So we haven’t had a dinning room table since we moved in. Basically we didn’t want to have to buy one for the few times that we need one, and it would make our dinning room feel quite a bit smaller. But when we put our house on the market, we decided we needed to put a table in the dinning room so it would be staged correctly, because selling a home is all about staging these days. My brother and sister in law had an old small kitchen table that they were using anymore and it was just taking up space in their garage so we stole it. They let us take it and we painted it a rich chocolate brown color…It was a pine color. It has white 4×4 tiles in the center of the table and that wouldn’t really work for a dinning room table and we didn’t want to paint the tiles, so I just got a table cloth and viola, here is what you get:
Its nice and it works, just looks kinda funny because its soo small in the room. So I thought of a way to fix the problem. It’s basically 2 2’x6′ pine planks that we put together and has a frame of 2″x3″s that helps hold it to the old table. I just lays right on top of the existing table top and doesn’t wobble around at all becase the frame fits right around the circumference of the table.
I don’t like using saws or big power tools so I had Jonathan help me build the table and then I stained it and put a few coats of polyurethane on it. Here is the end project:
There you have it, our dinning room table for under $100. Well, almost…we still need to get some chairs or benches. There are 4 chairs but only 3 are usable…one of them is broken and you can’t sit in it. But other than that, I love it!
