French Cottage Dining Table Makeover

Yesterday we headed over to my sister’s house for a little Cinco De Mayo celebration where we also discussed some wedding ideas and even did some cake tasting. My sister will actually be making our wedding cake and since I’m super picky and not a huge cake person I told her I wanted some sort of white cake with a buttercream frosting. After narrowing it down she came up with 3 white cake options, one with strawberry filling, one with raspberry filling and one that was plain white cake. She made all of them with a vanilla bean, buttercream frosting which was soooooooooo good and I usually don’t like frosting either, haha.

I hope I explained this right because I really don’t know much about cakes, all I know is all three cakes were delish and that my sister is AMAZING! The strawberry was our favorite so at least that’s one wedding decision marked off our list. Here is a photo of the test cakes she made, aren’t they freakin’ adorable!? For the wedding she plans on making a 4 tier cake and dressing it up with some burlap and dusty rose-colored ribbon – I wanted something clean, simple and pretty that would compliment our whole vintage, rustic-chic theme.

French Cottage Dining Table Makeover

Now onto Makeover Monday! So my latest project was our dining room table, which has been used more like a craft table lately (and ironing board, oops) and has definitely seen better days. I had upholstered the dining chairs with a yellow chevron pattern just 2 years ago, but since our kitties have been using those as scratching posts they were in need of an overhaul as well. And since I don’t have a sewing machine and don’t know much about sewing {it is on my to-do list!}, when my mom offered to reupholster the chairs this time around I was all for it!

For the dining table makeover, I wanted to go for the whole “french cottage” feel. For the top of the table, I used a custom beige, chalk paint by mixing 3 different colors I had on hand. I did sand the top first to smooth out some of the scratches but didn’t sand any other parts of the table {oh the joys of using chalk paint!}. For the legs of the table and the chairs, I used “cottage linen” chalk paint. I then distressed the entire table and chairs and waxed them. The table felt like it was missing something so I decided to add some nailhead trim details, and I LOVE the way it turned out. The fabric for the chairs was purchased via Ebates through fabric.com.

Here are some before photos:

 Here are some photos taken in the process of making the dining table over.

And here is my new french cottage dining table with upholstered chairs all complete!

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