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What vintage DIY project are you most proud of?
A month or two before my second son was born last year, my wife told me that the nursery needed to be completed in short order. Not being one to argue with a pregnant woman, I got right on it. We had inherited an early 1960s low boy dresser from my wife’s great grand-
My wife and I have been in the process of restor- ing a turn-of-the-century fixer-upper for the past several years. As a surprise for her birthday this past year I secretly finished all the restoration projects in our library, including a custom hanging pendant chandelier with exposed
mother. It is a nice piece, other than being a sort of minty green, and my wife wanted to use it as a changing table. We painted it and a night-
light bulbs. I attached a vintage 1950s teak
wooden bowl with really clean lines to the ceiling. It worked out well for two different reasons:
stand blue-gray and added new brushed nickel pulls. We found several wire bicycle models and baskets at sales around town and hung them on the walls, along with our son’s name spelled out in vintage metal letters. The crib and bookshelf in the room are modern espresso, but when paired with the older pieces, we had a vintage nursery that any pregnant woman would be proud of.
The teak grain added a nice aesthetic to the light, and the bowl shape operated practically with the inside facing the ceiling, con- cealing the light wiring. A humorous side note to the project was that my wife had purchased the bowl several months back, setting it aside as a birthday present for her sister. After seeing the light, she deemed it a worthy sacrifice.
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