The House of Plunder

My sister had this guy working for her for a weekend... can't remember his name... but he helped by cleaning up plaster she was wacking around all over the place... and he informed us that there as a magical place out in Iuka, Illinois called the House of Plunder. 

Of course, being adventurous... we found the House of Plunder on weekend... they are only open on Friday and Saturday.

So, anyway there is this older fellow and his adult children who run the House of Plunder which is a massive thrift store with mostly building materials on sale... that the guy has probably purchased at auctions and closeouts.

The House of Plunder dude informed us... on the last visit... that he has a House of Plunder furniture outlet.. hahah... next to the Iuka post office.. which of course I HAD to visit.. and I found this treasure.... and bought it for 20 bucks. ... What a steal, right?

Now, I know what you're thinking... what the heck is she going to do with this....

Right....

Well, my thought was to turn it into a "booksafe"... stick some shelves inside to house some of the book collection.

I put a new back on... and bottom.... and filled in the doors with some pieces of luan...
So, I decided to use some metal roof flashing and give it a vintage pie safe look....I poked a lot of holes in the flashing using a hammer and nail.... used a lot of Liquid Nail to glue down the edges onto the wood... trimmed it up...  

and painted it.... and I got free paint at Ace Hardware because I discovered they were giving away free quarts of paint during the month of March... every Saturday... so that was cool to paint it up for free... and I used the sponge painting technique.... and here it tis.... doesn't have inside shelves yet... but will do those in a couple weeks.

It will reside in the dining room on the wall between the windows...

This picture shows it almost completed... but you get the idea.... will put up more pictures after I get the shelves inside.