lovely clients of anna baskin lattimore’s were hoping to use their old coffee table – the perfect size and shape for the room and their family – in their new home. it just needed a fresher, lighter look. after stripping the varnish and priming it, i added layers of paint (anna’s excellent choices: pratt & lambert’s chalk gray, #11.32, rubbed back over benjamin moore’s bleeker beige, #hc.80) and then tinted glaze and varnish for a little depth and protection. here is the before, the not-yet-accessorized after, and a few details: