The Hall Tree is Finished

She is done!  I am so excited it is my favorite thing I have built so far.  If you remember from my last post I built the Hall Tree to help raise money for my Relay for Life team.  To read about that and see a tutorial on how I built it go here.  

I used 1x pine boards and half a sheet of bead board paneling for the back.  It is not perfect, there are several flaws but I am going to fight the urge to point out everything I did wrong and just focus on what I did right.

I love the bead board on the back.  The cubbies could take larger baskets but I had these.  I am a basket hoarder so I'm not sure I will donate the baskets even though I haven't used them in years. 

The bottom opens for storage. The bottom panel insets are smooth which I think keeps it from being too much bead board (if there is such a thing).

I lightly distressed the piece with my fancy tool I talked about here and sand paper.  I also used a dark brown glaze then finished it with wax.  Side note: Beadboard paneling is not a good first project to try out wax for the first time.

I staged this baby in my living room corner because I have no other free walls that are big enough in this place.  My trumeau mirror is usually occupying this space.   Just to keep it real I thought I’d share that that picture hanging next to the hall tree is half covering an awkward window.  I took it out of the closet just for this photo shoot.  Oh the power of cropping, gotta love it.  The rest of the room is a disaster with all the furniture from this corner in the middle of the room.  See I couldn’t finish this post without telling on myself ;) 

I hope the person who wins her loves her as much as I do!


Want to make your own? 

Detailed plans for hutch & bench are now on ana-white.com