Vintage Shutters Wall Sconce Diy
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ScavengerChic
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Months ago, my younger brother showed up on my doorstep with a fantastic pile of architectural salvage stuff. A pile of shutters, a couple of doors, tons of spindles...he was cleaning out his garage and he thought I might be able to make good use of his found treasures. Junk makes me so happy and this was awesome junk!
From the pile of shutters, I have already made a headboard and mortise shelves but it was time to pull the shutters out again for project number three.
Along with the shutters I also used candle holders are from the thrift store (according to the tag on the bottom, originally from Target), a block of wood that used to be on my kids play set when they had a play set and the room divider was from my oldest son, Keith, who had found it on one of his job sites and thought I might be able to make good use of it.
The block of wood was cut into two equal pieces, I used a handheld jigsaw to free the decorative wood carving and a metal cutter to cut the candle holder away from the rest of it's decorative stand. What you don't see, is that I kept about 3 inches of the wire that the candle holder sits on so that I can just insert it into my block of wood.
The wood carving was centered and cut to the width of the wood block. It wasn't quite tall enough to take up the entire space, so a few pieces of scrap wood filled in the gap.
Attached the wood carving and scrap pieces to the block of wood with wood glue and a few finishing nails.
The shutters were finally apart and ready for their paint treatment. I added yellow and blue to give the appearance of more layers of paint, but once I started sanding down the existing shutter, it probably didn't need it. There were already many layers of paint built up over the years.
This is the shutter after one layer of an antique wax.
A few screws inserted through the back hold the block of wood to the shutter and a hole drilled through the top of the block was all that was needed for the candle holder.
If you would like to see more of the step by step photos and to see a closeup of the paint treatment and it's many layers, make sure you click on the link below.
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Published June 24th, 2016 8:26 AM
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Merelyn sale on Mar 02, 2018
Neat idea. I love using old stuff to decorate with.
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Maxine Waller on Mar 06, 2018
I'm in love! Gorgeous
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Does your brother now want his “salvage stuff” back 🤔😁😃