Vintage Tabletop Radio Light Box
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I have a weakness for old radios or more specifically the cases & cabinets they came in ~ big, small, wood, Bakelite…doesn’t matter I love them all!
I bought this old tabletop radio (minus the radio) for $3 a while back, my first thought was that it would make a great birdhouse but the more I thought about it the more I was sure it wouldn’t last long outside in the elements so I decided to go with plan B
I cleaned up the wood and applied a coat of Restor-A-Finish to feed the wood, cover small scratches & even out the color ~ much better!
Not really sure why the inside was painted such a pretty shade of institutional green but I gave it a coat of white paint to lighten it up and make the light reflect better ~ I made a back for it out of a piece of tag board painted brown to match & attached with sticky back Velcro. I covered the fancy front opening (from the inside) with a creamy gold sheet of vellum paper and added a puck style led light to light it up ~
Love the soft glow when it's lit up!
I think it looks equally great lit & unlit sitting up on the shelf alongside my old clocks :)
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I have one of those speakers too. It came to me along with original RCA Coffin radio..it's all metal and stands on slim metal legs about waist high. I lost the top on the way home one day so I made it into a lamp, winding small lights among the orig. tubs and rewired the speaker. It's so cute!! I''ve also seen these speakers made into doll houses. A wooden Cathedral speaker case went to N.Y. to become a little diorama for Harry Potter.
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It would,Webshots.com has a lot of examples of radio cabinets and speakers made into doll houses.
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