So I believe I mentioned a few weeks ago about wanting to try something different on our living room ceiling. Its vaulted and huge and so bare! I got a huge pile of 100 year-old reclaimed douglas fir.
This wood has so much character! I envisioned a wood that was distressed yet
smoothed over by coastal grays, whites and blues. Im redoing the room in grays witha
charcoal-gray velvet on the couch, silver walls, silver travertine flooring in a Versailles pattern,
touches of yellow, teal, white,,,,,I can see it all in my head. But for now, all I have
is the ceiling. I worked for two solid days.
What in the world was I thinking!! Houzz and Pinterest should be removed from the Internet!
***Please click on the individual picture to see the larger format** I need a wide-angle lens. I just cant get the whole room in the shot!
Heres what I started with: Over 300 square ft! They were all stained and painted....one by one.....oy! I used a weathered
gray stain, sunbleached stain, and mixtures of white and gray milk paint (REAL MILK PAINT CO. is my fave milk paint!!)
Then each board was stripped of its "tongue"(it was fabricated for flooring) and cut in 3 lengths.
We measured off the center of the ceiling and snapped a chalk line.
From that point we found the 45 degree angle and started the first board.
The boards were secured with Liquid Nails and a pneumatic nailer.
(Lord help me if I ever get tired of this look!)
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| lovely armpit shot |
We would check for our 45 angle to make sure we were on track. It is imperative that every
board is cut identical when doing the herringbone. Make a jig on the table saw before cutting your boards.
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| randomly picking out "random colored boards |
This is the part where the work came in. Thats 14 feet up! Mr Pretty stayed on the ladder, called out the measurement of each board, and I cut them and threw them up to him. Going up and down the ladder for each and every board would have been tortuous! Ditto for the boards that butted up against the boarder. I got really good at the chop saw and making miter cuts!!
(BTW,,,each single row is 39 boards!! Um,,there were like 11 rows! Uh-huh...You can do the math!!
The pics dont do justice to the chandelier!!
Placing the very last piece!!! OMGthankyouJesusImdone!!
These are temporary furnishings!!!
4-2-13Getting ready for some silver travertine flooring!Got the floor finished in the past few days! Versaille pattern. Man oh man, that is some work!Still have to grout.....I hate grouting.
To see what the room finally looks like all done.....see HERE
Linking up at these great parties:
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So those of you who recall the reclaimed wood herringbone
ceiling project (HERE)
that we did a few months ago, FINALLY can see the whole room with my
reupholstered furniture!
Only took 7 weeks to get my stuff back!! I seriously need to get a pro-photographer. The pictures look so flat!
But this will have to do for now. I'm not keeping the white chair in the corner. I will look for something different.
But the Ikat fabric chair is one of my re-dos!!
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Ive been working magic to transform unwanted furniture bits
into fabulous home decor items.
Plaster Molding Wall HooksReclaimed Cabinet Doors with French Graphics
Pillar Candle Holders made from Discarded Furniture Pieces.
I have to be short on words today because I have to get back to creating.
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I wanted to share a few more items I have reclaimed out of all my bits and pieces
saved from my furniture escapades.
First are these fun beach themed wall hangers, does anyone recognize what they are made from?
They have metal star shaped knobs to hang from, i.e. towels, keys, coats.
If I had a poolside thats where they would be hanging now.
One of my favorite reclaimed items is the plaster molding hooks.
As promised over on our FACEBOOK page I completed some with vintage glass door knobs.
An finally another large set of pillar candle holders, painted and distressed in bright white and
built from bed parts, drawer faces, and embellished with Fleur DE Lis.
Many ppl that are not local have asked how to
purchase some of these smaller items, we are dabbling in opening an Etsy shop to provide anyone with the ability to purchase some of the smaller items I reclaim.
I will keep you informed.
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THE VICTIM
THE RESULT
UPDATE:
to see how this was transformed go here.
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Hey there!
Hope you had a lovely weekend!
As we get ready for the October Grand Opening of our shop,
we are working hard to find just the right things to fill the inside.
Finding the right piece to put in the huge window display
has been really important to us.
Hubby was driving home last week and came
across a table in an alley that looked as if it was being thrown out.
He called the owner of the property it was on and
asked if he could have it and they said sure, so he packed it up and brought it home.
It was in pretty sad shape but it wasnt the top we were interested in.......it was the legs.
Take a look......
We loved the industrial pipes and huge castors so we removed those from the
plywood top and gave them a good wash.
I happened to remember that we still had one huge slab of reclaimed bowling alley flooring from last summer that was sitting in our storage facility.
So we loaded it up and brought it home to work on it.
We measured out where we wanted to attach the legs and drilled holes to accommodate them. Because the slab is so massive, we needed to build the table first
before starting work on the table top.
The flooring was covered in that thick yellow lacquer, so I bought a can of paint stripper and got to work, using gloves of course.
Heres a look at it half way through the stripping process. Isnt the wood underneath lovely?
After stripping everything off, I gave it a good sanding with 180 grit sandpaper and my palm sander. Then coated the whole thing with Minwax Finishing Wax in Natural. I happen to like finishing wax much better than polyurethane because it leaves a more natural look on the wood instead of looking like you coated it with polyurethane. Then I gave the pipe legs and castors a light coating of oil rubbed bronze spray paint. Heres how it looks now.....
We are pretty happy with it!
We cant wait to get it into the display window with some pretty cool things on the top of it.
And Im crazy about those castors!
We love the vintage industrial look!
Hubby went to a big estate sale this weekend and he came home with some amazing finds
for our shop that I cant wait to share!
Ive had lots of folks emailing me asking where our shop is going to be located and
I will share all that info as we get closer to the big day.
We hope to have a spectacular grand opening
complete with a piece of furniture to be given
away in a drawing, so, we do hope you think about making the trip.
Id love to meet some of our readers!
Have a great day!
Diana :)
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