A little wining...

Now I know that any re-finishing person worth her salt has to take before pictures as well as after and I did for this project, but not thinking when my son asked if he could use my camera and then if he could delete the pictures on it- I said "sure, go ahead".  Well, moments later I realized my mistake - too late.  Oh well, as Oprah says, "it's a learning life".

One day last summer, while perusing a local thrift shop, I came across a cute little radio cabinet (the radio itself was long gone) in the back corner.  I had been looking for a little something to make into a wine cabinet for a certain corner of the living room.   Of course I didn't buy it, I had to think about it for a bit.

When I told FH  [fabulous hubby, and this is the only time I'm going to tell you :-) ] about it, he asked if I needed help unloading it.  Silly me, now I had to return to make the purchase.

I ended up taking it out to the cabin with me for a long weekend, I love taking projects out there to putter with.  I already had the cabinet stripped, now I needed my dad's help to make the wine rack for the bottom.

We spent one day figuring out the correct sizing of the rack for various sized wine bottles, good thing there are so many of us out there that drink wine as we had plenty of options.  Though Mom was concerned when she saw me heading out to the garage in the morning with a few bottles of wine in my arms (I'm still not sure if she thought they were full or empty).

After returning home with the wine cabinet and the wine racks, I was able to prime and paint the lower portion of the cabinet and the racks.  The outside of the cabinet was in good enough shape that I could stain and varnish it. I had to do all of this in my studio so that I wouldn't have to worry about all the dust or little paw prints that would surely show up before it dried.

So here she is in all her glory;