french country bench reveal

My mother gave me this bench over 20 years ago.  My parents got this bench when they got married in 1944 so it is 70 years old.  It looks like it was handmade.  My mother always had a cushion on it with a ruffle to hide the sides.  Since I am not that good at sewing I had my husband cut and install some molding to the front and the two sides.  I bought two different pieces of molding since I needed four inches and most molding goes up to three inches.  Here is the bench before the molding was applied.

The sides don't look as bad as the front.  They aren't pieced together like the front is.  Here is the moldings that I got at Home Depot.

I thought that the carved leaves would tie in with the carvings on the bench.  Now here is it with the moldings.

Now the next step is to get it painted.  This took me three coats of paint.

It is ready for the glaze and then polyurethane.

The seat cushion wasn't as easy to do as I thought it would be.  I am not a great at sewing.  I can make curtain panels and pillows but I decided to take the easy way out with this seat cushion.  I just glued some foam to a piece of plywood and tacked down the material like I would with a dining room chair.  It works for now.  Maybe some day I will fiddle with sewing a cushion for it.  So here is the final result.

I made the pillows myself as I love the rooster material.  I got the cabinet at a thrift store in great condition so I don't have to do anything to it.  The next thing to do is to decorate this area.  That will be on the next post.  I am thinking about putting some kind of shelf and hooks over by the door where I keep my shoes.  This area looks pretty bare.  Also I will be using a curtain panel that I bought at a thrift store to cover the window on the door. 

I still have the area where the table and chairs are to finish.  The table is a stone material so I will be covering it and the chairs to tie in with this area.  Hopefully that will get done in the next couple of weeks.  I am still helping the hubby with the garage cabinets so I don't have a lot of time to spare for the basement.  I still have both of the bedrooms to finish.  One of the bedrooms I am using for my craft room.  It is a craft room/guest bedroom as it is almost as large as our master bedroom.  Until next time.


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