
28 Aug Vintage Cement Trowel Hooks on Reclaimed Barn Wood
Last week we ran across an old collapsed barn. When Opportunity Knocks… tear into an old barn and re-purpose that wood!
The barn wood was free for the pickin’ so we dropped everything and started tearing into the remnants of it in search of pieces we could re-purpose into table tops, signs and hooks.
It was hot and the debris was full of broken glass and rusty nails ~ we were in our glory!
We scored lots of great wood for table tops. I’m hoping to use this for a vintage library table I’ve been hoarding.
My sister Cathy spocked a ton of shutters. I’m not sure what’s she’s planning to do with these.
We climbed, heaved, hawed, pulled, pounded, wiggled, and pried to get the pieces we wanted. This piece weighed A TON! I couldn’t move it an inch until my niece’s husband showed up. In two minutes he had it over the edge and on the ground. SHOW OFF!
After spending hours tearing pieces apart, we had three truck loads of wood.
I came home absolutely filthy, covered from head to toe with dirt and blood running down my legs from all the cuts I had incurred. I was so excited about the wood that I never even realized I had cut myself. (yes I’m up to date with my Tetanus, you have to be when you’re as clumsy as I am). Nothing a good ole’ Popsicle can’t remedy!
I’m seriously out of shape and was too pooped out to start pulling out all those nails so we temporarily just piled it up at the end of our driveway. Oh, where are all the HGTV guys when you need them?
As tired as I was, I was still determined to make at least one creation before the sun set.
I grabbed some old tools to use as hooks. I picked some of these up when I was at the World’s Longest Yard Sale in Tennessee a couple weeks ago
and scored the others during my pickin trip with Karen Berg of Redoux Interiors when I was in California this spring for a Fundraising Paint Workshop.
I smashed my thumb a million times trying to pound the old nails through the metal, but determination prevailed!
This is exactly what I envisioned when I came across these old trowels
I’m serious, I’ve wanted to put these together for the longest time, just needed the right piece of wood.
Can’t wait to show Karen what I did with the trowels I found and share this with Donna from Funky Junk Interiors, the best junkers on the planet ~ I think they would have enjoyed digging through the collapsed barn too!!
What unique things do you like to make hooks out of?
a hui hou kau kou! Shelly
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a hui hou ~ Shelly
Maureen
Posted at 23:16h, 28 AugustTalk about nirvana! lol!
Shelly
Posted at 09:07h, 30 Augustno doubt yeah?
Cyndi Hulst
Posted at 11:57h, 29 AugustGreat job on this piece – I love it!!!
Shelly
Posted at 07:50h, 30 AugustThanks Cyndi!
Vicky
Posted at 12:02h, 29 AugustI am so jealous. Barn wood, shutters, windows. Are you sure that you weren’t in heaven??? LOVE, love your trowel hanger. Something else to hunt. YIPPEE. Thanks for sharing. Forwarded your post to my friend that came to Holland with me and she just finished a night stand with your paints. I told her to team teach with you and sis if that tells you anything. LOVELY
Shelly
Posted at 07:50h, 30 AugustI know right! I was so geeked to find those windows Vicky ~ I was standing on layers of shards of glass and had to move a bunch of heavy pieces of wood to get to them. Can’t wait to redo those and I’d love to see what your friend painted!
Beth
Posted at 22:41h, 29 AugustWow. All that beautiful reclaimed wood!!! I’m so jealous! We don’t have barns out here!
Sigh.
Shelly
Posted at 07:45h, 30 AugustCollapsed barns are the norm around here but you sure never hear of anyone giving it away. Where are you Beth?
Mimi
Posted at 23:11h, 29 AugustGaah! I am totally freaking out I am so jealous 😉 How awesome for you! Can’t wait to see what you do with it all.
Shelly
Posted at 07:44h, 30 AugustWish there were more hours in a day Mimi! I’d love to make some of the awesome picture frames you make but I don’t have the time right now to knock them out.
Kathy Nielsen
Posted at 01:38h, 30 AugustWhat a find! I can tell you’re already spinning ideas for all that wood. Great job!
Shelly
Posted at 07:43h, 30 AugustKathy, My head is ALWAYS spinning whether I want it to or not 😀
Suzie
Posted at 12:19h, 30 AugustLove what you did and am your newest follower! And I’m happy that I can proudly say that first picture of all that barn wood is freakin’ amazing – and know that there are others that just “get it”…..lol!
shelly andrade
Posted at 21:49h, 01 SeptemberI know right Susie! There are the people who wrinkle up their nose and think you’ve lost it and others who are like “cool!”
