The $1,000,000 table makeover

I really like round pedestal tables. The fact that there are no legs to get in the way is great. And it somehow feels more social to sit around a round table than a square table. Here are just a few examples of some beautiful round pedestal tables…

Design by Phoebe Howard, image via dh designs

 Image via Kosmix

 Image via Stoney Creek Furniture

 Images via Pure Style Home

 Image via Decor Design Ideas

Image via Decorpad

A good quality solid wood pedestal table isn’t cheap – they go for around $1,000. But that’s nothing compared to my million dollar pedestal table! ;-)

A little while back, I posted about my $2,000,000 chair makeover here.

When you’ve got chairs worth a couple of million bucks, what else would you pair them with, but a table worth a million or so, right? ';-) Not long after I bought the chairs, I picked up a round oak table from Kijiji for $75. Hubby took the table apart before I took before pics, but it looked exactly like this:

My original plan was to sand it down a bit, prime & paint it, and voila, a games table to pair up with the chairs.  But if you read about my chair makeover, you know my hubby likes to make things way more complicated than they need to be. He pulled the table apart and there I was again, sanding my guts out. Ugh. Anyway, it occurred to me that seeing as the table was in pieces, it probably wouldn’t be too hard to change the base. I wasn’t crazy about the four little legs, so asked hubby if he could create a base with bun feet instead. Like this:

Grand Lake Pedestal Table by Martha Stewart

Surprisingly, he was open to the idea of making a new base – any excuse to use power tools, I guess ;-) I forgot to take in-progress pics, but basically all I did was sand, stain, and varathane the top, column, and the base parts that hubby made.

I used the same dark brown stain and varathane that I used on the chairs. And the table was transformed from this:

To this:

Cost breakdown for table:

• Table: $75.00
• Stain: $0 (already had)
• Varathane: $0 (already had) 
• Oak to make base and feet: $30.00
• Plugs to fill holes from old legs: $3.27

Grand total: $108.27

Total cost for table and four chairs: $282.70

Plus labour, of course!

I’m thrilled with how the table and chairs came out. Now we just need to tidy up a corner in the loft for them, and then they’ll be ready for games night :-)

I’m linking my table makeover up to Metamorphosis Monday over at Between Naps on the Porch. The blog party starts around 9:00 Sunday night – don’t miss it! I’m also joining the Linking Party at Passionately Artistic.