Eons ago i was driving Lily to saturday practise and I spotted a huge heap of rubbish at the side of the road. It was absolute crap outside a nasty looking apartment building but I have no standards, as has been proven on many an occasion, so I stopped after dropping said child off and had a looky, from the safety of my car.
The only thing I could see was a ladder, but not the sort I wanted. I have been looking for an old rickety wooden, the older and ricketier the better, ladder for ages. This was a bunk bed ladder. Oh well in to the car it fell. I knew what I wanted to do with it but in the mean time it would have to get old so outside in the elements it must go.
I left it there for a long time as it wasn't the ladder I wanted and I bought more and more roadside finds into the back yard until it was starting to look like an episode from hoarders. ENOUGH.
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It was highly varnished and pine and gross |
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off with the finish |
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adding a few details. I used a sock full of screws and beat it senseless. |
The plan was to stain it and give it a weathered look. I only had a white satin paint and that wasn't wiping off so in the end I asked Rosie to go and find a can of white satin spray paint and she got busy spraying it. Since it wasn't the ladder i wanted it I guess it made sense that I had to rethink it all.
It is finished now.
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Amazing what a little imagination can do isn't it? |
Last night when I got to work I showed the wife of a client as we both love to do this sort of stuff and she says, oh we have a really old ladder do you want it? And the client says, but it is really rickety. Yes, they did! arghhh!
What a great idea! You are so clever and resourceful. :)
ReplyDeleteLove what you did with it. Get the other ladder & create another one!
ReplyDeleteI love how you are so crafty! What a fun idea!
ReplyDeleteThat is so bloody clever!!
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