Garage Door...Bench

So what did my old garage door turn into? 

If you guessed a bench than you win the prize!

Except I don't have a prize..... you'll just have to live with the satisfaction of knowing you are so smart and creative! And you were right. And we all know how much we all love being right.....Right? 

Now let's see what's left (Wahaha) of my garage doors!

I took two of the middle sections and used the better one for the top and the lesser one for the supports.

Because it was quite heavy, I added a support in the middle and braced the two ends with some high quality cabinet grade wood we had from one of our rentals. I was not in love with the gray but wasn't sure I wanted to tackle making her nekkid. But when I saw my friend Amy's window sill she had just striped using a heat gun, I quickly changed my mind. She let me borrow it and I was not disappointed. I  was not concerned with getting it down to the bare wood. I wanted it to be a little rustic and loved.

 I also know these pillows are not vintage enough but I'm working on it and I will show you what I came up with after we finish our annual summer party this weekend and we return from vacation the next week! THese pillows only cost $3 each at the local thrift. So I got all 6 because I know when you find good pillows and in a large matching quantity like this, who cares what they look like because you can always recover them in the fabric of your choice.   Just like matching lamps at the thrift. DO NOT PASS THEM UP! or you will be seeing them on someone else's blog and you will kick yourself for  being a DIY poser.

 This was supposed to be used for my super cool, huge farmhouse table I scored on the trash. (I was stalking that house for days, just waiting for the moment they took it to the curb. The moment it happened I grabbed my amazing son and we took the dolly down two blocks,  wrestled it on and wheeled it back up our alley and into the back yard!) Ya' know, with me, you do not get boring.

 When I put in place by the table it looked like a beast! Too high, too long, too everything.

Sigh.

I thought about cutting off the two end panels, or just making the supports shorter but have you read my post on my 4th of July dresses recently? Patience Kimmy-san.......something will come to you.....

As I was working on this, we had ripped out all of my plants along this wall and moved them in preparation for a deck.....which we then decided to postpone until next year. So this wall actually started to look like a great place for a vintage, reclaimed wood, garage door couch!

I love it. It looks and feels like it belongs. It is amazingly comfortable to sit on and my girls have already started to enjoy it at night while waiting for the fireflies to come a-knocking.

So, did I do good?

Always being renewed,

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