Every now and then you need to take a little time to go around your house and decide what accent furniture pieces you have need a little more love and which ones may be closing in on the end of their life in your home. For some pieces of furniture, like console tables, they get a lot of use and touch time and may need a little sprucing up to remain in good standing in your home.

If you have a console table that has been used a lot over the years, it is probably showing it. All that use and those hands and things sliding across the surface has lead to chips and dings in the finish that make it just look not very attractive anymore. But, what if the table itself seems to be doing all right? It’s just not pretty. Maybe it’s time to repaint it and give it a new life. Repainting a console table is not nearly as difficult as you may think.

Let’s start with getting rid of the old. You need to remove any paint or finish that is already on the table. The easiest way to do this is to head to your local home improvement store and look for some paint remover. Quite often, you can find a paint remover that you can literally pour on the surface of the console table and watch the old paint lift up and be easy to wipe away. If there are some stubborn spots you may have to do a little scraping to get those last pieces off.

This is one of those jobs you want to take your time with, as you want to make sure you get all of the pieces of paint removed.

Once you have accomplished this it’s time to repaint.

Start by deciding what color of paint you want your table to be. Now it’s time for a primer coat. Put on the first coat of paint and then make sure to allow the paint an adequate amount of time to dry. One of the largest mistakes people make is trying to put on too many coats of paint very quickly. Instead, step away from the console table once you have put on that first coat of paint. If you can, leave the table for least 24 hours to make sure it’s completely dry before applying a second coat.

Depending on the color of paint you have selected, the color of the wood, and the final color you want to see you are going to keep putting one coat at a time until it has become the color you wanted it to be.

Once you have the paint looking right you are not quite done yet. Keep in mind, while you do have coats of paint on the console table there is still wood underneath. Wood needs to be protected from things like heat, cold and liquid. Therefore, you may want to put a sealer coat over the paint to give your wood extra protection.

If you’re like most people, you take an inventory of the various pieces of furniture you have in your home from time to time. Think about your accent tables. You may look at them and ask ‘do they still fit with the décor style you are moving towards in the house?’ Are they still sturdy enough to do their job? Are there any dents, dings or stains that are making them unsightly?

While some of these things have definite answers that you can’t do anything about, there are others that you do have a little control over – like the scratches and stains.

Let’s start with scratches.

For the most part, scratches on accent furniture tables are small and come from something as simple as a person’s ring sliding across the surface of the table. In this case all you need to do is likely look in your pen and marker drawer, find a color that is very close to your table and color in the scratch. You may want to use a cloth to rub the ink in to make it blend in a little more.

If you’re really lucky, you may even have some stain that’s the same color as your accent tables in the garage, a little dab of that, rubbed in with a cloth, and the table will look as good as new.

Now onto the harder stuff – stains.

The most common stains that are spotted on accent tables are water stains. As soon as someone in the house has a glass in their hand, all of your accent tables and the rest of your furniture are in harms way.

It seems many people don’t think about the condensation that is building on the outside of their glasses when they set them down on your furniture. Perhaps they live in a home with only plastic furniture. Whatever the reason, they don’t think about the fact that the condensation on that glass is going to go down, thanks to gravity, and try to sink into your wood tabletops.

The longer their glass is there, and still condensing, the worse that white ring is going to be once they move the glass. To think, all of this could have been avoided if they just used a coaster. Now it’s too late. Or maybe not.

The key to getting rid of water stains on your accent tables is to be patient. You need to let the spot completely dry before you try to fix it. If you act too quickly, you could seal water in the wood, which is only going to make matters worse in the long run.

Once you are sure the spot has completely dried, you need to go to the fridge and get some mayonnaise. Yes, you read that right, mayonnaise. The important thing is to make sure you have real mayonnaise, not some of those other items. Use a soft cloth and rub the mayonnaise into the wooden table top. The oil from the mayonnaise will sink into the wood and nourish it, making it look new again.

Author Jennifer Akre is an owner of many niche online stores providing consumers with products and information relating to furnishing and decorating indoor and outdoor living spaces. No matter what you what to do, whether it is refreshing the look of your living room or building on outdoor spot ideal for taking in the weather, there is plenty of helpful advice to help make that happen. Today, she shares her insight when investing in lavish console tables and functional accent tables. Each would be a great purchase.

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