Updated Pool Table Makeover
Updated Pool Table Makeover
contributed by Fun With Nancy
Pool anyone?
I mixed 1/4 cup glaze + 1/4 cup Black Walnut water based stain on a foam plate and painted it on. Then I got a plastic grocery store bag, waded it up and just started jabbing it until I found a pattern I liked. Do this on a trial area first. I always use scrap wood and play with finishes. If you really want to see a video of this technique go to you tube and search faux painting.
When it dries, apply one coat of polyacrylic spray (I use minwax). When that dries we can add the hang up and shading. Where almost done!
Once the glaze/stain dries and you have applied one coat of polyacrylic you can now add hang-up and some shading for depth.
use undiluted stain, in this case the Black Walnut water based stain. Apply it on the rope trim, wipe off. Then paint a thin layer around the appliques and using a cheep dry paint brush, start jabbing the stain to “smear it” or soften the look.
All highlighted and smudged up. If you try to do this without the one coat of polyacrylic between the glaze/stain step I assure you, you will regret it! Major mistake!!!! You will remove the previous step and end up with a mess! But look at it from the point of view that you get to start over and learn! :(. Do yourself a big favor! Don’t skip that step 🙂
See how much depth you get. I also wipe some of the stain over the applique to give it hang-up. Notice how this brings out all of the detailed work on the appliques.
The lion head and swags just pop with detail once the hang-up is applied. Simply spray the last 2 coats of polyacrylic to give it a long lasting finish. I used Minwax clear gloss polyacrylic spray.
This was actually the hardest step of all. Each side rail has 3 rail sights (used by the pool player to line up his/her shot) and I had to cover them with tape. Once they are painted the only way to get the tape off is to cut it out. OMG! this sucked!!!! But once I got them all off it was easy again. All I had to do when I applied the glaze/stain was to wipe the sights clean with a damp paper towel (while the glaze was wet, so you still have to be very careful).
side rails with sights all cut out
Once the side rails, ball pockets, and felt are added the table is done!
>Amazing! What a fantastic job!
>truly amazing!!! looks totally professional hard to belive what it started as
>wow. I'm seriously speechless! But kudos for using SW paint… I work for them! 🙂
>What a amazing transformation! Now lets play some pool!
>What a great transformation. Who knew it could look so good.
>Totally stunned by this project! You make it look so easy! Amazing job!
>Um….that is amazing!!!!!!
>Beautiful transformation! You should be so very proud of yourself. You did an awesome job!
>Thank you so much! This is a real honor for me!
Happy Holidays
Nancy
>Fantastic!!!!
>WOW! That's beautiful….and def one of a kind.
>OMG what an amazing unique makeover. Truly amazing well done 🙂
>That is totally awesome!! I have to show this to hubby, he'd love to build a pool table.
>I really like what you did with the pool table. I was skeptical in the beginning but you really turned the veneer around. It's so often my husband thinks bringing things that are 'ugly' into our house is okay if they are a good deal. Looks like you created a win-win here. The stone look is awesome and I am really impressed with the look of the veneer after. Veneer screams profanities at me so I usually avoid it at all costs. Way to tackle a LARGE project and complete it with finesse.
Wow, such an amazing difference, excellent work, very inspiring!
Could you please explain how you changed the pockets? Did you purchase new ones? Thanks
This is very good and creative! Thanks for sharing!