X-back chair transformation here. Lastly the captain chair's on either side of our hutch are my latest kijiji find!! I fell in love with the french provincial look and the cane back detail .. I will be sharing more info on that amazing transformation coming soon...

Some of our Dining decor... Under one of the shutters I have a Wrought iron urn filled with simple moss balls from Restoration Hardware, displayed with a vintage demijohn jug.

This is our view from our hall into our dining room

Our White dining chandelier wasn't always white.. It used to be gold.. I spray painted it last year. And added the ornate ceiling Medallion for a vintage feel.

Here is Our Dining Chandelier 'Before' when it was Gold.. The white just freshens it up a bit!

See our Previous Dining Room HERE

We hung two wooden clover detail mirrors on either side of our hutch for balance and symmetry. The mirrors were a lucky Homesense find earlier this year.

This is our view from our attached, yet slightly separated Living room. 

Our Dining table is a Mahogany Duncan Phyfe style. Ideally I would love a more farm house style table in here, so for now I added this neutral ticking stripe table runner for a more casual look. The runner is from a great Etsy shop.. I make and sew a lot of items myself but when things are reasonable priced as this one was, sometimes it just easier just to purchase. The runner is a Khaki and Natural tone ticking stripe with a natural ruffle.. It just goes perfect with everything!!

Here is the view from our dining room into our Living room.

Full Living Room Reveal coming soon...

See our Dining Room all dressed up for the Holidays HERE

Thanks for looking.. If you liked this you may like our current Kitchen Reveal

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How to Transform a Vintage Desk/Console into a Kitchen Island

Well this is one of my favourite projects of ALL TIME!! Sooo happy the results so I couldn't wait to share!!

I picked up this console table/ Desk at my local Restore for $25. It was in really good condition, made of solid oak. It came with a drawer that was easy to slide, a door with a magnetic close and a nice open shelving area. I had a transformation vision right away...

 We added real beadboard to both the sides and the door, added a thicker base and furniture legs for height. The hardware got switched out to match our current kitchen. We added stained rustic looking planks for the top of the counter. And finished the project by painting it all in Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White.

The new island is thin enough to not overpower our kitchen. Plus it allows for added storage which we SO needed. The Cabinet holds our pots and the drawer holds all our cutting boards. The basket underneath holds potatoes and onions.

The Before pictures.. The original piece was a Sturdy Oak Base, Heavy with a Black top.

The Future Counter Top: Cedar wood planks cut to over hang ever so slightly on either end. We also cut the width of the planks so that four planks could fit the top perfectly and evenly.

The door.. Don't you just love my weights ;) sometimes you need to get creative.. we Glued the beadboard down with no more nails glue.

I filled the original hardware holes with wood filler and then sanded it. Once we painted the door you could never tell a handle was ever there. I added a Crystal knob to the top right side of the door to match with the rest of the kitchen.

We added Beadboard to the sides of the island and then added 1 1/2 inch wood trim around the sides of the beadboard base to create a more polished finished look. We finished the look by filling in any holes with caulking. Before we added wood planks as the counter top we evened out the counter base with thin wood pieces.  

This is a before picture .. of our Mistake.. we added legs to the current base and it didn't work out.. the legs looked as though they were floating in the middle and looked ridiculous .. So we had a thick piece of wood cut at the hardware store for a base and drilled it into the current base/island.. Then used a ton of caulking to make it look as one ;) Then finally added the four 6 inch legs on the outer corners.. and it was the perfect island height at 36 inches.

See how odd it looked.. Oppsie!! ;)

When we switched the legs ;)

Completed Island View

Painted in Old White Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan

I styled the island with a wood chalkboard which looks like a vintage bread board and layered it with a large black Cook Book about Chocolate..yum.. The Galvanized tin vase on top holds our Fall dried Hydrangeas.

We added a protective wax to the Stained Cedar wood planks to add durability to our counter top. 

The open shelving holds our woven place mats handmade in the Bahamas, a dip painted basket from Homesense housing our Potatoes and Onions and the bottle holder which is from Joss and Main.. The chicken wire bottle holder originally came with clear jars.. but I am currently using them elsewhere.. so Instead I found these adorable little Gingerale Bottles.. AND they fit perfectly.

Thanks for looking.. You can see our Full Kitchen Reveal Here

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