Wood Shop: February 2014

Monday, February 24, 2014

ITS NOT ABOUT ME chair inspiration

Here are just a few of the before shots of the chairs that have been

repurposed, revamped, and made over for The Chairs For Charity Auction this Thursday night.

Without further ado,

here are photos of just 10 of the 20 finished chairs that you can bid on.

Claudines Chair

Mini Manor

Elinors Chair

Reids Chair

Brick and Mortar

hodge:podge

Nostalgic Nest

Robyns Vintage Nest

Ugly Duckling Transformations

Jentiques

To learn more about each chair or see before pictures I have provided

as many of the links to web sits as I could find under each picture.

Easy Door Frame Rot Repair

My future father-in-laws back door was starting to rot at the bottom and he asked me about it. He said he wanted to know if he needed a whole new door. I told him I could just patch it up with some epoxy putty and he looked at me a little funny. Once the job was done, he was pleasantly surprised at how good it looked and he was surely glad he didnt have to buy a new door.

I made a video on the method I used, maybe you could use it too!

Sunday, February 23, 2014

SHABBY CHIC ADDITION french bedroom cabinet

Found at an auction,

No one else seemed to want it but we did pay a fair price for it.

It looks pretty good here but this photo was taken after some nasty

broken chrome handles were removed and a good cleaning.

I found old newspapers from England laying in the drawers

I took advantage of the perfect timing and lined Sonjas Union Jack top drawer with them

days before she picked it up.

I enjoying working with color but its so pure to work with a distressed white finish.

I sprayed this cabinet in old white chalk paint

and brushed bright white chalk paint on the corner accents to cordinate with

the bright white I chose to use on the hardware.

Look at those legs,

they provide a fabulous space for a basket to sit underneath

Are you ready for a fun Sunday morning inspirational post.

We did some christmas shopping at a large local nursery

and I snapped lots of photos for all of you to get the holiday mood flowing.

So tomorrow morning grab your coffee or tea before sitting down and reading your email.

ONLY ONE COAT OF ANNIE SLOAN french nightstands

These nightstands were painted in ASCP and they only have one coat. I wanted to show how this

paint is perfect for creating a time warn finish, easily. All the furniture finishes so many of us

covet are very European and this paint just so happens to be European along with its creator.

I painted both cabinets with one coat of grey (custom mix) from top to bottom using a

2 inch brush. I took extra care to get a nice coat on the drawer faces but that is easy

because I always take my drawers out and paint them standing off to the side.

In many areas you get spots where your brush has left "see through marks", thats what Ill call them

for the purpose of this review. They are rough once dry and of course look like you missed a spot

but once you sand these smooth with a 220 grit paper they look to be original wear from years gone by.

The white accents are painted over the grey with a small artist brush. I like to take my time when

doing this and enjoy it. If you have a ball and claw foot to paint turn the piece upside down and get

a crisp line painted between the ball and claw to define it well.

If I were to add dark wax to these they would look like they

sailed across the ocean right from a French villa.

Heres the BEFORE and AFTER shot below.

A BED A BENCH AND A BIG BULB

I love this new pretty and curvy bench I built. Every time I walk by it I smile.

The last bench I built I fell in love with too but I managed to find a place to keep that one. We have

never had a place to sit down in the mudroom until now, but now Im constantly sitting in there.

Tips on how to build a bench using a bed frame can be read here:

http://blogspot.ca/2013/06/bench-buiding-tips.html

This curvy one is made with 2 headboards and 1 foot board. You can see the back and sides are made

from a matching foot and head board but the front underside also has parts of a French provincial

headboard. All three frames used to build this bench are made of solid maple, which is a wonderful

hard wood and offers great stability in furniture making.

The seat is vintage pine boards salvaged from some local farm shelving. Pine is a soft wood.

Softwoods come from coniferous trees such as cedar, fir, and pine.

I also salvaged an antique milk glass floor lamp and cleaned it up, painted it, and rewired it.

The metal base has been spray in a snow white oil paint that matches the milk glass shade.

It has a tri light switch, meaning it has three different light brightness.

It also has an oversized socket and came with an over sized bulb.

And it also has a regular sized adapter for regular sized bulbs.

UPDATING A BEDROOM what we did on labour day

During our Labour Day weekend George and I changed our bedroom area.

Above is how it looked before we started and below is us starting to move things around.

Oh the dust bunnies!!!

3 days later and all the furniture is in place but there is plenty still to do before I can show you it all.

Yes I painted the loveseat, and what an amazing difference it has made to the space.

Im also going back and forth fiinishing up the buffet and hutch from last week.

A table has come my way that I have grand plans for.

Anyone have some wonderfully beaten up, weathered lumber (2 x 6 or larger) that you want rid of?

A set of 4 chairs found their way into the back of Georges Van.

Im feeling a tad bit overwhelmed and I havent mentioned the other 3 projects on my plate.

There has been some great hardware added to the on-line shop that I found over the weekend

firstfinds etsy

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