This bench has been a part of my life since my earliest age. It was indeed storing toys and costumes at my grandfather’s house, and also served as a projectile cover during mythical (imaginary) battles with my cousins!
I was lucky to inherit its care, and it can now live a second life in my basement studio, where every square centimeter is counted. Since I like starting from a clean base, I sanded the entirety of the boards to go back to bare wood, avoiding a long succession of varnish and paint layers that would inevitably have happened otherwise.
