Thursday, February 26, 2015

Armoire Photo Cabinet

A week ago I blogged about the Governor Winthrop desk that my husband restored for my stationery supplies.  Today I'm going to brag on his skills again.

In 2007 a friend had an old cedar wardrobe closet that she wanted to dispose of, and I was looking for a cabinet to keep all my pictures and photo albums in.  I wondered if my hubby could breathe new life into the old wardrobe.  After looking at it, he felt it had potential, so we brought it to our garage [his work shop].



I began looking through furniture catalogs and refinishing books and found a picture of a restored armoire that I loved.  I showed the picture to my hubby, and he said he thought he could transform the old cedar closet into the armoire.  The photos below are its stages of transformation.




Ta-Da!  Here it is in its new home - our spare bedroom.  It's an amazing transformation, isn't it?



The perfect place for all my photos and albums - a lot of which are tea parties and tea trips. Now that I use my digital camera and photos are downloaded to my computer, I don't use photo albums like I used to, but I'm so grateful for my armoire/photo cabinet - and, of course, my talented hubby! 



8 comments:

  1. Beautiful! Your talented hubby did a great job!

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  2. From visiting your home, I already knew your hubby was handy with wood working. The cabinet looks brand new, what a great transformation!

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  3. It looks beautiful, Phyllis! Your hubby is quite a talent and you got a great deal!

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  4. Wow! You'd never guess it was the same cabinet!

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  5. That's a clever and pretty way to store your photo albums!

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  6. So beautiful! Hang on to that handyman!

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  7. Wow, that is an AMAZING transformation! I wouldn't have known it was the same piece of furniture if you hadn't shown the photos together. Kudos to your hubby for his great work!

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