None the Worse for Wear: Shutters

I've always seen people doing cool things with window shutters. 

Well....BAM!

Guess who got her hands on some! This girl! My friend M's neighbors were giving away some shutters so I grabbed as many as I could carry.

I kinda winged this one and everything turned out pretty well except for one thing...I'll get to that a bit later.

This is before. 

First, you will want to take off all of the hinges.

I needed to call my brother because I couldn't figure out how to change the head on the power drill. 

Please see the Mozzarella Stick blog for nail info. :)

Got it. No big deal.

I though it was best to take off all of the hinges and then dust them...no bendy connecty shutters while you are trying to clean=no pinched fingers. I found that out the hard way.

I wanted that rustic look to my shutters so I took a candle to them. Scrape it all over. That means corners, edges, and flat space. 

Painting: this is where I had a bit of an oopsie. I knew I wanted a rustic look so I only schalacked it. That means you kinda just throw it on there. 

It did look rustic. 

The oopsie: The shutters do not open and close anymore. I think I went a little too loosie goosie while schalacking because the paint got in the cracks and it created a sad glue-effect. 

Oh well. They will still look cool for my future kitchen. :)

After I painted them I let them dry for a while.

Then I put the hinges, hooks, and knobs back on.

Botta-bing botta-boom: rustic shutters. 

None the worse for wear is right.