Dinning Room

Hey there!  Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  I was finally able to work on this cabinet that hubby found and let me tell ya, it had me completely stumped.  I just didn't have a clue what to do with it.   No matter how much I stared at it, I came up with nothin'.   But after some time away from it,  I finally decided to just try to bring it back to its original beauty.   Here is the before pic. The top had a huge hole in it, so I removed that and bought another top at Lowe's for around 10 bucks.   We attached the new top and I applied two coats of Minwax Special Walnut stain. I decided to just leave the tin sides alone, but I did give them a good cleaning.  We removed all the hardware and I spray painted them with Rustoleum oil rubbed bronze spray paint.  I also gave the entire piece a couple of coats of Minwax special walnut to match the top and when it was completely dry, I gave it a coat of wax....

My hubby brought home this piece of furniture last week, but honestly, we weren't sure what it was.  It looked like something that perhaps at one time, went in a bathroom?  At least that's what the medicine cabinet, pile of very old linens and old mirror suggested.  Here's a look at it. I thought the base cabinet was amazing, but, I could do without all the "stuff" up above, at least not on the cabinet anyway.  So, off it came.  I saved the mirror and medicine cabinet and removed the scroll work.  I'll be doing something with those, just not sure what yet.. I removed all the hardware, and gave it a good coat of Kilz because it did have that "old" smell that I didn't want in our home.  One coat took care of that.  Next, I painted it Valspar Ultra White and then sanded the edges to distress it a bit. I liked the original hardware, but wanted something a little different that would be more in keeping with things in our home, so, I made a trip to Low...