My Mother's Buffet Table

I loved my mom's buffet table, but it has seen better days. She was getting rid of it, so I asked if I could have it. It had cracks and a lot of damage on top. The drawers did not open because the whole middle was warped in a downward slope.

I started by sanding- it's always good to get it down to a clean slate. It also helped me analyze the cracks that I had to repair.

 

Then I added some glue in some of the cracks, and patched the areas up with wood putty. Then, more sanding!

 

 

Here's a few before and after pictures of some of the very damaged areas.

 

Final pictures of the top stripped, repaired, and sanded.

 

NEXT: The Drawers and shelves

The middle had no support, so it was warping and distributing the weight unevenly onto the bottom drawer. Here are some pictures showing that the bottom of the drawer was coming apart because of the poor support and uneven weight from above.

 

So, I stripped the buffet of it's previous shelves and previous drawers. I repaired the middle post to create better support for the middle of the buffet. I then built new shelves and new drawers- I liked the key hole features that were on each drawer, so I decided to keep the face of each draw and just replace the surrounding wood.

 

 

FINALLY: After the drawers and shelves were created. I continued to sand and strip the piece to it's bare wood.

 

 

I then stained it with a dark stain and added polyurethane.

Then brought it in the house and put it to use!