CHALK IT UP: Revamped Bookcase

I'm a little embarrassed at the amount of time I've allowed to lapse between posting.
With the new year I bring more challenges for myself; educationally, professionally and personally.
That being said, I'm going to aim for a bi-weekly post, gotta start somewhere, right?

Of my furniture projects that I had for sale in the Field of Poppies booth, I'm excited and shocked to say that I completely sold out in December. Shocked because some of the pieces were flirting with having been there for 6 months.

Selling out has left me empty handed for replacement so I've really been pushing myself to work on some type of project for the shop every day. A habit that I confess, I had allowed to fall by the wayside.

My furniture and hopeful projects had been (for a 6 month time period) stacking up in my husbands workshop. When my 'to do' pile reached threatening heights... for safety and sanity reasons... I was kicked out of his workspace.

We worked together to clear out an old bulk tobacco curing barn. Which ultimately meant moving a lot of pallets, sweeping a lot of old tobacco leaves and debris. One part of the process involved ripping the bead board drop ceiling out. Ripped it out but, not to throw it away but to give it a new life as something else.

I received this bookcase for free - someone was pitching it. I can understand why. It has nothing special going on with it. It even has the cheap panel backboard.

So, step one - lose the faux back and put in a new one. With that I decided to use the wood from that we pulled out of the tobacco barn ceiling.

Next step would be painting the entire piece with $5 oops off white paint (with the exception of the reclaimed wood). Note the toddler photobombing my pic.

And time to start waxing. I used Briwax Tudor Brown and Clear. My technique is adding Tutor Brown heavily around the edges and in corners and use the clear to blend it out.