New Old coffee table redo

The coffee table is 95% done.  I still want to put some sort of final coat on it to seal it. It's just stained wood on top at the moment.

Here is the coffee table in my living room.

And if you remember, here is what the coffee table looked like to begin with before I did anything to it.

BEFORE

Here is the coffee table after much sanding, stripping, painting, staining, hammering, etc.

AFTER

Here is the detail.

I tried to distress the table some. I hammered and nailed spots onto the top and I took sandpaper and scissors and scraped some of the white paint off the bottom.

Here is how I refinished the coffee table. I did not follow any guidelines or research how to refinish this, but  I will do things a little different next time.

• Put varnish remover on the top part, scrape off all varnish
• Sand the top down to the wood where there is  no stain or anything
• hammered and roughed up the top some to distress it
• Applied dark walnut colored stain to top
• Lightly sanded the bottom part
• Used a primer
• Removed the wood that was attached to the legs
• Painted 2 coats of Olympic Delicate White

Next time I will put some poly on the sanded wood before I stain so it will not absorb so dark into the wood and will go on more even.  I will put the varnish remover on much thicker so I won't have to keep going back and stripping it so many times.  Will be prepared with the correct type of sandpaper grit next time, too.

I think the coffee table now fits perfect into the look of my living room.