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Monday, July 15, 2013

A Farmhouse Style Pie Safe

I've always wanted to pick up a pie safe. There's just something so farmhouse about them. But my cheap (make that frugal-it sounds better) nature never allows me to pay the piper for one. So when I picked up a $5 piece of junk from a yard sale, my first thought was to turn it into a pie safe. And that's just what we did!
Here is the original piece I bought. It said make an offer so I did. And I got it for a whopping 5 dollars. I thought that was a pretty good steal. It was made from beadboard, after all. And I love beadboard.
{Check out the sponge stamped hearts on the inside there.}
The first thing I did was paint the outside white. Vintage White from CeCe Caldwell, to be exact. But I didn't worry about getting into all the grooves. I wanted this to have a nice farmhouse feel.
The inside was pretty much bare wood. And I have this nearly full gallon of latex paint in the prettiest shade of blue. I used it to paint blue stripes on Eric's beadboard bathroom cabinet and I love the color. So I chose it for the inside of this piece, too. 
Eric cut a shelf and some cleats to hold it. I painted those the same shade of blue, secured my cleats with screws and inserted the shelf.
Eric cut 3 wider pallet wood boards for the top and I stained them with Minwax Jacobean. A nice dark finish. Then I used the blue on the outside edges of the boards. 
Eric constructed a pallet wood door for this great cabinet. I used the same Minwax stain on it and attached screen to the back.
I added a hook and loop latch to the door.I thought that was the most farmhousey choice of latches. :)
Eric added 6" tall 4x4 legs to the bottom of the cabinet. I used the same stain on those, too.
{I hadn't painted the screw heads white before I took this photo. oops}
Setting the cabinet up for its photo shoot was pretty fun, too!
I grabbed a few vintage items I kept from my mom's house when she passed away.
They've just been sitting in my kitchen drawer until now.
It's amazing how many old things I have that I forget about until I'm ready to stage a picture.
Unfortunately, my tiny rental house doesn't let me display as many things as I would like.
Someday I can see these sitting on a shelf in my farmhouse kitchen...
But for now, they're prettying up the new pie safe!
Love the vintage apron in my favorite color! 
  My only regret is not having the time to actually bake a fresh pie for this photo shoot! :)
And here it is at our booth this last weekend. Loving it with the coffee blocks and kitchen signs, too!
 I really hope you've enjoyed looking at this project.
I know I've been very excited to get it done and show it to you! 

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