MakeMePrettyAgain: May 2013

Sunday, May 26, 2013

MCM Desk

Still on the mid-century craze, I picked up this desk set with a matching

chest of drawers (which I did in different colors).

Not really a whole lot to it! It is solid wood and the drawers are made of cedar.

I must have looked at this for a month before I decided what to do with it.

Here's what the matching chest looks like. An aqua ombre.

Just a couple of "smalls" I made for my space.

reclaimed wood from my vintage fruit crates. Love the termite damage!

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Kent Coffey find!

I scored this mid century nugget when a friend of mine was browsing through

The Salvation Army. She sent me a pic showing the name on the inside of the

drawer. I couldn't call her back fast enough telling her to "GRAB IT!!"

Who donates a Kent Coffey???!!! Thank you whomever!
Look at the cute little acorn hardware, which polished up quite nicely!! Use a fine steel wool and a good polish.

I gave the top a coat of aqua chalk paint with a celery green accent in the quatrefoil pattern.
I also kept the factory black paint by lightly sanding and then giving it a few coats of my
homemade black chalk paint. (I used 'Gliddens' in Onyx).

Ended up making my own stencil. I printed it out on contact paper and used an exacto knife.
Not exactly a 10 on my fun-O-meter, but I managed to finish it!

Solid mahogany drawers in pristine condition! Just a little tung oil to liven them up.

Reclaimed Wood "Herringbone" Ceiling room finally has furniture!!

So those of you who recall the reclaimed wood herringbone

ceiling project (HERE)

that we did a few months ago, FINALLY can see the whole room with my

reupholstered furniture!

Only took 7 weeks to get my stuff back!!

I seriously need to get a pro-photographer. The pictures look so flat!

But this will have to do for now.

I'm not keeping the white chair in the corner. I will look for something different.

But the Ikat fabric chair is one of my re-dos!!

Vintage Pieces in varying colors!

I scored about 4 vintage dressers from the '60's.

All solid wood and in pretty good shape. I tried some different colors

this time and this is what I ended up with~ (Pardon my garage staging!! I am out of room!!!)

This guy is made from solid Elm! Have never seen elm before. So I sanded off the old stain and

found this gorgeous solid wood top! I think I put a light shade of walnut on it and used tung oil

to finish it off. Did a custom mix of my own chalk paint in different shades of blues.....Something different!

Found some mother of pearl knobs from HL and used those on the left drawers.

Next one is a MCM dresser. Same thing. Sanded off the ick, redid the walnut fronts and top.

This one I used an oil base glossy white paint. About 4 coats! It's hard as nails when it dries!! Gave it some racing stripes for something different.