You Can Do It Too
You could call me crazy – I like to think of it as making use of what we have – if there is any value in something – chances are I will find it. Then I will slather some paint on it.
When you visit, and we are sitting by the fire pit with a Muletini – I will tell you about the chairs we are sitting on….
Most couples go to dinner or see a movie for entertainment. We create and build stuff. It is how we spend our free time. We get dressed in our finest paint stained clothes and begin our latest creation. As crazy as it sounds – it is our entertainment! It is our drug. And we are both addicted!
Typically I am not into antiques. But this Hoosier cabinet was the perfect solution for our storage issues in the cabin kitchen. Back when the cabin was our weekend retreat, the kitchen only had one upper cabinet, and we used that for storing food. Our 2 cups, 4 bowls, 4 plates and some mismatched glassware were beautifully showcased in our newly refurbished Hoosier cabinet. It was the crown jewel of that kitchen.
There were only two things I loved about this old door, the arched glass windows. Both of them. The minute I saw it I envisioned a gorgeous vintage door with faux stained glass in stunning ambers and frost.
How could we have not seen this? We walk up and down these steps several times a day. Our guests have been up and down these steps dozens of times. They have been so kind to not mention the ugliness of all that splintery wood on our banister. But now I think I understand the requests for the bandaids.
It was a combination of rough and splintered 2×4’s, some 2×2’s and pieces of scrap fence panel.
