Bookcase - Stained and Stenciled

Hi, there! It's me, SJ. This is my attempt to show my portrait for Darcy's P52 blog party. Well, I can't just show myself posing in front of a camera so I thought, why not share how I stained and stenciled our old bookcase?



My husband is known to keep things like forever. This bookcase is one among the things that he has been keeping before we got married. It was so old and faded. Consider these as the before pictures.



I stained it using Minwax Wood Finish.



I was about to apply polyurethane when I decided that since it looked too boring, I can experiment by stenciling it.



Next came the process of applying polyurethane.



The stenciled design really stands out on the dark stain and (in a sing-song way) I LOVE IT!



Then hubby started sneezing. His allergies kicked in.



We had to carry this back in the garage. My excitement to put our books back in the bookcase and some other trinkets was shortlived :(



I have a feeling that we might have a visit to Ikea soon to get us some Expedit shelves. Oh well, some projects succeed, some don't. That's the nature of the DIY niche.



How about you? Any projects that you thought will succeed but had to be shelved?


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