We had no garage.. And here’s that same wall of the garage after:.

I read that a little vinegar mixed with salt and applied with a scouring pad does the trick.I’m not totally sure if it worked, but I did notice the finish becoming less shiny and yellowy and more raw looking.

It was a bit of a lighter color as well.So it must have done something.. Next I rubbed the whole thing with a bit of sandpaper.At first I felt like I was doing something terribly wrong, but in the aftermath, I see if really did help the look overall..

So at this point it just looked like a scratched up, slightly lighter-colored 1993 brass door knob..I read somewhere that heating the brass up with a flame would help it tarnish quickly..

I grabbed my candle lighter and got to firing that brass knob.. At a certain point it occurred to me that what I was actually doing was holding a flame up to a part of my beloved house and heating that part up more and more.. Um, no.. As usual, I didn’t want to wait to see the results of the natural tarnishing so I grabbed my trusty dollar store craft paints and did a little faux magic, instead of you know, setting my house aflame.. -Wipe on a dab of black everywhere, including in the nooks and crannies.

Wipe off.. -Wipe on a dab of burnt umber everywhere.Next, we had to create our counter top out of barn wood, as well as the lower shelf, which is made from new pine..

The top is actually made from three barn wood siding pieces held together with wood glue and dowels.We held everything together with clamps in every direction to make sure things would dry to be straight and strong.

After a couple of hours, we removed the clamps and we were good to go!.The lower shelf was created in much the same way, using a long piece of pine shelving and then adding strips of two-by-two all around the edges to give it a chunkier, more substantial look.