Console or Side Table Made from Three Wooden Bar Stools

We decided to put this in our second home. Dimensions: Length 47 inches, Depth 14.25 inches, Height 27.75 inches, Weight 37 pounds. This elegant but functional one-of-a-kind piece would work well in many places, including an entryway, living room, dining room, den, or office. Use it to display books, special collectibles, dishes, knickknacks, and so on. Was asking $200.

The Story

This was a classic upcycle project, taking something old—in this case three old things—and creating something totally different and new. It’s among my favorite projects. I found three bar stools curbside just a few houses up the street from my home in the Glover Park neighborhood of D.C. I removed the damaged seats, rough-sanded the wood to better accept paint, applied a layer of primer, and then one of my favorite go-to colors, a khaki-pale green paint (Benjamin Moore satin “Seaspray”). I created two matching shelves out of a few planks of tongue-in-groove beadboard lumber, newly purchased from Home Depot. I stained the wood a medium/dark brown, finished the shelves with three coats of Minwax water-based clear satin Polycrylic, and attached them to the stools with screws and corner braces. This was the first project like this that I ever made, but it became a general model for similar pieces when I subsequently found other bar stools.

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