Furniture Fix # 1 - Chippy Table Frame + Pine Top

Project: Adding a table top to a Vintage Chippy Frame/legs

This was a long time to finish project.

Added a Dick and Jane Friends and Neighbours reader, Paddy the Beaver, a mid-century English Sadler 2 cup size teapot and a bib apron to the tablescape, a definite mixture of vintage. The table colour looks more green than pale grey in this photo, scroll down to the next picture for a more accurate colour.

The booth next to mine, Autumn Rose, sells wonderful vintage aprons and the (double lined) apron with just a touch of pale lilac made the dress form look prettier).

Added a Summer sign (dreaming of) and shells for another view of the tabletop finish.

The table frame and legs with flaking green under pink paint was stacked in the shed for about 3 years. 

Finally brought it into the house where it shed a lot of flakes on the carpet. Eventually found and added two coats of Fusion Tough Coat Sealer from Fusion Mineral Paint, which left the flakey look and kept the chippy paint chips on the legs and frame.

Frame sat for several months in the living room covered with a couple of boards and a towel.  

Below - Tough Coat and the grey Milk Paint powder

This is a view of the table when the Tough Coat sealer was applied/drying. It was resting on the pine top DH made for the cabinet in the kitchen.

Previously DH had glued/clamped/planed/routed the edges of 3 lengths of pine board together to make a cabinet top.

Then he found a great piece of wooden countertop at a garage sale and the piece of glued up pine was available for the table top project.
You see this wooden countertop view (below) in so many of my photo's.

Table frame had a few more months to wait but now it was covered by the pine ex-counter top piece and used as a project base, as a place to pile stuff, the usual uses for a flat surface. Always handy to have another surface available.


DH decided that the prepared pine top would work for the table top (with some changes). In late August (when I wasn't home to take pictures) he cut a piece off the large board and made one drop leaf, used some seriously old hinges (from our junk box) plus added a table drop-leaf support and stopper (small wooden piece attached under drop-leaf). I sealed (painted) the underneath the tabletop with a wash of light blue chalk paint.

DH's decision to add one drop leaf was based on an antique Bakers table with turned legs and one drop leaf, with a pine top, probably has old milk paint with the colour made from ox blood. This was his Mom's and it was very old when she bought it. Love the hinge and the age of the wood.

Back to the replacement table top project.

The table top was attached to the frame with metal brackets (see arrow). The word Schellley was written on the frame when it originally arrived and I left it alone.

I did experiment trying to match the colour of the legs and got fairly close.

Here is what I did to match the colour of the frame/legs to a pine board.

First tried pink and red chalk like paint thinned 1 paint to 2 water. Mixed, tested on a pine board (that had the grey chalk paint underpainting). This was not the right colour.

Next mixed pink and orange chalk like paint, 1:2 water, foam brushed onto the grey stained piece of pine board. Dried. Used clear then dark wax and wiped/polished when dry. The colour match was fairly good.

After looking at the colours against the table legs for several days the pinkish-orangish colour was just too intense for a current kitchen table top. 

Eventually I used the milk paint powder (grey) that I had picked up from a garage sale years and years ago. I mixed it 1 tsp power to 3 Tsp of cool water and stirred until smooth. That was my wash. 

Applied two coats of wash on the table top and all edges using a foam brush. Then the table sat, covered with a towel, used for projects or loaded with thrifted finds for another couple of months.

This March I finally decided that the light grey wash would be the table top colour and sealed the top with 3 coats of Minwax Satin Finish 360 Tudor, sanded very lightly before and after each coat. Enough was enough and I was finished with the small table.

It will be going over to my booth.

First upcycled furniture project of 2017.

Any products shown or written about were because I used them for my project, no other reason.

Another furniture fix coming soon. Hint below.

Thank you for visiting.

Featured by Beverly @ How Sweet The Sound

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