From This Old Chair

Warm weather is here but is it here to stay?! Time to get in a quick project that I have wanted to get to for years.  It goes with my love of old chairs. Hey who am I kidding chairs period.  I was going to repair/refinish a chair I found tossed aside but it was beyond repair so I saved some pieces with a project in mind.

It went together exactly how I envisioned it would. With the laundry/mud room re-done it would look perfect painted black but to lose the old paint was almost a crime. I decided to do almost  a dry brush of black paint which turned out perfect for it let the older paint show through. Now I have a key problem, that being that my keys are never ever where they are supposed to be when I go to get them.  Solution was simple I thought ~add something to hang keys from.  I wanted uniqueish (ahhh a new urban dictionary word!).  Tried bending some old silver plate teaspoons...they broke.  Next forks....after trying to bend the tynes into hearts it looked more like the forks had been through some horrid dishwasher war and lost. So the shelf sat waiting to be finished for weeks until a broken faucet came into play.  My mother's faucet needed to be replaced so hubby and I went over to change it out for her.  As usual one thing led to another and a pipe leak sent me down to my fathers workshop in search of a washer.  As I rummaged around I found them. Not sure why he had them or even how old they are but they were perfect! I never thought I would be using tuning pegs from a guitar as the key holder part. I think my mother thinks I have lost my mind but I love it! Thanks Dad! Love you and miss you!

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