Our "new" piece of furniture

We have an old Lane hope chest, bought in 1992, the year I graduated from the University of Kansas. It is filled with family mementoes and old stuff, pictures, papers, etc.

But it was beginning to look a little shabby, especially the beige covering on the top, which was getting really threadbare.

So...we went and bought a piece of upholstery fabric to match the Southwestern style of our house, and John recovered the chest. It was his first time doing something like this, and it came out really nice, didn't it? It's like having a new piece of furniture.