THE Bench

It's done!  The Headboard Bench is finished and in place on my front porch.  Happiness!!

This won't be much of a tutorial since Gail over at  My Repurposed Life does it much better here.  In fact, we (ahem, my husband) followed her directions step by step which made it so easy!  At least, it sure looked easy from the sidelines :)

You'll remember we started with this...

Which quickly became this in the basement shop...

The sides are made of an old twin footboard that I had found months ago at the Goodwill.  Gail describes in detail how to build a box for your seat to rest on.  My husband got smart and bungeed (is that a word?) the headboard to a support post in our basement, thus keeping it stable while he worked.

Don't you just love the color of that pole?  Maybe I should do more in that color... Ha!

Before I knew it, the seat was filled out.  After a few hundred screws went in, or so it seemed, we carried it up to the 'studio' to be painted.

It was such a gorgeous day to paint!  Fall & Spring are my favorite seasons by far, especially living in Atlanta.  There was a nice breeze, sunny blue skies and neighbors out & about to chat with.  Perfection!

I'm a bit of a drippy painter.  Oh well.

The finished product.  Happy, happy!!  Notice, too, the old gate in the corner of my porch.  More on that later.

I LOVE it!!  Can't wait to start sitting there & watching my kids play in the yard.  Be on the lookout for that perfect headboard, and you can have a bench of your own!

thanks for visiting!
kathie

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