Black Table Makeover With Paint & Stain

Each month, a group of my blogger friends gives a piece of furniture a themed makeover. This month, it was back to black.

This beautiful pedestal table was in near perfect shape, but the owner was ready for a change after 10+ years.





If you've ever had a project that gave you a run for your money, this blog post is for you. See this streaky, horrible finish? That's what kept happening each time I applied my top coat. I sanded, repainted and applied 4 different types of top coats and the streaks would reappear.





Time to move on to Plan B: sanding to bare wood and using black stain. Only problem was this table top wasn't having that either. The black gel stain turned the table BROWN when applied. Can I get a collective sigh?!
Not one to give up, I persisted and wasn't going to let this table get the best of me.
Find out how I figured out to ebonize (turning wood black) this table into a black beauty on my blog post: http://www.highstylerestyle.com/blog/how-to-get-the-perfect-black-stain






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