Dining room Buffet Table

Buffet Table

  

My final piece for the dining room was a buffet table. I wanted something simple made from real wood that I could redo myself…and with a low price tag. Something like this but with more open storage instead of so many drawers. 

"My Inspiration"

http://pinterest.com/pin/175077504234751580/

So I began my search on craigslist. It took about a week to find the one that was just right. I found it just 15 minutes away from a very nice man moving to Michigan…who was selling it for $25. It did have all 3 drawers when we bought it, two of them became firewood for my husband later that week.

before

 We got it home and gave it a good cleaning and sanding. We had to replace the bottom board with plywood for to create a bottom shelf. Then I painted the entire thing black to match our fireplace and new chandelier. Add a few coats of polyurethane to protect it from my children…and finished!

We already had the sanding, painting supplies. So the only new costs were for the dresser, the plywood, and new knobs…Total cost $30.

 

Black & Blue End Table ~ $11.50

Room, room and more room! I’m not complaining…but when you go from an 1200sqft apartment to a 2200sqft home…you seem to have a lot less furniture. I've never had a living room and separate family room before, so we are lacking in furniture. Our living room consisted only of a couch (my husband got a almost new black leather Lay z boy couch from a client for free) and an area rug that we moved from our dining room when we got our “grown up table” (that post will be coming soon…and it is Amazing!) Needless to say…it was lacking not just in furniture, but in character also. I knew I wanted to get an end table that I could “fix up”. Below is a picture of my "inspiration" from Pinterest. Its completely not the color or design I wanted but I loved that they added their own creativity to it. 

 http://pinterest.com/pin/255508978828951930/

So I went to a few different thrift stores over the next week and finally found my diamond in the ruff. It was an old brown end table that had a faint smell of cigarettes…ugh. After some much needed cleaning and sanding, and airing out, it was ready to paint. I went with black (a reoccurring theme you will see throughout my home) and used some of the leftover paint from our bathroom redo to give it some character. Here is a picture of the wood before we started.

And here is the after shot. I love how it turned out, and in total it only cost me $10 for the table and $1.50 for new knobs…can’t beat $11.50.