Pete and Jodi's Latest Project

Original post author: Jodi

Okay, so for those of you who know Ryan’s parents, you know we like DIY projects and here is one that we are currently taking on. These are pictures of a 8 foot long oak trestle table that we just bought on a local Craig’s List type of website that shows up in my fb. We were actually driving home from the Newport Folk Festival pulling our camper when I noticed there was a estate sale going on in a really cool old house in a town near our home. In one of the pictures posted was a long table with a ton of stuff on it. I didn’t even look at what was on the table, I immediately saw the table and thought that it is cool and something we can turn into my dream farm table. So after many back and forths on fb I was promised the table if I could get it by 5:00 pm.

Well, as you can see we got it. This was an estate sale put on by the children of the late owners of this house. They grew up in this house and told us about the happy memories there. Happy memories around this table in particular. One sister in particular was so sad watching all her parents belongs going out the door she could only watch us from the upstairs window as we loaded it into my husbands truck. That made me feel sad, but when the other sister told me she was happy it was going to us because of our excitement getting it and our plans to update it and make it a happy gathering place in our house. We exchanged phone numbers and I promised I would text her pictures of it finished and in our dining room.

It was extremely heavy so Pete, who by the way is extremely handy, proceeded to take the trestle legs off so we could handle moving it. So now it is here in my dining room not really put together yet, just the top sitting on the legs. It is so heavy that it is not going anywhere. We need to figure out if we want to cut in down and make it a bit shorter. A shorter table would probably fit the room better, but I love the idea of it fitting so many people around it like it is. That we still have to decide. After we decide whether to shorten it or not, then it goes back out to the garage and we start to strip it of the dark finish. Then I think we will have to bleach it to get it the light color I am hoping for. We are also debating whether we should redesign the trestle legs a bit. The way they look now I think looks very gothic.

So we will periodically post our progress as we tackle this big heavy project. I am hoping to qualify for a Comet.cool patch at the end of this Ryan.