Fast forward three years later, some of my kids are married and some have children, but we still don't have a place to sit and have a meal together.  I still don't have a place for a table, but I had an idea of turning our screened in porch into a dining room that can be used almost year round, thanks to Alabama weather.

  

I found the plans that I like on my favorite furniture plans website and set my husband to work building the second farmhouse table for the new farmhouse.   The plans copy a table from Anthropologie, which costs over $1000.00.  Who can afford that!  Mine came in just under &175.00.  

I chose a duck egg blue chalk paint for the bottom and Early American stain for the top with a dark wax finish.   I couldn't be happier with the outcome.  It measures just over nine feet long and will easily seat all of us as we continue to grow.

I am constantly amazed at the talent my husband shows as he builds things for me.  He always seems to know exactly what I want.  Now to build matching benches.