Ann Tique

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Monday, June 19, 2017

Painted and stenciled farm table

Modernize old farm table

When I bought this table and 3 chairs at a county auction it was covered in flat black paint. This was covering a pretty blue, I guess because remnants of the blue sort of remained after all my hours of stripping the old black paint.
I have been using the table in its stripped-down state on my covered deck for about 15 years. It never any protective finish on it and has held up quite well. I recently painted another old piece, a secretary desk, that I primed 10 years ago, so I was on a roll for painting!
I've had a Cricut Explorer for a year and a half, but haven't used it much. This was about to change. Having recently repainted our balustrades, hubs filled me in on Crawford's light-bodied Vinyl Spackling Paste. I used this to fill some old cracks in the tabletop where planks had been joined together but separated over time. This was easy to do and I sanded it to a (roughly) smooth surface. I mean this table is about 100 years old so it's not gonna be smooth as glass. After priming and painting the entire surface with yellow (Oops paint toned down with white) I decided to make a border stencil to coordinate with my deck rugs. I taped off a 2-inch border and painted that white with paint I had.

Ta dah!

I'm very pleased with the way this turned out. I taught myself how to make a usable stencil and it basically cost me nothing as I had all the materials on hand. It was fun to see my idea devlop.