So Many Stains...

I saw this end table at a yard sale for $2.  Yip, 2 dollars!!! I grabbed it, well I really didn't need to grab it, no one else wanted it.  I could see the top restained and the rest in a cream.  Of course I would fix it all up and then age it.  I was at my Mom's the other day and she had bought an end table almost exactly like this one except her's was all cream.  She told me she thought it was new until she looked closer at it.  What she was noticing was the sanding and the aging that the painter had done.  When I told her that the seller had done that on purpose to give it a "older, used look", and that I loved that look also.  She looked at me like I was crazy.  She asked me more then once, "now why do you do that"?  But she loves her table and I love mine.

Here she is with some sanding.  My favorite part in discovering what is underneath all the ugly stuff.  The wood is so pretty, I think it's maple, not sure though.

So here goes the first coat of stain, looking good!

I've stained it once here and then added some poly. 

Here she is, I really like how it turned out.  I always hate the distressing part, but it seemed like the more I did it, the more I wanted to do it.  I sanded some and then used the same stain, Minwax Special Walnut, to distress it. 

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