Coffee Table/Game Trunk

In our small house, I have learned that almost every piece of furniture need to do double duty if it is worth taking up a lot of room.  Functional with storage is the best find there is. 

 The boys learned how to play checker recently. My husband and I have loved playing with them and were looking for more games we could play together.  Most of  other our games were in the closet and not easy assess for the boys, so this was a perfect solution.   Then I saw this old trunk at a garage sale for $7.  The boys have played checkers or some type of board game almost every morning since I finished it.  I don't have a great before picture because I didn't really know how it would turn out.

Materials Used:

• Old Trunk
• Acrylic Antique White Paint and Brushes
• Painter's tape for squares
• Acrylic Sealer (2 to 3 coats)

Lattice Privacy Fence-adding height to a short fence

We put a privacy fence around 3 sides of our yard last Spring.  The 4th side was a neighbor who we liked and already had a nice short 4 foot fence.  That neighbor unfortunately had to move.  Since we don't know who will be moving in, the neighbor gave us permission to extend his fence up a little bit before he sells it. We have been wanting this for while because there is a restaurant with outdoor patio two doors down.  You can also see in the Before picture that we could see the restaurant's dumpster from our backyard.

BEFORE

AFTER

 

Instead of digging new posts and putting a brand new fence in, we extended the existing posts.