Kitchen Island

I made this table from very old and gray repurposed fence materials.

The legs are old Gothic Top Posts that took me three hours just to sand them! The skirt, top and shelf are all made from Oak Field Gates that we took down for a customer and replaced. I love the way it came out. The wood looks like an old Irish antique piece.

I put casters on it and it rolls like a dream. But if you knew you were not going to move it, they can easily be removed and the height of the piece is still great!

My First Table!

  My First Table

I made this table with the help of Ana White @ ana-white.com the farmhouse table plans. I used all recycled fence materials. Painted backing rails for the main frame of the table and unpainted, weathered pickets for the top.

Here you can see the notching that I had to do for the base of the table. That took me about 4 hours to do all the notching, it wasn't perfect, but it was my first time.

This picture shows the supports under the table top.

  I sanded the table top after I built it and left it with some of the gray weathered look, I love it.

I love the bread board ends. Ana used a larger board, I wanting to stick with my recycled fencing, so I  choose to use the same pickets I used for the rest of the table top.

My finished table measured 38" x 70". Now I have to decide how I would like to finish the top!

Pallet Wine Racks

I loved these wine racks when I saw them on the Internet. I have access to many, many pallets and I thought that I had to try and make one, it can't be that hard, they look simple enough. I was right to a point, they are easy to make but it is extremely hard to take apart a pallet!. so once we found the best way to do that, (sawzall), it went much better. Different types of wood are used to make pallets and the first one I made was Oak, very heavy and hard oak, but beautiful. The second one had some pine or more likely spruce, it too is beautiful but lighter. I am going to make some variations now, shorter ones for people with smaller wall spaces, ones with shelves, who knows! I am excited about trying different things though.

Spring is Here!

This past Sunday Rick and I spent a few hours completely transforming our Twin Elm Farm Antiques location and brought it into spring.  I finished up the last few things so I could put it all together and get the look I wanted. Rick and I went out and loaded up the truck with a few things, not everything because we had a lot to take out of Twin Elm. We started to drive down the driveway and Rick realized we had no brakes! UGH! So we loaded up the car! Many, Many Times! But we managed to get it all over there, design our layout and there you have it, SPRING! The coffee table was ugly and I love the transformation, enough so that if I had room, I would have kept it. Between the columns is the Flower Box I built on Saturday, love it. The green kitchen work table was made by my Dad and has Corian on top, he made the stools too, one already sold. Since this picture was taken I have added some colorful fish made from fence pickets, very fun! I love the way my spot looks now and hope things sell!

This is a close up of the Flower box I made last Saturday. It is completely made from recycled fencing.

The Church Box

I made this little box the same time Rick and I were making the frames. I had the idea earlier in the day and I couldn't wait to see if I could make it. Just because I have an idea of how I want to make something doesn't mean it is going to go together like I had hoped. That is what happened here. I used a small nail gun which makes it much easier and quicker of course. After working out all the kinks and there were a few, it was done and I thought it looks like a church, hense the name. I thought it would be great for outdoor entertaining, condiments, silverware, flowers, etc.

Repurposed Fence Frames

I love making things out of material that most people would throw out. When I see the old fencing, pallets, etc..., I see

PROJECTS!

Yesterday my husband and I were in his office at our fencing company (Crowe Fence & Deck Supply), and a neighboring company's payloader drove by our window, and I said to my hubby Rick, " That is a perfect pallet, I want that"! He said, Oh my God, I married Fred Sanford! I may have just aged myself, that's O.K. If you don't know who that is, go to You Tube and look up Sanford and Sons.

Anyway, that is what I do,

 ADAPT

 CREATE

ORIGINATE.

This picture frame was made from some fencing we removed for a customer. Normally it would go to the recycling center, but I saw potential in that old fencing. Making frames has been a little challenging, but we figured it out and I love them! I bought these prints from Twin Elm Farm Antiques in Peterborough NH, I rent space there, look them up on facebook. I hade them double matted at Michaels and then framed them with the fencing. I am going to keep three of them for myself and sell the rest at Twin Elm Farm Antiques.