We found this...
As you can tell, it's a little beat up, but it's solid wood and it was only thirty bucks! After staring at it for a few minutes, we decided that we wanted to take on the project of stripping it and refinishing it. Pa Paw came over and let us borrow his tools and gave us a few words of wisdom. And then it began. A really really long day of sweating, sanding, and stripping the finish off.
We had no idea the wood underneath all of that stain was so light!
We sanded everything that we could, and then we used a liquid stripper to take the rest off. Let me just say, that stuff is stinkin messy!
Finally, we got a coat of the cherry stain on. Don't worry, we didn't actually stain it in the apartment.
After a couple of coats of stain, a finish, and new hardware, this is what we came out with
Our conclusions from this project:
-Refinishing was a lot harder than we anticipated
-We have a very small balcony..
-It was definitely a thirty dollars well spent
