So we have been doing final clean-outs at my parents' house next door, since they both went home to the Lord this past fall. Its down to furniture pieces that have to be disposed of...and in my Daddy's room, was a totally beat up old secretary desk that he had tinkered with forever and a day. His dream was to fix it up into some glorious antique, because he was a master carpenter...but the last couple years he lived he acknowledged he didn't have the material or dexterity to do it anymore, and he let it go and just used it as it was. I don't have the skill myself, so we were getting it ready to go and be trashed with the rest of the furniture odds and ends that couldn't be used or donated. My cousin and I took out the drawers to lighten the load, and I said we should get rid of the back to get a better handhold--so I reached in through a cubby and punched out the back panel. On doing so...the entire hutch section inside, that holds the cubbies, little drawers, little cabinet doors and all that moved out on its' own.
"Wait...that thing is a whole unit they just installed in the frame??"
So on taking the rest of the back off, I wiggled the hutch section--and the whole thing just slid out whole in my hands. I thought to myself...y'know, I wish there was something I could do with this, because that would be totally cool to salvage something, but--waaaaiiiiit a minute...
I told my wife I am going to do something I think you will absolutely like, since we're cleaning up the kitchen tonight. Reorganized the side counter, installed this and voila! Instant repurposed barn-find coffee and tea center. She is over the moon and tinkering with where all her stuff is going, but--being what he was I think Daddy would have got a kick out of the fact we were able to extract something and make it pretty and useful again.
"Wait...that thing is a whole unit they just installed in the frame??"
So on taking the rest of the back off, I wiggled the hutch section--and the whole thing just slid out whole in my hands. I thought to myself...y'know, I wish there was something I could do with this, because that would be totally cool to salvage something, but--waaaaiiiiit a minute...
I told my wife I am going to do something I think you will absolutely like, since we're cleaning up the kitchen tonight. Reorganized the side counter, installed this and voila! Instant repurposed barn-find coffee and tea center. She is over the moon and tinkering with where all her stuff is going, but--being what he was I think Daddy would have got a kick out of the fact we were able to extract something and make it pretty and useful again.
