Refinish Fail!

Remember this?

I took a few inches off the bottom, stained the top and it was looking much better.

I then had a great idea!  Add some pretty paper to the back wall of the shelf...

So now I get to practice my scraping skills.

New Furniture

Found this at the thrift store yesterday and yes, I am happy.  It will be perfect for my current project-well, after some work. It's a twin headboard now but it's raison d'etre is about to change.

I had to bring it home tied to the stop of my car with twine-thanks to the guys at the store.  Most things will fit in the back of my little car but this was just big enough and oddly shaped enough that it had to ride on top.  I should have taken a photo of that.

Had to wait for the sons to get home from school so they could unload it.  Younger son's comment when he saw the piece:  "So, you decided we needed another craptastic piece of furniture in the house?" 

One can never too much craptastic furniture! Especially if it's only $2.95.

Christmas in February-an old project

One thing about being sick in bed, once you can stay awake, you can catch up on things.  I've read the entire Internet in the last 6 days.   No, really.

I do feel a bit better today, if only my head belonged to someone else and my bones didn't hurt.  But, the cough is much better!  Things are looking up.

In spending lots of time with my computer and trying to get some order to my photos, I realized I never shared this project.  Remember when we tore out the massive adobe hearth that ate the living room?

 

What was I thinking?

Love these guys!

The wall after plastering.

 

And finally this.  Wow, that tree is bright!

We needed something to store the media center computer, DVDs, game stuff but it needed to be narrow.  I tried a couple of different options but in the end and old wall cabinet fit the bill.  So, we built a box for it to sit on and I painted in a nice gray/green.  I experimented with a copper look door.

Acckkkk!

Finally, chalkboard paint makes it less obtrusive and adds some fun.

So, that's it.  Except the top still isn't finished so I'm using a piece of burlap until I figure that out.

 Merry Christmas!

It happened at Goodwill

I fell in love...again...with another chair.  (I don't usually name furniture but I'm calling this guy Don Draper.  I have this whole Mad Men/mid-century thing going on.  Seems appropriate.) After first seeing it, I knew I was a goner but kept telling myself that we definitely didn't need one more piece of furniture.  I kept sneaking back to see it, sit in it, measure it.  Every time I pulled up to the GW, my heart would race.  Would it still be there?  Had someone taken my heartthrob? One day I walked in and it had been moved-ACK!  But I found it and sat in it again, and measured it again and looked at it from all different angles...and walked away, again.

Then on Sunday, I got finished with work early and told myself I'd stop by just one more time, and if Don was still there, he was MINE!  And he was and best of all, he was half-price!

I may not do anything to this guy except a good cleaning.

And the media cabinet that this is perched on, I'll tell you more about that later.