Making Benches for the Dining Room and JORD Wood Waches
*This is a sponsored post brought to you by JORD Wood Watches. All opinions are 100% my own.
I’m very excited to be teaming up with JORD Wood Watches for this post! The Mr. even got to benefit from this one, so it’s a win win in my book. They create these amazing hand-crafted, unique wood timepieces and pride themselves on their watches telling “more than just time.” So JORD, here’s our story: We are wood working machines over here on Blueberry Hill… and this little gem matches our lifestyle just perfectly:
(side note: “hand model” is now being added to his resume ;-))
The Mr. is the handyman around here. I just come up with all the crazy ideas. Lucky for me, he likes building things and woodworking so it works out well. This time? No different. For weeks I’d been mulling around this horrible idea to sell our beautiful upholstered dining room chairs. Gasp. I know… truth be told, I lost sleep over it. But, when it came down to it, I hardly let the kids breathe near them much less sit on one so it was time for them to go. I replaced the ‘head’ and ‘foot’ of the table with Ikea Wicker ones I’d had my eye on. But whaaaat about the other 6 seats? Queue the Mr. He sized up the situation and knew he could make some stools for much less than we could buy 6 new chairs for. And that, my friends, was music to this DIYer’s ears. It was then that he came up with the fantastic idea to replicate a stool we’d found in my grammy’s basement last year. It was one my grandfather had made many years ago from scraps of wood and found signs. He was a highway worker by day, and a woodworker by night. I like to think I get some of my craftiness from him. 😉
A few hours, some sawing and a drill hole or two later and voila:
We decided to mix things up a bit and make three smaller benches for one side, and one long one for the other. I stained, then painted them and used a sander to distress. A coat of wax finished these babies off and I couldn’t be more excited about the results. Ready to see?
Bring on the spaghetti dinners this year… I can wipe these babies down after a good meal and no one would be the wiser. Thanks for stopping in today and before you go – hop over to Jord Wood Watches For your chance to win a $75 e-voucher. All (yes, everyone is a winner here) who enter win a $20 e-gift card (excluding the grand prize winner). The contest is until 8/28/16 so hop over there and claim your prize today! (Offer expires 10/31 for grand prize and 12/31 for $20 prizes).
