Coat Tree Street Sign

This oak coat tree has lived with me for 27 years.

It's held many a fall jacket, and many a little toddler snowsuit.

And for most of the 27 years I had an idea for it.

Now you know how long it can take me to get around to things.... 27 years!

I always thought it would be fun to have old street signs top this coat tree.

But I didn't have any old street signs.

Then about 7 years ago I picked up a couple signs at an antique shop.  I don't remember how much they were, but I know I wouldn't of paid a lot for them.

For those mathematicians out there, that means for 7 of those 27 years I had the components I needed.

I have been using various colors of Maison Blanche paints, products, paint techniques, and waxes for the past five months and I like working with all the products in my arsenal.

Pick a color, brush it on - my kind of getting down to business in the paint department.  I didn't have to sand off the old finish, didn't have to wait days to get it done.  The no prep part of painting with Maison Blanche keeps me coming back.

The oak tree received a coat of Ivory, of which I was supplied by the Maison Blanche Paint Company, along with a creamy coat of their dark brown wax.

After one coat of Ivory

 The old brass hooks were removed and I spray painted them a hammered bronze.

Brawn attached the signs on top with a wood dowel drilled and glued right into the top piece of the coat tree.

I painted both those pieces black and the signs were simply screwed right to the dowel.

 I considered painting the whole thing black, but I wanted it to match the Cottage Bench Headboard  that I painted last month also with Maison Blanche Ivory paint.

The coat tree sits directly across from the bench.

This tree is tall, and taking it outside for photos was like dancing with a long gangly dude who had too much to drink.

And yes I know what that is like, but I'm not naming names.

The leaves had started to fall off the trees, but there was still a bit of color left at the corner of 6th and 8th.

The pegs on the bottom were so the little kids could reach to hang up their jackets themselves.

The hooks turned out excellent.  I don't usually have good luck when I spray paint, this was a first.

I danced around with this thing for a while then put it right back in the corner it had come from, and promptly filled it with fall jackets.... which were promptly exchanged for winter coats when the polar vortex arrived this week.

The Maison Blanche painting team consists of the talented bloggers listed below.
Please click over to their blogs to see what they've whipped up for 

the month of November, as well as what Maison Blanche colors they chose.

November projects dedicated to our fellow painter Doreen.  

No she didn't kick the bucket, she'd be painting it if
she wasn't sitting this one out and recuperating from stuff.

Doreen from Hymns & Verses

Debbie from ReFresh ReStyle

Karin from Art is Beauty

Shayna from Woodgrain Cottage

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