Groomingal - I love the idea of an old tin sign! Might be hard to find a very long and narrow one at a good price though... but it gives me an idea anyhow. Mine was sloppily painted a stark white when I got it. I sanded lightly, used a tackcloth then painted a creamier white (Mythic Ivory - Valspar seaside retreat collection). Took 3 coats with a brush. I left the old paint on the knobs and just sanded some of it off making it look a little shabby. I have a matching china cabinet too in the same room. Good luck with painting yours - I don't envy you. Just my 2 pieces wore me out. lol Had to move my hatbox. Cat was making it a bed. :-)

thanks tibbrix, the copper one is only 7lbs, so i don't think it will support the weight of glass, but the twig one is 45lbs, so perfect, but its only 22" high, too short...ugh!!! i might just order that copper one, as i need an end table and love that one!! search continues..... thanks again! how's the B/S going?? it is so awesome that u are doing it yourself!!!! Kudos to you, pat urself on the back from me!! keep us posted!! r u getting snow, snowing here, boohoo!!!

It's in bad condition, but it looks like it was once quite nice -- and could be again. It looks huge -- what are the dimensions? Could it be cut down? Would you use it as a bar, or repurpose it into something else?

Oh, I had never thought about a crate as part of the banquette--can't fit it under the seat but might be able to build it into the end! We need roughly 24" w x 24" h x 36" l so I'll play around with it. (We also need to actually adopt said dog to be sure that will be the right size, but are looking to do that in the next few weeks.) I am also laughing at the placement of the dog bowls in this old photo, because our old dog was huge and there is no way he would ever have been able to get back there to eat from those bowls since gracefulness was not one of his strengths--this must have been a staging photo when we first finished the kitchen. The back door is the primary entrance most of the time. I'd love for it to be wider than the current 32" for that reason, though. We have room to move or extend the doorway up to 48" from where the opening begins now given constraints outside. So that could look like a 48" french door (looked at those and didn't love them) or more likely a 36" door, either moved over or with a 12" sidelite adjacent to it. If we moved it over as far as it can go, it would leave about 36" clear from the wall to the door. (There is 24" clear now, but with the door swing the cabinet has to be set back a bit from that--even with the 21" d cabinet we have to use a hinge restrictor. There is also the possibility of reversing the door swing, but at least with the current design, that's not ideal.) Any door changes do turn this into a much more involved project since we'd be widening or moving the framing in a load-bearing wall (vs. just making the windows smaller, which we could do pretty easily/relatively inexpensively). @Fori I have played with the peninsula a bit but hadn't thought about having part of it narrower--that might actually make it more feasible. Will look at that again too. I also have this last option pinned to combine a stacked washer/dryer with a banquette. It looks lovely in the photo, but I feel like in our real life it would end with the table covered with laundry most of the time, so not sure it's a great fit for us. But it would allow for a 56" bench with a 30" x 30" table, or maybe a slightly bigger table up against the window. If we did this, I wouldn't enclose the machines, but would just do panels on the sides (or maybe even just freestanding).