I want to completely cover the top of my kitchen table. It's a fabulous old table but the top is yellow and that doesn't match my decor lately. I though I had it all sorted by putting astroturf across the top.. but it is hard to clean.
Any ideas for a textured table top?

try a mosaic, with different tiles or broken mirrors?

if you really want to use astroturf, maybe you could lay it over the table with a sheet of glass over the top? that might be expensive though...

candi

That would be expensive.. but so cool!
I could make a whole new table with that idea but the glass would have to be layed inside the table with the grass below... wow that would be a big prodject!

Tiles might work too.. hmmmm maybe somehting LIKE tiles glued onto the table.
i don't know yet.

Hi!
This isn't *exactly* what you were asking about, but I've covered a table with fun picture cards and then used a product called "1000 Coats of Varnish" to cover it - it sort of buries whatever you put below it in a clear hard varnish - it looks like glass, and it dries clear and smooth and easy to clean. I bet it would look really cool with astroturf underneath it! (However, you'd probably have to put some sort of containing border on the table, the varnish stuff goes on as a liquid and would run all over the floor otherwise!) I bought the varnish stuff at Pearl Paint (there are stores in NY and Philly that I know of) but you could probably look in local craft stores for it.
Good luck!
Amy

Wow I like the sound of that
thanks
I'm going to Pearl today

I'll see what else I can stick in the stuff

Hi!

Just wanted to pass on a tip for pouring that acrylic varnishy stuff. Make sure the table is level (not just all the legs on your floor area, but really make sure it's level), or the liquid will GUSH OFF ONE SIDE. Also, use a plastic tarp or trash bags or you'll end up basically gluing an old bedsheet to the floor like I did. Or make some kind of lip with tape like someone else suggested to solve the whole drippy problem.

I covered a junky Parsons table with NY subway maps and then poured the clear stuff on top. After all the mess, it came out pretty good. Then you can set wet glasses, candles, whatever on it, even wipe it off. My husband tried to get me to just cover it with Contact paper, but I had to go and make a big production.

I was thinking of covering another table with thin Astroturf too, but I was going to cut out flowers (and maybe even pictures of worms!) from used books and stick it to the "grass" before pouring the clear stuff on it. Maybe you could get plastic bugs or just paint it and trap anything in there that you like to look at: postcards, beer coasters, bottle caps, spare change, playing cards, conversation hearts, conffetti, glitter, refrigerator magnets, snapshots, whatever theme fits your other decor.

That goo is fun to whip up.

This is not textured I know, but I have a mustard yellow table top (from the 70'?) in my kitchen. Contact paper works so great. Spill something, it wipes right off. And when it gets old and yucky looking rip it off and put on a different pattern of contact paper. (Only prob is that it is kind of sticky when you pull it off)

wait, so this goo stuff you guys are talking about isnt like a paint-on, modge podge kinda deal, but some sort of resin that will actually encase 3-d objects? hmmmmm.......that could make for some really cool projects.