gorfchampion
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Most of you have seen the old theater seats from the 1930s I have on one side of my arcade. (If not just check out my photobucket page in my signature)
Well I needed something else on the other side for people to sit on. I found this old bench at an antique swap meet. It came out of a boy's junior high school locker room. It was just under 6 feet long, which is too long to fit nicely in my arcade. I cut it down to 4ft 3inches so it will seat 3 people comfortably.
I then scraped off 20 pieces of gum (yep, 20), sanded down the wood, then primed and painted it with stripes of red, orange, and yellow. I clearcoated it after that. I just like the 80s look of the stripes, so I went with it. I sandblasted the legs, then primed and painted those black (rattle can). I speckled the legs with yellow and orange paint using a toothbrush. You really can't see the speckles in my dimly lit arcade, but oh well, I did it anyway.
Just another cool place to sit down in The Lost Highway Arcade...
Here's some before pics:
Well I needed something else on the other side for people to sit on. I found this old bench at an antique swap meet. It came out of a boy's junior high school locker room. It was just under 6 feet long, which is too long to fit nicely in my arcade. I cut it down to 4ft 3inches so it will seat 3 people comfortably.
I then scraped off 20 pieces of gum (yep, 20), sanded down the wood, then primed and painted it with stripes of red, orange, and yellow. I clearcoated it after that. I just like the 80s look of the stripes, so I went with it. I sandblasted the legs, then primed and painted those black (rattle can). I speckled the legs with yellow and orange paint using a toothbrush. You really can't see the speckles in my dimly lit arcade, but oh well, I did it anyway.
Just another cool place to sit down in The Lost Highway Arcade...
Here's some before pics:

