Over the years, Brian and I have sort of become pickers. We go to estate sales, yard sales, even pick things up on the side of the road. We have piles of salvaged wood and tons of old furniture begging for a face lift. Brian is very talented and can build pretty much anything out of wood. (He built me a pallet coffee table for Christmas that I will be posting soon.) Sometimes I get tired of only being the design eye and want to get my hands dirty. This is the perfect project for us to do together. We have made these wooden crosses on a couple of different occasions and plan to again in the future.
We have a trash can full of old trim and crown molding that we have collected over time. Brian's dad has given us a lot of scraps left over from various jobs and we bought a room full of scrap wood at an estate sale recently.
These are very simple to make. We picked through the old trim and paired up pieces that we liked. We decided the various sizes and angles we wanted to use and Brian cut them to size. We then painted them using different colors and techniques. We painted some solid, some whitewashed, etc. After they dried, we sanded some of the edges so they would look distressed and old.
The final step was to to go through all of the old hardware we have collected and choose what we wanted to use for each cross. Some of them were easier to attach than others.
The possibilities are really endless with this project. We have made key holders, coat hooks, and used old jewelry. I also think it would be fun to paint them bold colors or modge podge fun papers or photos onto the wood. I love doing projects that have so many possibilities to be creative!
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