Dream Book Design

Lopping Some Off The End

Hope everyone had such a great New Years and holiday in general. Thank you so much for all the encouraging comments on our Year End Recap. It was so fun to be able to browse through all we have done with this blog and life in a year!! Now that its a new year, J and I are really trying to tackle some projects big time before baby boy comes. Some projects big {nursery} and some smaller. We started it off on an easy note, cutting down the bottom of our antique stereo. This stereo is currently not a working stereo, although if we simply got it repaired it would be. Considering we have about a million other sources for music in our house {antique and modern} we think we are going to leave it in its current condition. One thing that did need to be changed though was the bottom. The very bottom was pretty banged up, and made the whole thing look more damaged than it is.


Simple solution? Cut it off! J simply his reciprocal saw and chopped off the whole bottom banged up piece.

After sawing it off he sanded the bottom for a more smooth finish. 

Were still not sure if we are completely done with this guy. We were thinking a fun bold color on it could really make a splash in the living room. And considering we only paid $35 for it, were not too worried about ‘ruining’ an antique piece by painting it. What do you think? To paint or not to paint?! 

Comments

  3. Nicole Martin says

    Paint it!! My husband and I bought an antique ice box, and we’re in the process of stripping the paint. The end result will be a bright country red, to add some color to our kitchen 🙂

  5. Anonymous says

    I would say restain the face of the wood and all the trim pieces paint it a fun colour. That way both the radio would pop and bring some fun colour into the home with out loosing its beautiful wood look.I would say stain it a dark walnut and the trim a fun red = )…tonya

  7. Monica's Closet says

    I can’t imagine it painted, I have one VERY similiar and can’t wait to see what you do.. Mine is a recent find and I had planned on restoring it, now I’m diffently waiting to see what you do.
    Monica

  11. Jenna at Homeslice says

    very cool. I guess it depends on how much wood you have in the room. I know your floors are wood.. but do you have a lot of other wood pieces? Anyway- I love the wood, but I also think it would be great to balance out with a bright, fun color!

  14. D.J. says

    The first thing that came to mind was paint it, cut off the front and add hinges to it so that you could hide a mini fridge inside. I bet J would love this on game day and you wouldn’t be stuck with an ugly eye-sore like a mini fridge in your livingroom.

  16. adrianne says

    So I think i’m hearing yall right when I say that we should not paint it..JUST KIDDING! Its pretty apparent that we really have no other choice;) Painting it it is, and possibly putting in a mini fridge on the inside..haha cause that would be just plain awesome!
    Thanks for all the opinions friends, you guys are the best!

  19. Malb86 says

    I hope you didn’t paint it! My mother has one that has doors on it and she always kept her dvds in it, I fell in love with the piece and she would never give it up, after much searching on craigslist I finally found one of my own the woman said she was going to paint it white, I was HORRIFIED! I got some Old English and it made such a difference, I need to show it off but I gutted the insides and ordered glass shelves. Now it’s my entertainment center and get so many compliments. OLD ENGLISH! if you dont like it after, paint it.