The last time I was in Pier 1, there was this fancy piece of furniture that goes in the entry way of your house with hooks and baskets. My research brought me to Pier 1's "Alcott Hall Tree" at $399.
$399! There was no way I was going to convince Greg to spend that. Craigslist was the next option. Didn't fair much better. The ones that weren't 100 years old and ugly where about $300. Fail!
DIY? I came upon this beauty on Pinterst : http://ana-white.com/2012/08/plans/fancy-hall-tree
Totally do-able!
On the weekend that we were to start our project we randomly decided to take a trip to the seattle Habitat for Humanity outlet store. I had been doing a lot of research on "Hall Tree's" and I had come across a few plans that used old reclaimed wood like an old door, so I gravitated towards the used doors.
and this is the treasure we found! $25. I showed it to Greg, and he agreed we could not let this cool door go to waste.
So we got to work. First we hit it with some mineral oil to clean the old, dusty stuff.
Then we applied stripper to soften the veneer and current stain.
Then we used a chisel and sanding technique to remove it and get it back to the raw exposed wood.
We built the base for the seat and cubbies for the baskets out of a regular 3/4 plywood sheet that we cute into 16" sheets.
Add some trim and molding
Stain with sun-bleach stain color and add hooks.
TA-DA! Hall tree!
