MakeMePrettyAgain

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Going back to BOLD!

You know how I love this milk paint! I scored this great buffet and figured it would look beautiful dressed up in the beautiful ultra-marine color milk paint.I absolutely love the ultra blue and the turquoise color. They are stunning on old wood.

I layered a little of the turquoise just to give it some extra color. I love these two shades together.I use the jar to mix it well and then pour it into the container to paint. I love this paint from the Real Milk Paint Co. The colors are gorge!!

Before the magic of tung oil.

Voila!

Retro, Baby!!!

I'm so excited to share my new piece! Now I know not everyone is into

the Mad Men style, but these vintage pieces are just so darn fun to do!

I got a phone call from one of my "contacts" asking if I wanted this stuff. She cleared out

a container and this mid century dining set was part of it.

Behold the $65 "set".....

These chairs were sooooo gross. Greasy??? OMG. Smelly??? OMG. I gloved up on these babies.

So much grease and grime. I don't even want to know. But I saw potential!!

I know. Ewwww. Right??

Ok. Ready???

Many, many,,,,,many (lol) hours later.....

I discovered that beneath all the grime, they were actually in very good shape.

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.