Finishing

High-Gloss White Dining Table

A rectangular dining table with curved legs, finished in an off-white so glossy that the shutters and the ceiling come back off the top.

High-Gloss White Dining Table
The finished piece. No as-received photograph is published for this one — see below.

In short This entry shows a rectangular dining table with a thick square-edged top and curved legs, finished in an even off-white with a gloss high enough that the shutters, the ceiling and the light of the room reflect in the surface. No before-and-after comparison is published for this piece: the job archive holds a photograph of a coated panel on the workshop bench and photographs of the finished table in place, but no photograph of the table as it arrived.

What the photograph shows

A rectangular dining table stands in a dining room in front of a pair of louvered shutters, its chairs still sealed in factory plastic. The top is thick, with a square edge and a slight round-over, and it is finished in an even off-white with no visible seam, brush track or grain telegraphing through it. The gloss is high enough that the slats of the shutters, the ceiling, and the light of the room all come back off the surface in a long reflection down the middle of the table. The legs are curved, splaying out from under the top toward the floor, and they are finished in off-white too, reading a shade cooler than the top where the light does not come off them.

Why there is no before-and-after here

The record for this job does not contain a photograph of the table as it arrived — so this entry does not claim one. What the archive does hold from partway through the work is this:

A pale, evenly coated panel with open grain texture resting on a workshop bench
A panel from this job on the workshop bench, coating already laid down and the open grain still reading through it. This is work in progress, not a condition photograph — the archive files it as a before frame, but nothing in it shows the piece as it arrived.

That is an honest limit on what this entry can tell you. It shows a finished table and one frame from partway through the work, and it describes only what is in them: form, color, finish, and surface. Nothing here claims the age of the table, the wood it is built from, who made it, or what it is worth.

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Alberto's Furniture Refinishing is the workshop. It is where the stripping, the repair and the finishing happen, by hand, and where you book the work.

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