Repurposing an Antique Radio Part 1 - Cleaning and Gutting
In the midst of all the fixer-upper house projects, leave it to me to add more projects!
But in my own defense, when you thrift and you see something cool... you can't pass it up or it won't be there next time! It's not like shopping at Target!
Sooo... when I saw this antique radio at one of my local thrift stores, I couldn't pass it up.
It was sitting outside and at first, I wasn't too excited about it until I walked up and saw the $12.99 price tag! 😲
I knew exactly what I wanted to make with it right away.
You see, I've had half of an old steamer trunk sitting around for about 3 years now waiting for me to transform it into a bar but for some reason, I just couldn't get my head wrapped around how it was going to work... it was overwhelming to me. So there it sat.
But as soon as I saw this radio, I knew it was going to work SO.MUCH.BETTER! It already had shelves. It already had the coolness factor. And, it had an awesome price to boot! So I paid for it, loaded it up, and started transforming it as soon as I got home!
Repurposing an Antique Radio Part 1 - Cleaning and Gutting
I'll be sharing the transformation of this old radio in several different posts with videos sharing my progress.
In part one I'm cleaning it up and pulling out the old radio parts. Don't worry, someone before me had cut the cords so there wasn't even a way to test it to see if it still worked.
My parents had one similar to this when I was growing up except the front of it opened and there was a record player inside too.
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