Free Furniture! Whoopie!

Now that I had created a headboard for our guest bedroom. on the ranch, I was on a hunt for furniture to fill the room. At our neighborhood annual garage sale, I struck gold! My neighbor offered up the piece pictured here for FREE! There was great debate as to whether I should be "refinishing" these pieces or "painting" them. Much to my fathers chagrin (who believes painting over any wood is a crime punishable by law) I went with painting. After all, I was looking to match the existing "door-headboard."

All the hardware came from Van Dyke Restoration. An incredible company with an extensive catalog of period relevant hardware and refinishing tools for any project. I went with 1940's milk glass drawer pulls. Post for specifics.

New Life to an Old Room

Back to the ranch...we inherited with the purchase of our home a 1970's dining room set. The site of which was so ugly, no one, would even bother to remove it from the house. Because we were poor (and would have no where else to sit, if we trashed it) we kept it.

It lasted about 2 years in it's original heinous state before I got my mc'crafter hands on it. After some careful conversation with my friends at the Benjamin Moore Paint Barn, and a visit to Frank the Upholsterer...I no longer eat dinner on the set of the 'Wonder Years'