This project began with a carved oriental screen, presumably used as a bed headboard previously. To make the headboard wider to accommodate a bigger bed, posts of reclaimed barn wood were added to each end. Custom-turned double finials top the posts. The image doesn't do justice to the finishes on the added parts: the old gray wood responded well to a light sanding and two coats of varnish, yielding a a dark brownish finish with black streaks and all the interesting blotches and fissures and marks imprinted on the wood over decades; the finials were done to a mottled effect with a combination of staining and painting (green to match the screen) with sanding between coats.
