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Friday, May 13, 2011

{Visitor} I Heart My Glue Gun

Hey ladies!!!
Today I am doing my first OFFICIAL blog swap.
I will be hanging out at I Heart My Glue Gun,
and Janet is here sharing with you guys.

ENJOY!!!!!!!
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Hey all you Rock N Regalia readers!!
My name is Janet, and I'm the owner of www.iheartmygluegun.com!
I am so honored to be over here at Rock N Regalia!

I truly love blogging. I've been blogging since February of this year, and it has just been such a joy! I love getting inspiration from other bloggers out there, and implementing the things I've seen into my home! I'm sure you can relate :)

So since I'm visiting over here, I thought it would only be fitting to bring my best! Today, I'm going to show you my dining room table turned from beastly to beautiful!

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As you can see, my dining room table was the cream of the crop in 1978 (like my calendar falling off the wall? That's how we roll). It was given to us by our old neighbors, and they gave me all matching 8 chairs! The table was a huge blessing because at the time we had a 4 person table with one of the chairs only bearing three legs, and we had our youth group coming over once to twice a week so we needed something desperately!

But it's 2011, not 1978. It had burn marks from a hot casserole dish burning through the tablecloth, scratches, cheerios, cup rings...it had definitely seen better days.

So after vigorous sanding, Kilz oil based primer, latex satin black paint on the table and Rustoleum's semi-gloss spray paint on the chairs, and a few coats of Minwax Polycrylic gloss, it was as good as new!

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Please excuse the missing chair, she was painted later and was having the 3 day cure I did on the table and chairs.

I love it now! I've been contemplating bringing in different dining room chairs to spice it up a bit, but that costs money and a deep hunt on craigslist. So I'm okay with my extremely low cost renovation to my dining room table for now!

Thanks for having me, and please come over to I HEART My Glue Gun to see the guest posts that happened all this week!


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Thanks again to Janet.
Come back in just a bit for this weeks edition of 
Frugal Friday.



3 comments:

  1. That is FANTASTIC. I have a similar set and have been looking for something for it and that is the answer I have been looking for!

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  2. that is AMAZING! I helped my mom do this with her table and it turned out almost as great as yours! what would we ever do without spray paint?

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  3. I love this make over, it turned out so great! I wish my table was one that could be fixed like this!

    I am following you from Agape Love Designs and also from I heart my glue gun!

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