Bookcase Facelife

One of the family room projects is finished!  The past weekend we put the last coat of paint on the bookcase, and unpacked the final three boxes of books that had been living in one of the guest rooms/Coach’s office.  So glad that this is finished…only one more project left!

This is the first furniture re-do I have done completely independently from my mom.  We started off by using stripper to take off the other layers of paint.  This bookcase was a birthday present back in college.  My daddy actually built this bookcase to hold my plethora of books.  Originally the bookcase was a soft ocean color blue but had since been painted white & brown.  Never had we ever stripped the paint, so we had multiple layers to eat through.  After about thirty minutes of futility attempting to strip through the layers CH left for Home Depot supposedly to purchase some additional stripper.  Instead he came home with a handheld sander, talk about a happy girl!  Using the hand stripper we quickly stripped through the remaining layers quickly! 

Two coats of Behr paint later we finally had a finished product to move into the family room.  I used paint & primer in one and skipped a separate primer. 

Keeping this bookcase was incredibly important to me.  Having pieces that my mom dreamed up and my daddy constructed and has followed me through several phases of life is meaningful.  It might be heavy, cumbersome and a pain to move but it’s something I refuse to get rid of!

before

love that CH’s college helmet & my favorite sign live in harmony