Trash to Treasure - Bookcase
My husband is always bringing me home treasures he finds on trash night in our neighborhood. Thanks, honey.
His latest find was this solid wood bookcase. It was pretty beat up and had some water damage on one side, but was otherwise in decent shape, and was SOLID wood. I knew I could fix it up. Here is what I did…
Step 1, Clean and Paint...
First I started by cleaning up the piece. It was dusty and needed a good wipe down. Then I painted it.
I used chalk paint that I mixed myself using this recipe that I found online, or can purchase chalk paint at many hardware stores and online.
1/3 cup plaster of Paris
1/3 cup water
mix these 2 ingredients together first
then add 1 cup of paint
and stir until smooth and mixed thoroughly.
For those who don’t know, chalk paint is awesome. It allows you to paint most furniture without having to sand first.
Step 2, Apply Peel and Stick
I had this fun peel and stick paper that I bought from Amazon a while back that was waiting for the right project. This was it. To apply it I simply measured, cut, peeled off the back and stuck right to the back of the shelf. I was a little nervous about this step, but it was really VERY easy.
Step 3, Apply Top Coat…
I always use MinWax Polycrylic as my top coat. It is water based and dries fast. I used 2 coats on this piece.
Step 4, Styling…
I filled up my new bookcase using many of my other awesome thrift store finds, my newest find being this adorable antique car I scored for only $5.99!!! How cute is this thing?
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This bookcase looked beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration- going to do this!!
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I love the way you styled it. Something I don't do very well, I just smoosh a bunch of books in it and some objets d'art that are just trinkets and things other people gave me as gifts.
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