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!