Feeling Trunky

Happy Friday to you!  I hope you were hankering for some trunk makeovers, because I’ve got some in store for you right now. In store?!? Ha! Get it?! Trunks?  They store stuff? Oh, nevermind.

When Jenny discovered this trunk at an antique mall, it had been abused, forgotten and heavily Sharpied.  But with the help of some chalk paint and vintage graphics, she made it look like an old trunk is supposed to look: like it’s proudly carrying evening gowns across the Atlantic, not harboring dirty laundry and dirtier magazines. See it on her blog Ava Blake Creations.

 

But wait, there’s more! Jenny actually has quite a few trunk makeovers on her site, and here is another of my favorites, en route to Paris via rolling farmland. I feel like that after picture is the beginning of a novel I’d like to read.  See more right here.

And here’s an idea if you have a little trunk. Jen’s was too small to sit there on the floor by itself, but too big to put on a shelf or a countertop. Hmmm, how about adding a set of long legs and making a trunk table! Did you see that coming? I think this would be perfect for filling a small and narrow space. Head on over to Jen’s blog, Girl in the Garage to see exactly how she did it.

Ok, I love this next story.  This rusty old hunk of a trunk caught Jamie’s eye at a yard sale, but she ultimately ended up leaving it behind.  It was her husband who insisted on going back to get it!  One hundred times out of a hundred it is the other way around, at least in my experience.  Anyway, once they got it home, she managed to seal off the rust with paint, though she left the original wood slats as-is, and I couldn’t love it harder.  See it on her blog Better With Age.

And lastly, this before trunk of Sarah’s was giving off major coffin vibes. Nobody wants that.  Well, I can think of maybe two people who might want that, but they don’t actually exist in reality.

So, she cleaned it up big time, then had her local ironsmith hammer her a custom set of corner brackets. No biggie, doesn’t everyone have an ironsmith? I talk to my local ironsmith like, every other day.  But seriously, it really gave it that extra special touch it needed, and then she topped (bottomed?) the whole thing off with casters from an old engine cart. Just fabulous. See it on her blog Funcycled.