Crafty Crap: Dining table re-do

We bought our dining table about 5 years ago - I loved how it looked. It's counter-height, had a distressed paint job, and I liked the grooves on the top.

Fast forward five years.....I hated this table.

It was so "distressed" looking that it just seemed worn out, it was chipped everywhere, and I really hated the grooves in the top. Do you know how hard those are to keep clean?!?This is where K sits. She went through a phase where she banged her silverware on the top of the table.

So I decided to try refinishing it. My original plan was to figure out how to fill in the grooves and make it a solid top....I sacrificed the leaf (which we never used) to try different techniques. I finally gave up on filling in those darn grooves.

I painted the whole set (table and 8 chairs) with a high-gloss enamel paint. Soooooo much better.

Yea!!
Now I don't groan every time we sit down to eat!