EverBlooming: Custom Jobs

I am not sure if you knew this, but I do custom work for some of my customers. My friend Carolyn brought me this table and 2 bar stools and asked that I make her a Checker board table out of it.

I remembered to take a before picture, but not until I had already sanded it. It was a beautiful (wink, wink) hunter green and fruit painted table. The stools where hunter green too.

There were several places that needed wood fill and we re-nailed the legs so they were tight. It was a very interesting kind of wood composite. I started by painting the stools and table black. Carolyn wanted the cross bars to be a contrasting color, so I painted them a camel tan color. I also painted the bib that color too.

I painted a square in the center of the table with the tan and drew the checkerboard on top. I used painters tape to mask the squares I didn't want red.

The table turned out really good. I made checker board pieces out of toy wood wheels that I painted red and black. They have a hole in them so we strung them with a leather strip and drilled two holes in the front of the table to hang them on.

Carolyn was so happy she wanted me to do a side table for their living room too.

This table was my grandparents. When Logan was a baby we had painted it blue to go in his nursery next to the rocking chair. Carolyn wanted it black and I painted the bass to match the checker board table. I had to strip all the hardware too. I had painted them grey, yuck!