Rustic dining room renovation with D.I.Y. table

[Poshrustic]

Stained wood, white paint and wrought iron helped create this rustic-style dining room featuring a D.I.Y. table, wood stacker, planter and second-hand doors as a wall feature. 

• The project
• Steps
• Tools and materials
• More inspiration for your home

The project

Our house was old, dark and dated. Being in the Perth Hills, I wanted to create a rustic feel in every room. Here in the dining room, I've made everything myself (except the dresser and the chairs) mostly from scratch. I love the warm cosy feel that has been created. My style is rustic, and it allows me to "have a go", as I don't have the traditional training, which usually means precision. 

Steps

Step 1

First job was to re-stain the rafters to a rich dark colour, then to paint the brick work white to make the whole room brighter, but still retaining its rustic character.

Before PhotoRestaining the raftersPainting the walls white

 

Step 2

My centrepiece is my table. I couldn't find what I wanted in the shops, so I made it myself. I didn't have a lathe at this point, so couldn't turn the legs myself, so I created a leg shape using small pieces glued together and stuck to an old table leg. I made the frame and the top, assembling them using Pocket Hole Joinery. I added extra texture to the table top by scoring it by using a wire brush attachment on my drill. The base I painted with an aged effect, and the top I stained and waxed.

Creating the leg shapeLegs assembled and paintedBase completedTop with a rustic finishFinished Table

Step 3

I wanted something special as a wall feature, so acquired some second hand doors. I repainted and then sanded them for a rustic finish, and then created a frame-surround out of timber and mouldings, and then a shelf for the top to put some plants and lights on.

Beautiful old doorPainted making my own chalk paintSanded back to create a rustic finishI created a frame and shelfThe finished ''door to nowhere''

Step 4

For the feature wall I wanted to champion a beautiful antique sideboard I'd acquired. So I made a feature mirror repurposing some old wrought iron door mats. To finish off the setting, I made some planter boxes and some bit chunky rustic candlesticks.

Firstly, paint the wrought iron matsI created a frame, shelf and corbelsI made planter boxesI made 6 chuncky rustic candlesticks on the latheBeautiful feature wall setting

Step 5

I finished off by making a wood stacker, wall planter and chunky rustic mirror and some alcove shelves.

WoodstackerWall PlanterRustic MirrorAlcove Shelving

Tools and materials

Materials used in the project:

• Various timber
• Cabots walnut interior stain 
• British Paints oil-based stain
• Skirting
• White paint
• Plywood
• Nails
• Screws
• Old wrought iron mats
• Old doors.

Tools used in the project:

• Mitre saw
• Table saw
• Band saw
• Pocket Hole Kit
• Router
• Drill
• Lathe.

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[Dave-1]

/Good evening @Poshrustic 

You know when you look at the thumbnail of a project and think "yeah that looks interesting" Then you open it up and BOOM!

Seriously your skill level is "High" I love how you have made all the things yourslef and re-used so much timber!

How did you go about restaining the beams? Was their an issue with going over the old stain?

The "legs" of that table thats what got my mind doing the astounding face lol How are they holding up? I really like the way you joined teh segmants together.

Dave

[Poshrustic]

Thanks @Dave-1 for your very kind and positive comments - its always nice to hear that someone appreciates your work.  I love the process of transforming a room or space.  The table is holding up well thankfully, and although it was very fiddly and intricate work, I was just driven by wanting the end result. I didn't have the right tools at the time to make the legs any other way, so literally cut each piece out with my jigsaw and glued them together...not sure I'd have the patience to do it again! 😶

Re-staining all the beams (i've done nearly a whole house now) was thankfully an easy project (apart being 3.5M up a scaffolding unit) as I didn't have to sand anything.  I picked up a very good tip from YouTube, (and am sorry that I can't remember the source to give kudos to them), which is if you use oil based black stain over a previously varnished finish, then the stain adheres.  I just had to time it right to wipe off the stain (depending on the temp of the room) so that enough stuck to change the colour, without it being totally black - it ended up being a lovely honey colour which i was very happy with, so good tip!

I've transformed much of our house now (and shed - not sure if you've seen the pub that i've posted here on the Workshop), but I will continue to 'have a go' as its all a big learning curve!

Wishing you a lovely Christmas!

Kind regards