Please Be Seated

So two winters ago our church got new-used pews. Ours were somewhere less than 100 years old, and many were splitting and cracking. Well, we took one of those pews home... My plan was to put it at the kitchen table. These pews are nearly 12 feet long and it turns out it wouldn't fit in any room. It sat outside for a while and ended up in the basement as our recycling/sorting station. Last weekend we brought it outside again, and here is the transformation:

Deciding where to make the cut.

Jeff's Dad did all the hard work.

Jacob says "It's like a pew."

3 coats of Royal Indigo

I left the original wood on the back.