OK, I have posted a few blogs in the past few months about my ongoing dining table and chairs project. Well....it is FINALLY complete! I finished the table this afternoon. I love the way this came out, but if I never see the Benjamin Moore color of "carbon copy" ever again, it will be too soon. My goal was to achieve an antique black color, and it was actually perfect for that. Painted everything, then distressed, then added gold stenciled embellishments. I was influenced by the black and gold style of painting that you sometimes see on antique kitchen chairs. They usually look very fancy, I was going for a more understated fancy. I know that black isn't usually a color of choice for the furniture makeover gals (they love white and pastels- and so do I!) but this pub height table and chairs is more funky, which is how my husband and my style seems to swing often times. We like our stuff to look cool, while not looking like everyone else's. So, this funk-tacular dining set is right up our alley. I am going to be painting some 100 year old dining chairs soon, which are for our future place (when we move out of this student housing apartment) so there will come a time when we do have to refine our style a little...but until then, we can be fun and funky college students. ;)
