Welcome to my deck. Why am I writing from here? Well, it's partly because it's a BEAUTIFUL summer day in Colorado and partly because my office is a complete disaster. Why is it a complete disaster? That is another story for another day and another post. Stay tuned.
Well, do you remember that one time I bought a window at a junk yard? Here we are months later and I'm finally done with my window/headboard project and ready to share it with the world (or the 10 people including my own mother who read this thing).
The quest was to take an old and dirty window, clean it, make it look new, and then distress it again to make it looks old. Sounds a bit crazy to me too, but that's what my friends on HGTV do.
First I washed the window off about three times and scraped away all the paint that was chipping off. Then I took the window inside and taped off the glass. I ran out of blue painters tape 3/4 of the way through so I had to use some masking tape I had laying around to finish it off.
Next I painted the wood white using some acrylic paint. I only painted the front because I didn't see much of a point in painting the back seeing as how it would be against the wall and all.
Then I used some leftover stain from when I refinished my kitchen cabinets to make the wood looked distressed.
The knob thing on the window was kind of rusty so I used some spray paint (left over from refinishing the hardware on the kitchen cabinets) to make it look a little newer.
I was feeling pretty good about myself for using the whole spray the spray paint close to the paper plate so that it comes out as a liquid and then use a paintbrush to paint it on trick, but then me and my genius self decided to try and wash the brush and my hand looked like this for the next few days. Luckily no one at work noticed, or at least they didn't say anything.
Finally was the biggest challenge of the project, hanging the window. I was a little concerned about the weight and I knew I couldn't use a wire to hang it because you would see the wire straight through the glass of the window panes. After a call to this guy and a few pieces of free advice from my favorite master carpenter and friend Chris Kulow I was back in business.
I nailed two saw hooks into the back of the window and then used screw anchors to mount two screws into the wall.
It's been about two weeks now and the window hasn't come crashing down, so I guess Kulow was right.
So here we are...the finished product.
good job friend!!! i am still yet to have touched mine....
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