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My nest : The Dining Room

Last April I wondered  in to the Salvation Army thrift store near my house.  I love the SA thrift store and I honestly think I get better deals there as a posed to Good Will.  It doesn’t keep me out of Goodwill, God forbid.  I just go to SA a lot more often.  Anyway, I walk in and I see it.   The Silver Tuna.  The one.  My greatest thrift store find to date! My eyes glazed over.

 When my vision cleared I found the price tag and my heart sank: $200. Poop!  I already had a perfectly good solid oak dining table and 6 chairs.  I had had it for 23 years & it showed.  It would be stupid for me to buy this.  So I left without it . . . And went home to sulk.  All I could think about was those legs!!!!!  So, my husband finally asked me what was on my mind and I just SPEWED.  And I continued to spew & agonize for over a week.  To the point that my husband had had it with me.  Now, let me just say that Big Daddy Mac is a good guy.  He puts up with,  better yet he encourages all my hair brained ideas AND fixes all the stuff I break.  So when he says he has had enough, I listen.  “Go. Get. It”. He said.  And still I could not.  

So about 10 days later, I went back.  I could see it through the window of the store as I sat in traffic waiting to turn in to the parking lot so I calmed down a little.  I was fully prepared to pay the price.  It was eating me alive, but I was gonna do it.  At my SA they have a big dry erase board with their info for the day on it.  You know, what the different color tags mean, what the special stuff is.  That sort of thing.  Well I must have been living right that day because the dining set was MARKED DOWN to &129.00!  I could not write the check fast enough.  In fact, I messed the first one up!  I was so excited I called my neighbor ( and great friend) to beg her to use her husband’s truck.  
This picture was taken just after me and the neighbors unloaded it form their truck into my garage.  Note the bright red strap on the table leg.  The LEG.  We snapped it smack in two loading it into the truck.  I am serious.  I could not make this up if I tried.  I said very bad words right in front of Cynthia, the nice SA lady who always rings me up.  Her eye got huge, “Do you want your money back ?”, she ask very timidly.  No way, this was mine!  
It took me a while to decide just what I wanted to do with the table and chairs.  I would go out in the garage every day and look at it.  Ok, several times a day.  I am ok with it.  I had researched Chalk Paint  for months prior to finding the set.  I had even gone so far as to buy a sample pot of Duck Egg (still my favorite). It sat on my kitchen counter for almost three months.  
Our local Annie Sloan stockest is called The Pink House. So Big Daddy went with me to check out all the colors together (nice man) and decide what color our new dining room table & chairs would be. 
We chose Old White & we love it!  I use it a lot.  Remember when I referred to Amy Howard black  as a Basic?  Old White is The Basic.  You can not go wrong with it.  We decided to sand the top of the table down and refinish it.  We chose Special Walnut for the stain and I could not be happier!  On the sanded pine top It gives the effect of barn wood!  I have used this stain several times on other woods, a maple and a mahogany.  Both time it looked totally different, not barn wood at all but gorgeous just the same.
This is Emmitt.  And this is his favorite nap spot!

Have a good week!
Paige
 (Emmitt’s Mama)

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