70's gothic dining table DIY rehab

We bought this table about ten years ago for $50, it was not in great shape but the style of the table was just too cool to pass up.

It had cracks in the legs and chunks of the wood veneer top missing. This was one of those projects I said I was going to do every spring and never did.

It was stripped and sanded and then given lots of woodfiller. That was the main reason I painted the table, staining was not possible with all the damage to the wood.


The table was taken apart and all of the pieces were given 2-3 coats of water based black paint and a coat of polyurethane. The top received three coats of poly.

The gold was painted in between the black and the top coat. The chair in the background is one of our mismatched chairs. They will be stripped and stained with an ebony stain to keep the look of the wood but tie them into the set better.

I think it will also look much better when we get the floors redone in wood to replace the vinyl tile.