We have been hard at work over the last week, cutting, sanding and painting to create our new best loved item. For a while my favourite site has been Ana White. She is a genius and at last we have had a chance to try our hands at one of her knock-offs!
So here it is - step by step - our brand new parson's style shelf.
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| Pieces cut, joined and ready to be made into shelves |
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| shelves all made up (a little wobbly but looking good) |
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| and finished! no longer wobbly and nice and white! |
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| a close-up of the distressed edges We made it slightly taller than the plans to get it to more of a console height. We played with paint finishes and decided that we would go with stained edges and white acrylic paint over that. We sanded down the edges to give a worn look and a little shabby chic. |
We are so desperate for storage but I didn't want to load it up and ruin it's lines - we will be looking for baskets to increase storage and keep it neat.
(The table we are working on was our first project - folding tressle legs with a door as a table top. As you can see it has already become very useful!)
(The table we are working on was our first project - folding tressle legs with a door as a table top. As you can see it has already become very useful!)
This was all hard work so needed a fortifying breakfast to start the day - and we ended it with a delicious Indian dinner.
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| from back left - murg makhni (butter chicken), dhal, a roti on the go and paneer palak (spinach paneer) |
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