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Refinishing a Few Furniture Pieces for an Outdoor Wedding

April 24, 2019 / 4 Comments

We had settled on the location for our daughter’s wedding. It was going to be in a field adjacent to our home. This meant we had to supply everything! Every single bit of furniture we would need.

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We needed a guest book table and we found this one through an ad on Craigslist. This wasn’t the piece that was advertised but when we got there, the lady had all kinds of furniture. She liked to buy, refinish and then resell. Her husband didn’t seem too happy about all the space she needed for her hobby but that’s another story. We found this, the price was right and it came home with us.
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First the girls used a palm sander to rough up the finish. Then they applied chalk paint.
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We then practiced styling the guestbook table for how we’d want it to look the day of the wedding. We didn’t use several of the items you see but it gave us an idea of what we needed to do to complete the look we wanted, as well as the height we needed for different items. We then took this picture so that we could recreate it the day of the wedding.
Serenity also wanted to include a place where her guests could write marriage advice and date night ideas. We found this desk at Goodwill and did the same thing with it as we had with the guest book table – sanding it down and painting it with chalk paint.
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We practiced styling it. Like the desk above, we didn’t use some of the things that are displayed here the day of the wedding, we replaced a few items – namely the “Be Kind” sign. As you can see in this photo we had not put on the drawer pulls yet.

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I guess I didn’t take any before photos of the wagon but it was a red wooden wagon. Serenity sanded it down and then stained the wood. It turned out so nice! We practiced putting in different size pillows because we had two precious little ones that were going to be riding in it over bumpy terrain and we didn’t want anyone to get bruised or banged up. 🙂 We ended up using some small pillows that I had and then we purchased a little one at Goodwill and then we made slipcovers for all of them out of painters drop cloth that we purchased at Harbor Freight.

We were making progress. It felt good. We tried to accomplish a little something everyday, otherwise I’d get a nervous twitch thinking of all the details that needed to be done!

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