Canopy bed turned into a bench

This is a customer supplied antique canopy bed that has been in family a very long time. She did not want to get rid of it but also did not have use for it in the current form.

Above is a picture that she sent us to see if we could make a bench from this bed. The issues that she needed addressed was , it was too tall (8 ft tall at the post), too wide over 4 1/2 ft wide, wanted different color. The room she envisioned it going into was the guest room and it had no closet, so she wanted some rails around the top for guest to hang clothing. We ended up cutting it down to 3 ft wide and just under 6 ft tall with antique white and a dark stain. 

(yes the paint scheme was based on the horse "Frankie" in the background)

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Headboard Bench

Headboard turned into a beautiful bench. The hand painted "Welcome sit -relax- enjoy" will be welcoming guest and family  to a lucky home for many years to come. The front legs are newels from a stair banister and the seat was old rough sawn oak boards. 

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Our very first repurpose!

Hubby and I went picking out in the country and found a barn sale, the most amazing barn I've ever seen it was filled with treasures and we found the following.

As you can see the headboard and footboard had seen better days. 

Some people see junk, we see potential!

Headboard

Footboard

Lets get started step by step!

• We hose down the headboard and footboard they were covered in everything you can imagine.
• This is my favorite part design! As you can see we end up cutting the legs of the footboard and building the seat with wood we had around our barn. For the arm rest is the top corners of the footboard.

Bench is build!

• Bench was painted antique white but I had a changed of heart and end up painting it lime green.
• To give it that Shabby Chic look we distressed it with 220 sanding grit.
• And finally bench was polyurethane.

Here is the finished look!

Here is the before and after pic.

What do you think? Not bad for our very first repurpose!