A while back I was headed home on my lunch hour (I live very close to my day job office) and I happened to see a garage sale sign. Cue squealing brake noise.
I remembered having stopped at a sale on the same street a year or so ago, and if this was the same house they had some great stuff!
Sure enough, it was. And once again, they had some great stuff.
I came home with a carload of fabulous finds. I shared this photo on my Facebook page at the time. Lucky I drive a convertible!
One of the items I picked up at that sale was this metal base (that’s it in the front passenger seat too).
I think this was probably the base to an old typewriter stand. It likely had a wood top with drop leaves on either side. I was really drawn to the chippy paint and to these cool industrial looking wheels.
I knew Ken would make short work out of cutting a new top for it out of some scrap barn wood that I had lying around.
Sure enough, I came home from work on Monday to find the finished product waiting for me in the carriage house.
I only had to do one more thing. The newly cut raw edges of the barn wood looked pretty fresh.
We can’t have that! So I rubbed some antiquing wax into those fresh cuts to ‘dirty’ them up a bit.
So shabby industrial metal base meets farmhouse salvaged barn wood.
I’m showing this little stand used as a small side table, but I also think it would make a great plant stand. I’m also thinking about using it at Christmas as a tree stand. I could put a small tabletop sized tree on it.
What do you think?
q is for quandie 
I LOVE industrial meets farmhouse; 2 of my favorite styles😊
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Mine too!
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I love how you staged this picture! The fading hydrangeas and scattered fallen leaves give a mellow, warm and restful feeling. A nice effect for a table and chair that have already been used well. The picture reminded me that fall is marching along and soon we’ll be welcoming winter.
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Shhhh … don’t say the “w” word out loud just yet …
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Chippy paint and barn wood, what’s not to love? Another great rescue. I so want to be the lady who drives through town in a convertible full of garage sale finds.
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It is kind of fun 😉 The last time I shopped at that particular garage sale I ended up with two old screen doors sticking up out of the back seat. Luckily, it’s only a few blocks from my own house so I didn’t have to drive far with those screen doors.
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You’re putting that VW to good use 😉 I have a major affinity for typewriter stands and love this one. It would look great with a tree on it, or with your typewriter with a holiday note in it! Already missing garage sale season…
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Me too! The weather had been so nice up to last week that Sue and I were finding a few lunchtime sales here and there, but most of them were dreadful. We also headed out to a church sale last week and I came away with a gorgeous ironstone casserole (for $1!) and a vintage leather train case. But now that it’s getting colder (and drearier!) sales are really going to dry up. 😦
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Ironstone for $1! Vintage leather train case! Score! It may be time to hit up Arc again.
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Absolutely!
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Oh, I am excited! Just bought a metal typewriter table and am now thinking of taking the metal top off and doing this! Thanks for the great idea!
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Let me know how it turns out!
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Two thumbs!
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That was supposed to be two thumbs up!👍👍
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Love love love this. Do your coworkers chuckle when they see you arrive for work?
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LOL, I think they are used to it by now. No one seems to question seeing my car in the lot loaded to the gills with furniture 😉
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I love this look…and it would be perfect with a Christmas tree…
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Thanks Linda! I think there is a good chance you’ll see it again on the blog closer to Christmas.
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Love the rusty metal, chippy, white paint look.
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