Deacon bench

So a few weeks ago Justin was cruising around the web, specifically craigslist, looking for fencing and other various things for projects we have to do around the house. Well he found an awesome Deacons Bench for our Mudroom in our almost finished basement. The pictures looked great on craigslist, very solid piece that is super old; the seller was asking 150 dollars. My husband thought he could dicker around with the price, but he was wrong and the sellers husband won out in the end.

 

Above is the before picture, its solid oak and someone used polyurethane on it (yuck)

I spent most of a rainy Sunday sanding it down, and it took a long time to get poly off.

 So after I was done sanding it, I chose to re stain it with a Walnut finish to bring out the grains and so it was darker then our molding which is pine and stained natural. Justin would have preferred it lighter but I love a darker stain.

The above picture is nothing to special but it is our bench in a Walnut stain and all ready to get placed into the mudroom :)