Since we moved in we’d been wanting to buy one of those pine workbenches they sell at places like builders warehouse and do it up for the kitchen. We decided on painting the base in white enamel and staining and varnishing the top.
As you can see, before:
After:
I’m quite happy with the difference, it’s made the kitchen feel far more structured.
arbitraryuser 
Very very nice. 🙂 I like it.
T