My newest re-do

I'm so PROUD of this one! I bought two padded wood benches at a yard sale several years ago, brought them home and promptly painted and recovered them. Well, they've been outside for at least six years since and the plywood seat finally weakened and broke.

(Bear with me, I'm setting the stage here...)

My DH and I are always reworking furniture and quickly found that door and drawer handles and pulls are expensive. So when we see a trashed and discarded dresser that has been tossed curbside (too trashed to rework) we grab the drawers and run home with them, knowing that we can use the handles for SOMETHING.

(Okay now, try to get a visual on this one)

My hubby yesterday, ax in hand, was headed toward our stack of handle-less drawers when I suddenly got this *FLASH* - hey, I can still use some of those drawers! Long story short, after disassembling and keeping the drawers with "real" wood in them, I pulled two particular drawer fronts out and put them next to one of the wood bench frames I told you about in the first paragraph.

THEN (yes, I'm concluding now) I attached it all together, gave it a new coat of paint, decided to mosaic the bottom board and now have a little garden bench that is too small to be comfy for my rearend but is just the right size for a child OR to hold potted plants.

Love that!!
I really want to make a garden bench out of a headboard~now to locate a headboard!!!

mgf~

I am new on this board, but am amazed at the brain children that live here.
The headboard benches are the greatest thing, wish I had some to make up, but then, I don't have any tools, just hammer, screwdriver, and pliers, and no where to work anyway. I envy anyone that has all that at hand.
Thanks for sharing, and thanks for giving us all ideas.

I decided the back was too plain so I drew some flowering vines on it to simulate the flowers in the mosaic.

Love the flowers Sher especially the color it really lifts the mosaic up. Great job.

Thanks, Meg! I think I like it better with the flower vines, too!

I love it! I'll PM you the address that you can send it to! :p

Nice try, Leanna!