Have I ever told you that I love rustic furniture? Well Im crazy about it, and when I was given this antique round side table I got extremely excited!
I pondered for months trying to decide what I was going to do with this piece. Then suddenly it came to me, I wanted to give this table a hand scraped look.
Here is what the table looked like when I received it.
I really like the white, but it’s just too much white and it looks boring, so I decided to keep the legs white and make the top a dark stain color.
Now I’m faced with sanding or stripping the white paint off the top, so I bought some 30 minute Klean-strip Stripper found at most paint stores: Home Depot, Lowes, ect… and applied this according to the instructions.
This is with one application, so it might take several steps before it’s completely stripped.
Once I got the top stripped I took out my secret tools and distressed this entire side table.
Here are the results:
I hand rasped the edges.
I sanded through the white paint in spots so you could see the original finish beneath.
Here I added wormholes for character and charm.
Then, I added a few cracks to make it look even older. Did I mention it’s super fun to do this?
This is a shot of the top.
This table was so fun to refinish! It went from plain and boring to a piece of art with rustic flare! My family will truly enjoy this piece and it will wear extremely well with the kiddos.
For those wondering… I used Old Masters Gel Stain, Dark Walnut for the top, and I finished the entire table with Staples Paste Wax to give it an old world touch.
Lastly, here are some final pics with decor.
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I love what you did to the top of the table. I am actually googling now on if it’s possible to take my 1990 honey pine side tables to a hanscraped dark wood finish, like the top of your table here. I sure hope it’s possible. I did take my cookie spatula from my kitchen to see how easy I could scrape it and heading to Lowes soon to get the “real tools”
Any words of advice??
Just make sure the areas that you will be hand scraping are solid wood, not veneered. Have fun and let your creativeness run wild!
This is awesome! Could you please share how you actually distressed it?
And how you achieved the handscraped top?
Tools? Techniques?
Thanks
Hi Jamie, thanks for the nice complement! Distressing takes somewhat of a creative eye or lots of hands-on experience. Tools I use vary… sometimes I simply look around and find objects that are closest to me that can produce damage. Rocks, hammers, nails, rasps, files, garden tools, and many more objects are what I like to use. If you find a tool you love like a antique nail…stash it in a bin for easy access. The store Woodcraft sells many wood scraping tools, add some elbow grease and you’ll have some nice looking pieces. I generally find scrap wood or old cabinet doors to make samples for varying degrees of distressing and finishing schedules. Hopefully this helped you some!