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Showing posts with label trash. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Baby room shelving and storage

I found this book shelf flipped upside down in a ditch, so I hauled it home.  First thing I did was cut the feet off.  The wood on the feet seemed weak and split, and since this was going into a baby room I needed it to be more sturdy.  I went to Home Depot and bought fat chunky square feet to attach to the bottom.  I lightly sanded the entire thing and started painting with a satin color.  I took the thin backing off before I started the project.  The backing I painted a very shiny silver color along with the feet.  I also used Valspar antiquing glaze and finished it with a coat of clear coat.


I put two coats of paint on this project.

I put all my projects on these plastic stilts to keep everything up off the floor.  You could use blocks or anything, its really helpful.

Using the Valspar I was able to give it an older look.


The finished product turned out great.  It now sits in my sweet nephews bedroom filled with baby supplies!

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

My Deck set made from Trash, paint, and pallets.

                           My Deck set I have made from garbage chairs, and pallet table.

4 chairs from someones garbage pile (painted), pallet table I made and painted, I did buy the umbrella.  Vases were from a thrift shop, and round basket plate on table is from thrift shop I spray painted.  You can see I drilled out the holes for the umbrella off to the corner of the pallet table.  I wanted it to be a little different instead of the traditional umbrella down the center look.  I like it.

Found four of these old red scraped up chairs in someones front yard for trash.  (my treasure)

Started painting the chairs in my barn, and decided to paint each chair a different color.

a finished chair in gray, with a pillow to accent.
Coffee table, made from two pallets, painted the entire thing with a brown stain and then painted the top boards blue, and painted some end pieces blue.