Redoing a Bench Redo – Spring Bench

We’re getting closer!  Here in Connecticut, it hit about 60 degrees last weekend! This feels like the longest winter ever (although I vaguely remember saying that last year… and possibly every year before that…) But I have begun to spring clean, and spent a large portion of the weekend switching around my house, trying to un-winter-ize it. It’s right around the corner…

About a year ago, I redid a plain pine bench. It’s great quality – made in Vermont – and extremely sturdy. I painted the top in a dusty blue plaster of paris chalked paint and sketched out a flying swallow silouette, which I painted on. It was springtime and I was sure it would fly out of the shop. Months went by and finally I had to admit defeat. So I moved it to another shop – it was so sweet, it had to sell, right?! Apparently not. I received the message to pick her up again.

I was torn… Facing the thought of stripping it down and starting over just made me sad… But other than the swallow, the rest of it really was kind of boring. I didn’t want it to be perfectly balanced with another swallow on the opposite side, but it did need something. So I taped off some stripes in the same off white as the swallow and painted them on with a foam brush, dabbing not brushing, for a textured grain sack effect. After a little distressing, she was done (again)…

This weekend, she will go back to Rebecca Christine’s Consignment Boutique and hopefully someone will feel Spring in the air!

Please let me know what you think – I appreciate every comment!

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