Modern Bedrooms: Farmhouse Table and Dining Room Makeover

Over the last few months, we've been slowly but surely updating our old wallpapered & white carpeted dining room to fit our style, and I think we're finally almost there! Here's a picture of the room the day we moved into the house. We loved the space and windows, but the rest had seen better days.

We knew the look we were going for, but didn't have any furniture big enough to fill out the room. After some searching online we decided to build a huge 8 person farmhouse table, which all in cost just under $150! We used plans from Shanty-2-Chic and modified them slightly by making the table wider, planing the top planks of wood with a handheld planer, and putting the table together using lag bolts to add an industrial touch.
We first assembled the top using pocket holes.

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Then sanded everything down nice and smooth. This process took quite some time, but is completely worth it to get a nice even table top!

Next we put together the base according to the plans but using our lag bolts. Pre drilling the hole made this step go by surprisingly quick!

We put the whole thing together, stained it with Minwax's Special Walnut, added several coats of semi-gloss polyurethane, and moved it (slowly- she's a heavy one!) into the room.
Here's a peek at what the dining room is looking like today!

We also added shiplap to the bottom of the walls, and painted the rest in Benjamin Moore's Hale Navy. The floors got replaced with a dark bamboo, we added an easy DIY floating shelf to the wall, and a new light fixture to top it all off.