Funky Junk Interiors
Posted at 14:30h, 01 SeptemberYou got me. But then you knew you would, didn’t you? 🙂 I adore this crazy little number! Who needs to tile anyway?
Featured you on I Love That Junk and various other cool places. 🙂
shelly andrade
Posted at 21:44h, 01 SeptemberCool, thanks Donna! I am truly humbled!!! Headed back tomorrow to see if I can get those ladders.
Cathy@My1929Charmer
Posted at 14:42h, 01 SeptemberMy family is in the masonry business, so I can appreciate the masonry trowels! See then laying around my whole life, and never knew they could look so cool! I have not problem finding the trowels so maybe my hubs next project. Great and clever idea!
shelly andrade
Posted at 21:53h, 01 Septemberthen you totally need one of these in your home Cathy!!!
Linda
Posted at 18:01h, 02 SeptemberI love your blog – sooo inspiring!! Please, keep sharing your wonderful projects!!
Shelly
Posted at 18:52h, 02 SeptemberThanks Linda! I’ll try ~ I just ran across a bunch of things I’ve never posted about, I could use more hours in a day 😉
JaneEllen
Posted at 22:29h, 02 SeptemberOh my stars, I’m so jealous, what a find. I’d have been in there with you digging, getting dirty and sweaty. Those shutters and windows, Oh to die for. Silly being so excited about dirty wood, shutters and broken old windows but what treasures to make better treasures out of. What a wonderful score.
We got to get some old bard wood in KY but had to leave it along with lots of other treasure behind when we moved to CO.
Shelly
Posted at 23:01h, 02 SeptemberThere’s still more too! If I have time, I want to go back out there and get those ladders and some more treasures that only people like us truly appreciate 😉
Audrey Zumwalt
Posted at 23:13h, 03 SeptemberYour trowel hooks are so clever. I have collected several trowels and now I know what to do with them. I would love to find an old barn being torn down … finding treasures in that pile of stuff would be so much fun.
Those boards are wonderful.
Thanks for sharing.
Audrey Z. @ Timeless Treasures … new follower
shizzledesign
Posted at 08:09h, 04 SeptemberThanks Audrey!
Good Time Charlie
Posted at 16:44h, 04 SeptemberIt looks so freaking cool!!!! I love all the pictures, I wish I had been there with you! I love all those Shutters your sister got. I am so copying this project. Featuring at my party tomorrow too. I miss you friend!
shelly andrade
Posted at 21:19h, 06 SeptemberI took a few more shots of it before taking to it to the store last night, I’ll add them to the post later on tonight, we’re having a sleepover birthday batch right now.
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Kelly
Posted at 13:17h, 06 SeptemberI think this is one of the most unique and innovative repurposed pieces I have seen! You are so creative. It’s one of those situations that make you think “hmmm why didn’t I think of that?!”
Excellent idea and a great inspiration to others in finding new uses out of old things.
Love it!
shelly andrade
Posted at 21:15h, 06 SeptemberAwe, thanks Kelly!!!
irene grubb
Posted at 01:08h, 21 OctoberI read this post when you first posted it a few weeks ago. I would have been in heaven digging through those treasures.
My three favorite things…old wood, anything rusty and rusty old tools. I loved your trowel hooks and have been keeping an eye out for them. I scored today! I found 3 in fabulous rusty patina and will be using them on the potting bench I am building. Thanks for all the inspiration.
Shelly
Posted at 04:28h, 21 OctoberSweet! I usually don’t even post about things like this because I don’t want to deplete my own supply but there’s always new treasures to be found. Have fun with your project!
Susan Homeroad
Posted at 19:51h, 21 OctoberHey! I have the exact same trowels 3 of them and I’ve also been waiting for just the right piece of wood.. I’m wondering how you drilled through the metal in the trowel. Thanks so much.
Susan
shelly andrade
Posted at 20:59h, 21 OctoberI used some really old nails and pounded them through. I’m sure there’s a better way as I beat the heck out of my thumbs in the process because they were very hard to pound through. Have fun!!
Lisa
Posted at 15:00h, 03 NovemberSusan, I did this same thing and I would recommend drilling! I just used a normal drill bit, drilled slowly and on top of another piece of wood – so as to not drill into the floor. I was so surprised, it worked like a charm!
Feathering My Nest
Posted at 09:44h, 11 JanuaryIngenious use of old trowels!… so beautifully rustic!… and WOWEEE that was an amazing pile to pick through! – lucky lady! 🙂
xo
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