Unlike most of our finds at estate sales, Jared’s mother gave this piece of furniture to us this past week. She had been keeping this for years, because of it beauty, but did not have the time to repair it and clean it up.
When Jared received this table, it was literally in pieces. With a little hard work and elbow grease, he was able to replace the legs, sand it down, and whip it back into shape! Here is a detail of the ornate wood carvings!
As you can see in the first couple of picture, the table has been repaired. At first we were going to sand and stain it a dark wood color, but I got a great idea to lacquer it in a saffron high shine!
Seriously, could there be anything more divine than the warm yellow color of saffron?! We ventured to Home Depot and sure enough I went straight to the color, and it was litterally called Saffron Splendor. Here are some photos of the painting process:
Jared has managed to coat the entire piece with the exuberant yellow, and now that piece from the early 1900s has been brought into the 2000s! I am so excited to get some beautiful summer flowers in a vintage aqua mason jar on that table!
For those of you that live in Portland, you know you need to do anything you can to help cheer up the dreary fall and winter months that we have! I find this to be the perfect solution of adding color to unexpected items in the home, as a reminder that summer is around the corner bringing bright yellow sunshine! Here is a photo of Jared with the finished product:
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