Giant Window Hutch!

Wowza – 2 days in a row with blog posts!  Feels good to have a little bit of extra time (and motivation) to get these done

I honestly cant even remember how long ago i built this hutch – its been years though.  I would have to say its been about 4 years now – i cant believe i haven’t posted about it!  And i looked high and low for pics of the build and sadly they are gone.  I remembered a few weeks ago it was because i used my old android phone and when that old phone broke, i lost all my pics as i hadn’t saved them and android didn’t have a cloud like my iPhone does.

Anyways – this is what i started with…when we built our house 10 years ago, i thought we were going to love this built in desk.  We could use it to stay organized, kids could do homework there.  Nah – it was a big fat junk collector!

So i ripped that sucker down, sold it and built this…

I was flipping through Facebook one day and came across these giant old windows that were for sale.  They were amazing!  They still had their original casings on them and i knew they would be perfect for a hutch.

Then – a while before that, i had gotten this old table for free from one of our neighbors.  We used it in our backyard for a bit, but it was falling apart and either needed to be rebuilt or used for something else.

Like i said, i don’t have any pics of the building process anymore, but i basically just took the table apart and used everything i could to rebuild it into one long table to fit the windows.  I had some old wood that had come off the back of a trailer bed, so i used that for the length of the table.  I also wanted a shelf on the bottom, so i cut the legs and used some more reclaimed wood for the shelf.

Then i basically just built a box around the window frames and added some shelves.  I painted the back with Sweet Pickins Milk Paint in Pantry Door (we didn’t have that color at the time, but its the same color) – i love the green against all my white dishes!  The frame of the windows and the table legs/wood were all just left their original finishes.

And how cute are those handles!  I found those at Hobby Lobby.  Wreath gets changed out normally for the seasons – the one i have on there now is from Michael’s.

I love how the hutch fills up the whole wall and makes the space look bigger than when the desk was there.  This thing is huge!  Its very deceiving in pics – its about 8 ft tall and 7 ft wide – tons and tons of storage!

It made the most perfect spot to store all my old milk cans!

Getting so close to my house being “done” – i still have a few bigger projects to do like this railing and i need to decide on something to go on the wall in the stairwell.

My favorite view in the house!