Born again

I couldn't resist. Again. I saw that lovely drawer with its rusty ring handle on a pile of scrap wood and had to get a closer look.. turned out that there was also a door and two round carved posts and some other parts of the original piece of furniture in the pile. And then I had the crazy idea of trying to put it all together again, even though there was a lot missing and what I had was in such a poorly state. Clarotxos to the rescue!

These are the pieces I salvaged: so the bottom, the back and the top parts were missing, and the side panels needed some serious reinforcement... I was lucky I had a little ex-stool that had suffered the same outdoors fate, so it had exactly the same colour and texture than the wood of the finding. Good. Next, put it all together.

It was NOT easy. In fact, it was rather similar to try and build a 3D puzzle in the air... I am still amazed the whole thing stands and doesn't crumble apart; I don't care if it is, however, slightly tilted to one side. As long as I can open the door and drawer, adds character -or charm -or both. And the sewing machine fits in perfectly!

I think the original thing came from Morocco, there are quite a few similar ones for sale all over Barcelona. But it also reminded me to the beautiful hand painted furniture from Rajasthan, or even those from Tibet or China... so the natural way to make the added bits blend in seemed to be to paint it all, following the colour pattern of the Indian piece of material I have all over my dining room: red, yellow and green.

Then, not wanting to hide the original state of decay (which I find tremendously attractive), I scrapped the coats of paint, trying to achieve a distressed look. And there it is: the rebirth of a dead little piece of furniture!