Old and New Old
We've got a big family shindig coming up on the Fourth of July and I am in the midst of late-spring/early-summer cleaning for it.
Now,we have eight wrought iron deck chairs and two circular tables that will hold more people than that. As luck would have it, I "found" four beautiful but rusted wrought iron chairs (even better than the ones we have) in the scrap metal dumpster at the ... well ... you know where. For $12 in enamel paint and an incalculable amount of elbow grease, they now look like new.
With twelve chairs around the tables, there is no room left for the food. So it was that as I was cleaning and restaining the decks, I ran across a section of section of a garage door I had replaced at the Big House in Cary. With more elbow grease, some scrap lumber from the ... well ... you know where, hinges and other hardware from the selfsame garage door, left-over paint from other projects, a few pieces of bed frames from the ... well ... you know where, etc., we now have our foldable Fourth of July serving table for an out-of-pocket cost of zero-zilch.
Ain't it pretty?
Now,we have eight wrought iron deck chairs and two circular tables that will hold more people than that. As luck would have it, I "found" four beautiful but rusted wrought iron chairs (even better than the ones we have) in the scrap metal dumpster at the ... well ... you know where. For $12 in enamel paint and an incalculable amount of elbow grease, they now look like new.
With twelve chairs around the tables, there is no room left for the food. So it was that as I was cleaning and restaining the decks, I ran across a section of section of a garage door I had replaced at the Big House in Cary. With more elbow grease, some scrap lumber from the ... well ... you know where, hinges and other hardware from the selfsame garage door, left-over paint from other projects, a few pieces of bed frames from the ... well ... you know where, etc., we now have our foldable Fourth of July serving table for an out-of-pocket cost of zero-zilch.
Ain't it pretty?
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