New Life For An Old Luggage Rack

My hubby, A.K.A. "Juan", travels a lot.  When he packs, he uses this old luggage rack we bought at the Container Store many years ago.

Notice the nice "chew" marks this girl added to it when she was in the teething stage?

(Orphan Annie or Annie Girl)

 He leaves it sitting in our bathroom to await his return while he's gone.  Here's the problem...  I stay home and have to look at it in our bathroom.  I'm working on the master bedroom and bathroom.  This luggage rack just didn't do it for me.  Then, one day while at Frisco Mercantile, inspiration struck!  I saw some old books covered in upholstery webbing.  And, I stopped by the booth that sells Annie Sloan chalk paint as usual.  I went home, saw the luggage rack and knew something had to change.

  I got the ball rolling by ordering this upholstery webbing off Amazon.  

While I waited for the webbing to arrive, I pulled the old nylon straps off the luggage rack, gave it a coat of Annie Sloan Graphite and a second coat of French Linen.  I sanded lightly and applied a coat of clear wax and a coat of dark wax.

I used my trusty staple gun to attach the webbing to the luggage rack.  Here is the result...

Fancy photo editing complements of Instagram.  I'm soonerborn on Instagram if you want to follow me there.   While I'm not happy when Juan goes out of town, I do have his pretty luggage rack to look at while he's gone.  And, as long as it is functional, he doesn't mind!

Thanks for stopping by!

K~