The cabinet I'm sharing with you today
is something I am very proud of!
Not only because it's made from an old window
(and don't we all love those!)
but because I built it and it turned out pretty lovely,
despite my lack of carpentry skills!
It all started with this gorgeous window.
I picked it up from a garage sale for $2 (and some personal anguish).
Let me explain the anguish part.
While I was at the garage sale, I ran across a very large black spider.
Not only did it scare me to death,
I then had to slightly embarrass myself by asking someone else to squish it.
I am so afraid of spiders that I have a hard time even killing them myself.
Ugh.
I hate those things!
But let's get back to the window
since I'm getting the creepy-crawlies reliving that moment!
The window frame was beautifully chippy with some rusty hardware.
In other words, it was gorgeous!
When I finally decided I wanted to make a cabinet out of it,
my first thought was to use the window as a door for the cabinet.
I decided against it though and opted for an open-faced cabinet, more like a bookcase,
with the window simply framing it out.
I used some weathered tongue-in-groove siding pieces
that I had picked up in a burn pile.
The beautiful grey of the siding looks great with the chippy window!
For the top, the bottom and the shelf,
I purchased new panels of the same tongue-in-groove board
and painted them with a grey color called weathered wood to coordinate.
painted alternately with white and off-white chalk paint.
I left the rough edges of the boards unpainted
to match the raw wood of the interior of the siding on the sides.
when the idea of it formed in my head,
once it was finished, I found I couldn't part with it.
The cabinet is all mine!
At least for now.
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