I wish I still had a photo from those two church pews that I picked at the curb a couple of months ago. All I have is a picture I took after I turned them into two wall tables; I had them in my booth at the antique market in McKinney last month. They didn’t really grab anyone’s attention -if I don’t sell an item one month then I’d usually bring it back the next month, but nobody even looked at them, so I took it back home and took it apart to make several items out of it. The beautiful wooden legs could be candle holders, I thought.

Here’s how the pews looked like after I restored them (they were dark brown wood before and pretty beat up) in my antique booth December 2012:

And yesterday, I used the poles to make candle holders. I kept the remaining parts for other projects.

Then I cut the poles into different sizes:

After that, I used scrap wood from previous projects and cut out round disks for the top and bottom parts (I first finished a template):

Then I screwed the template onto the cut out wood:

And then it went onto the router machine to get the same size like my precut template (my hubby taught me yesterday how to use it, now I am looking for more projects I could use this thing for…maybe wooden letters?!).

I used a rounding bit to round the corners, it looks like this (I used the image from Home Depot):

..and first glued, predrilled holes and then screwed the tops onto the future candle holder:

Added the bottom parts (first glued) with three screws:

And then I painted them with white chalk paint. I made my own chalk paint using unsanded grout and regular water based wall paint (that should be another post):

I think I am going to keep one set for myself; I have three more, they will be for sale next weekend at the Third Monday Trade Days in McKinney in my booth!

I found similar candle holders at Pottery Barn for $29.50 for the small one and $69 for the biggest one. I think mine are just as nice (if not nicer…) AND mine aren’t new, they are from recycled material and will be a killer deal since I am selling them as a set