Our floor is finished and I have a kitchen table out of my living room and into my kitchen! Even though my cabinets are on back order until Mid-July, I have folding tables where the cabinets should be. It’s a lot of space :). I’ll be happy to have a dishwasher and kitchen sink again, but we have a stove now and life is feeling more normal.
Also we found a “new” table and chair set on Craigslist for a mere $50. Normally the craigslist table wouldn’t have caught my eye, but I had already seen this one from a link at www.knock-off wood.com:
It’s worth a click on the photo to go to Little Bits of Bliss and see how she refinished this table to make it the beauty it is today. I was so inspired by her post that I immediately went to Craigslist and found this:
I was so excited! I plan to copy Little Bits of Bliss on their redesign, but at this point I’m planning on it being a year or more before I even think about it. We are enjoying the unusual colors for now. (If you can’t change it, love it–right?)
Hi!
Can I ask what search term you used in Craigslist? I have been searching for those same chairs since I saw them on the Bliss site.
I just recently found your blog and you are inspiring me to crackdown on our grocery bill!
Thanks,
Kristin
Kristin,
I searched for “kitchen table” and just got lucky. I did have to look several weeks before it came up. I wish craigslist had a way to email us when new listings came up.
What a bargain! It is often surprisingly difficult to get a table AND chairs, for some reason chairs are hard to find, at least around here.
Ya know, if you don’t like the contrast, find a bit of 60″ wide fabric that goes with the chairs and throw it on there-tablecloths make dinner feel like an occasion, right?! LOL-my poor old table, solid as a rock, has been so abused and needs its top refinished, so the tablecloth story is one I’m sticking to.
Found you on Nester, great article-I’m bookmarking you, I am ALL about saving money!
Hey…My husband made me that table and I love it. It was his first furniture project!
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