I finally put the finishing touches on my salvaged wood shelf/table and I think it really compliments our space. I love how the wood stain made the grain pop and the polyurethane lends a finished look. The hardest part of the whole project (and the most expensive) was the piping; it took a lot longer to assemble and tweak then I thought it would. If you had your own pipe threader you could really save your self a lot of money by buying longer pipe, cutting it, and threading it yourself. They really hike up the prices on the shorter threaded pieces.
Over the course of this project I discovered a small outlet store near us that specializes in selling reclaimed building materials. By going to a store like that i'm sure you could save even more money on piping and wood. Maybe there is store like that near you? We are going to check it out this weekend. Happy Friday!
-E
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This looks AWESOME guys! We've still got to finish sanding and then staining this really nice cherry wood we got to finish our fauxdenza, but I've been paralyzed when it comes to choosing the stain. Love what you used for the table. What brand did you pick and was it just labeled 'dark walnut'?
Ace hardware had a deal going on all ACE brand stain so I picked up a bunch of different stains. I went with "Walnut" on this project. It's oil-based stain with polyurethane in it too but I added another layer of polyurethane at the end because I wanted more gloss. I would recommend looking into Teak oil for your cherry wood. Thanks for the love!
-E-
Awesome, thanks so much!
Nice Job! It turned out awesome.
Thanks!
any chance there is a tutorial in the wings for this? because it's freaking awesome!
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