I need a nest of coffee tables and want them to tone with my new fire surround which is dark cherry. I see lots of nice tables in beech or oak (I don't like the style of most pine tables). Could I re-colour them - or have it done professionally? Can anyone point me in any useful direction please.
Can I hijack this thread and ask the purpose of nests of tables? I've seen them a lot in catalogs, and occasionally in other people's houses (e.g. my mum's!), but I've never understood the point of them.
I've never seen them 'deployed' - only nested. Are they meant to be deployed? When? How? Why??
Thanks!
Scatter them around the living room to support tea and cakes within easy reach of the comfy chairs, then put them away afterwards so you don't fall over them?
When the Vicar comes to tea they are meant to be deployed by his chair to allow him easy access to his plate of cucumber sarnies and cup (not mug of course) of tea. He can sit upright on the chair (so as not to strain his corset) and rest the teacup when speaking.
The lady of the house can sit quivering in fear throughout this ceremony knowing the labrador is going to come in any minute now and demolish the lot or Fluffy their well bred cat will be pursued through the house by next doors Tom achieving exactly the same effect.
Its the Hammer House of Horror without having to go to the pictures.
As you don't already have them, why not find someone who is making the things and have them coloured to order ? It's more expensive than buying of fthe shelf, but it will probably be cheaper than having something re-coloured and certainly a better job.
You could even have them made fro you, in cherry.
OTOH, matching colours in cherry is always a bit of a lottery.
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We have a nest of side tables, which have never been nested. There is one each besides my wife and my armchairs and one with the phone on it. They've never been nested. They just happened to be the right size & colour.
John, why not break the mould and have bits of wooden furniture of different woods around the room? I must be an anarchist, I have oak, yew, and mahogany around the front room and it looks ok to me(!)
jim
IMHO Beech rather than oak. Strip off the finish,stain the wood and then re-polish.
Getting an exact match takes a lot of experience so you might be best to find a local contract sprayer. Try under 'French Polishing' in the yellow pages (Unless you live around Kings Cross)
They might breed and generate a ruck of coffee tables
I'm not sure I'd rush into that. The last little table I had turned out to be an MDF top with a 3mm layer of ply stuck on it. The MDF was painted a bit streakily before varnishing... so if OP strips his table, he might find theres a fair bit more work required than he bargained for.
This is the diy group, why not make a cherry table? Or use whitewood and paint it pink before staining: paint on, then wipe it off, just like liming. Dark stain then gets you that cherry colour. A bit icky, but it works well, if you cant afford cherry and dont like pine.
Regards, NT
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