Antique Window finds New Life as Picture Frame.
June 28, 2011
This was an antique, 8-pane window I came across at a local antique store. It was white, with a layer of dark green somewhere beneath. Seven out of the eight panes were intact and it had been marked down to $8. EIGHT DOLLARS! I was ecstatic and immediately carried my find to the counter.
After a good coat of flat, antique white paint, I distressed the window by scraping away the top layers of paint strategically around the piece and letting the dark green show through. The window panes were a strange size, but I was able to order several pictures just larger than needed and trim them down. I used window glaziers to hold the pictures in place, tapping them in gently with my hammer. A painting hanger on the back finished her out. I think it turned out stunningly and plan to add letter blocks with our initials to the empty spot on the frame! Not to shabby for an $8 window and a little time!
Antique Furniture or Furniture Reupholstery
June 14, 2011
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Repurposed Antique Medicine Cabinet
June 14, 2011
We recently began renovating the one (yes, one!) bathroom in our 1890s farm house. It is singular, yes, but what our home lacks in quantity of bathrooms, it more than makes up for in size!!! It’s downright huge…as in we could easily add a queen size bed to the center of the bathroom with enough room to walk around comfortably. You know, if ever there were need for a bed in the bathroom… Anyway. We removed the old sink and 1980s medicine cabinet from the small part of our bath which houses the toilet. We replaced the terrible industrial-looking sink with a pretty pedestal one, but there was left a gaping hole where the medicine cabinet once was.
Original Cabinet.
Well, one of my favorite stores is in the tiny town of Nappanee, IN, where I live. They’re only open once a month, but I always find my best deals there. It just so happens last month I located an antique medicine cabinet. It was the perfect size and just waiting to be rescued. Even better, it was marked down from $35 (a good deal, but still enough to make my husband scoff) to $15!!! No scoffing allowed at that price! So we took her home and began the process of giving her a new life.
This was a simple repurpose. We scraped off some of the old paint chips, the ones that would flake off easily, but kept the others. I also did not sand the glossy paint that was on the interior of the piece, as I wanted the effect of that paint beneath the white I painted it. The box for the cabinet itself is solid lapboard, so it has great, natural creases. I painted the entire front and interior with an antique white. Once it dried, I scraped the edges and corners with a metal paint scraper to remove some of the fresh white paint. I also removed some of the paint in the exterior to allow the glossy tan to show through, and did the same over the old paint chips on the front. It offers a lot of depth and interest to the piece.
After hanging it with cabinet screws, the antique medicine cabinet was ready to fill. It looks like it has been there all its life. I think it may have found ‘HOME’ again!
Welcome to Furniture Repurposing.com!
June 14, 2011
Thank you for visiting Furniture Repurposing.com, the site where we celebrate the variety of creations available through breathing new life into old furniture. We LOVE finding great deals on vintage furniture and repurposing it to be new and beautiful again! Check out our page for current and past projects, our links to fellow repurposers, and great tips and resources for doing it yourself!
I love to search yard sales, antique stores, Goodwill and the Salvation Army, Estate sales and flea markets for fun objects that are looking for a new take on life! It’s amazing what a coat of paint, some new covers or simply a new purpose can do for something someone neglected as useless long ago! We’ve found that anything goes in our 1890s farmhouse. We love to see what we can come up with and welcome you to make this journey with us!
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