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Roadside Rescue Chair Back

Posted July 29th, 2011 by Annabellea and filed in A Day in the Studio, At Home, Before and After, Furniture, Home, Roadside Rescue

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I did it! I made my first Roadside Rescue! I found a broken chair with a great back… It also has wonderful legs that i will be using in another project!

The back had broken away from the chair and was missing a side… it might have been there in the trash, but i forgot to look in my slightly embarassed state of actually taking somebody’s trash, my heart was pounding and i was hurrying to get it in the car before someone saw me! lol

I took off the one side, used wood putty to fill the holes,

sanded and primed…

Then i spray painted with my new fav color Rust-oleum Eden Green that I also used on my easy canvas project. After it dried, i distressed using sandpaper and my little Dremmel Drill that i use for my jewelry, this made it easy to sand in the openings.

I nailed a sawtooth hanger on the back .

I toyed with the idea of adding tiny nails on it and hanging keys in the entry or even plates… but the plates hide the pretty lines…

So then it went up on the hutch…

Then i hung it over the kitchen sink…

Now it is happy in the foyer! Am i the only one that constantly moves stuff around?

Notice my Rusty Tools that i painted in the same green color! I have an awesome rusty tool collection that i am about to unpack from the back shed and hang. I can’t decide if i want to paint the tools or leave them rusty…. decisions, decisions!