Refinished Bar

Here is another DIY refinishing project. My mom and I found this old TV console/small buffet at a garage sale for $10. It was very 70's looking with the lattice screen in the doors and we really wanted to update the piece and give it a classier feel. The photo below is the before, after it was sanded and one screen removed.

The piece came with a cool marble insert on the top of it so we thought this would make a great bar. Covering it with a TV seemed silly, and it's not quite long enough to fit today's large flat screen TV's. My mom was looking to get rid of a large china cabinet and needed to move her china into a kitchen cabinet that was holding all the bar essentials. This piece was the perfect size to become the bar and fit all the bottles and some other accessories.

We stained the wood with a cherry stain, the same as the end table from a previous post. Polyurethane was applied after the stain dried to give it a nice sheen and protection. The screens were replaced with glass to showcase the items inside the bar. To give the piece and the items inside an extra pop, we painted the back red on the inside.

I LOVE how the bar turned out. I must admit, I'm a little jealous my mom gets to show it off in her house. I might just have to take it someday, or I guess start hitting the garage sales to redo my own!