A little box remake...

Hi Everyone!  Happy Friday!  I want to share a little remake with you that I did.  I made this box/shelf thing a couple of years ago.

It has been sitting on it's side on my shelf holding a few knickknacks but I haven't been happy with it.  So I reworked it a bit.

 And this is what it turned into.

 I started out painting over the black with a quick coat of ASCP in Old Ochre.  But I wasn't happy with it.

So I put a top coat of ASCP in Old White.  Ahhhh.....much better.

 Then I took these old drawer pulls that came off the cabinets that I remade as my kitchen island and painted them with ASCP in Old White.

And then I distressed it.  It's hard to see here but the black and Old Ochre are peaking through the Old White.  I think it helps to make it look like an older piece.

 And then I added the drawer pulls to the sides.

 And now instead of it being on it's side, it's sitting like a tray.

 And it can hold more pretties than it ever did while it was on it's side.

 It will be much more useful this way.

 How would you have remade this box?

I like it so much better now.  I think I'll put it on my dining room table.  So what are your weekend plans?  I will be braving the cold and working a bit in the shop.  I have a couple of projects that I want to finish but it means shop time.  I hope you have a great weekend.  Thanks for stopping by.

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Cream bench...

Hi Everyone!  Happy Sunday!  I wanted to show you a bench I made for a relative.  There were 12 surviving siblings in my grandfather's family and one of his sister's daughter (my mom's cousin) bought a bench from me previously for one of her daughters and ordered this bench for one of her other daughters.  Are you confused yet?  She wanted a cream colored bench like the other one she got.  So this is what I came up with.

 To me it has a more primitive look to it, unlike the other benches I make.  My uncle Bill had given me this  headboard this fall and I knew when I saw it that this is the bench it would go with.  Did I mention that my mom's cousin ordered this back in the late spring, but she didn't want it until December.  So I put it off while I worked on everything else until it was almost December.

 I forgot to take pictures of the original headboard.  I found portions of spindles to made the arms.  And I painted it with Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint in Old Ochre.

Then I waxed it with clear wax and added the saying using black paint.  I have a stencil that I used for this.  It's the same one I use on all the large benches, but since it's smaller only part of it fits.  I delivered this and my mom's cousin loved it.  I sure hope her daughter does too. 

And on a sad note, the last of my grandfather's brothers passed away this week and I'll be going to the visitation later today.  He was 89.

And today, my nephew Ridge heads out for Marine Boot camp.  I wish him the very best!  And I'll miss him!

Well, thanks for stopping by.