A Sneak Peek

This morning I have been out in the garage working on this some more.

As soon as it dries I can add the poly!

Hope your weekend is going well! Off to Costco!:)

All in an afternoon.

We have had this piece since the beginning of the year.

 It has been hiding out in the garage in desperate need of some loving. Why I was ever possessed to work on it in 100 degree heat I will never know. Let me say I will NOT be doing anymore pieces till fall unless they can be done indoors. It is just too hot. 

Reason why I HATE my mouse sander. Ended up hand sanding most of that out.

Popped open my Duck Egg chalk paint. I LOVE me some duck egg! I orginally wanted my base color to be Chateau Grey but I really think my can is bad so I held off on using any of it.

Top re stained and one coat of duck egg. I would have loved to have just finished this piece with duck egg but it would not have gone right in the room this is for.

So on top went Old White. I will be honest and say it took two coats. Not sure how anybody can get good coverage with just one coat unless maybe they use a sprayer. 

I then used a medium grade sand paper and lightly sanded the entire piece. I LOVE the fact that you can easily sand away any imperfections in the paint job! This and the fact that I did not have to sand the entire piece before painting make this paint great!

Here is the final result. I used a clear wax and then my Jacobean wax. Let me tell you that if I had not already had experience painting furniture this process would not have gone so smoothly. It is a very time consuming process and once you start waxing you have to continue. 

If you are going to use a light wax and a dark wax with the chalk paint be sure to NOT put the dark wax on first or you will not be able to get it off. Make sure the area you are working on is fully covered in the clear wax first! If not you may end up having to repaint that area.

 I am hoping to be able to find new pulls sometime soon. I may just spray these with some ORB. Not sure yet.

Hope your weekend was a great one!

Untouchables

Don't forget to stop on by my Appreciation Party ladies! You have till August 1 to think of any question you would like to ask Annie Sloan either about herself as a designer or her  ever so popular chalk paint. Just click here!:) 

 Kathy over at Creative Home Expressions recently shared what pieces of furniture in her home are off limits to painting. She then wanted to know what pieces were off limits in our homes. Here are my untouchables.

I purchased not one but two of these fabulous french country chairs last year from the local yard sale site. They were only $25 a piece and a steal in my book. There was not a thing wrong with them and solid as can be. I love all of the embellishing and could never even think of painting these lovelies. Now mind you I have seen similar painted and love those as well but for these they will forever stay in their original state. If I ever find some extra ones though they may just get painted!;) 

This is a piece that The Nana bought for us back when we moved into our first home. I have always loved vintage pieces and this was my very piece. 

I purchased this french country bench right after we moved into our current home. I just love it and I do not foresee ever painting it unless it gets beat up from wear and tear from two little boys. 

This is our little dining set in the breakfast room. I purchased the table at Lowes back before The Hubster and I were married. It was the very last one and had DISPLAY stamped on the top in red ink. I talked them into selling it to me for just $25! I took it to my future in laws garage and started working on it with The Nana. 

This was the first piece of furniture I ever refinished. I can not imagine changing it in anyway but I do need to sand the top down and re stain it. After ten years and two boys it needs a fresh coat.

Our chairs in here will never be painted either. I purchased them at Lowes around the same time as the table. They were on clearance for just $25 for a set of two!! I guess I have been a bargain shopper from the very beginning. I can remember The Papa putting a set of these together just so we could see what they looked like. One set was enough for him!;) I did just recently added the iron scrolly piece to two of the chairs though.

This is our kitchen island that I transformed awhile back. It took quite a few months but so worth it to me. I just love this piece to pieces and it would seriously pain me to ever have to change it! You can see its transformation here.

Now this piece is the piece of all pieces. It will NEVER get touched. The Papa made this for me and The Hubster as a wedding gift! I just love it in every way! It is a piece we will cherish forever and hopefully pass down generation to generation.

So there you have my untouchables. Funny thing I noticed when doing this post was that $25 is the magic number for me. Most everything I purchased was $25! How funny!

What are your untouchables?

For Sale

Well I did it, I listed a few of my furniture pieces on the local yard sale site this past Thursday. I was a bit nervous to say the least. Every morning since then I would repost in hopes of getting a message that somebody was interested.

I listed this cute lil' island that I had painted and distressed after we moved in. It was in perfect condition and I hated to think of letting it go but we no longer needed it. So it got a coat of poly which I had never gotten around to doing and drug outside for some cute pics. Can't show ya just how cute the pics were cause that would give away another project I have been working on!;)
Anywho, I got a bite this evening and she came by to look at it and well this lil' island now has a new home. So excited to say the least as I keep telling myself it was the cute distressed black paint job that sold her on it!;) Broke even on this piece which is pretty darn good since we bought her almost two years ago. It is like we got to use her for free. 

Of course I also listed my lil' frenchy side table.  Still waiting on some bites on this one. I may drop the price a tad in the next few days maybe. 

Littliest and I picked this table up last week.

We came home and got started right away on it. Littliest was adamant that he was going to get the groody plastic things off the bottom of the legs for me.

One very determined little boy he is! Needless to say he ended up riding his bike while I popped them off. 

Here is a sneak peek thus far! I hope to have it finished by the weekend. Can't wait to share the reveal. Keeping fingers crossed it turns out ok looking.

Hope your week started off well y'all and thanx for stopping by! Off to take a bath and read my new cook books that came in the mail. 

All Because Of A Tablecloth!

This is what I have been working in the past few days as well as other projects. The cabinet we have owned for 9 years now and it use to sit in our foyer. It came from Ikea. I always wanted to do something to it but never did. I was  too chicken and when we moved it ended up in my sewing room for fabric storage. If you remember from a previous post I was hard headed and moved it on my own with a hutch on top and busted the leg off the back. The Papa is in town and so the cabinet came downstairs to get repaired and so it HAD to be painted while it was down here.

WARNING: You may need to wear your shades to view the following pictures!:)

You may be thinking oh my how scary and to tell you truth I was thinking the exact same thing when I opened this up. I could not believe I was actually going to be using this color.

Doubt still lingered but I charged on with the faith that all would end well.

Decided that was just too much Sherwin Williams Nervy Hue 6917 so I added some SW Vanillin to the middle of the doors. I also used Vanillin as the base coat.

The hard part begins. I always hand sand everything even though I own a palm sander. The palm sander always clogs up and leave marks I can never get out.

After some distressing I added some stain to tone down the Nervy Hue and also to add some more aging to the piece. 

The neighbors all think I am crazy I am sure since I carried this piece out of the garage by myself with camera in tow to take pics. The sun actually makes the color off but further down you can see the true color.

I love how the top turned out.

Aren't these the coolest knobs ever!?

Here let's get a closer look. They are from HobLob and a whopping $7.99 a piece but this week half off so in my cart they jumped! In this pic you can see the true color of the cabinet.

And just in case you are wondering why on earth I chose Nervy Hue here is the pic of my inspiration. I hit the color pretty dead on to the April Cornell tablecloth turned curtains in my sewing/craft room. That was a HUGE relief!! Now all I need to do is let it finish drying so I can take it back up stairs and put the cream hutch back on top. If ya wanna see the curtains you can go here.
Hope your week is going well! I have been super busy so I have not been blog hopping lately but promise to stop by soon!

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Feathered Nest Friday- French Country Cottage

Inspiration Friday- At The Picket Fence

Furniture Feature Friday- Miss Mustardseed

Transformation Thursday- The Shabby Chic Cottage

Metamorphosis Mondays- Between Naps oN The Porch

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