Table Redo with Reclaimed Bowling Alley Flooring

Hey there!  

Hope you had a lovely weekend!

As we get ready for the October Grand Opening of our shop, 

we are working hard to find just the right things to fill the inside.  

Finding the right piece to put in the huge window display 

has been really important to us.  

Hubby was driving home last week and came 

across a table in an alley that looked as if it was being thrown out.  

He called the owner of the property it was on and 

asked if he could have it and they said sure, so he packed it up and brought it home.  

It was in pretty sad shape but it wasn't the top we were interested in.......it was the legs.  

Take a look......

We loved the industrial pipes and huge castors so we removed those from the

 plywood top and gave them a good wash.  

I happened to remember that we still had one huge slab of reclaimed bowling alley flooring from last summer that was sitting in our storage facility.  

So we loaded it up and brought it home to work on it.

We measured out where we wanted to attach the legs and drilled holes to accommodate them.  Because the slab is so massive, we needed to build the table first 

before starting work on the table top.

The flooring was covered in that thick yellow lacquer, so I bought a can of paint stripper and got to work, using gloves of course.

Here's a look at it half way through the stripping process.  Isn't the wood underneath lovely?

After stripping everything off, I gave it a good sanding with 180 grit sandpaper and my palm sander.  Then coated the whole thing with Minwax Finishing Wax in Natural.   I happen to like finishing wax much better than polyurethane because it leaves a more natural look on the wood instead of looking like you coated it with polyurethane.  Then I gave the pipe legs and castors a light coating of oil rubbed bronze spray paint.  Here's how it looks now.....

We are pretty happy with it!

We can't wait to get it into the display window with some pretty cool things on the top of it.

And I'm crazy about those castors!

 

 We love the vintage industrial look!

Hubby went to a big estate sale this weekend and he came home with some amazing finds

for our shop that I can't wait to share!

I've had lots of folks emailing me asking where our shop is going to be located and 

I will share all that info as we get closer to the big day.

We hope to have a spectacular grand opening 

complete with a piece of furniture to be given 

away in a drawing, so, we do hope you think about making the trip.

I'd love to meet some of our readers!

Have a great day!

Diana :)