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Friday, June 21, 2013

Red Red Wine {secretary redo}

This is one of the pieces I picked up during my daughter's softball tournament. Truth be told, I still get excited when I find a cute little antique and tend to overlook a lot of ~~crap~~ "blemishes". I loved the curvy drawer and the queen anne legs so I dismissed the cracked/peeling veneer and the inside (which literally had goo in it).

It was a lot more work than I had anticipated. I had such a hard time deciding what to do with this one, but I love how it turned out!

Before: this is after I had peeled the damaged veneer

After

I had this color tucked away in my "idea book". It's Red Red Wine by Behr. I absolutely love it! It's deep-not too bright, but not muddy at all. I actually decided on it because when I started scuff sanding for prep the stain was a very deep red and I knew it would be a nightmare for bleed through if I didn't sand it all the way to the bare wood (which I was NOT willing to do!). Painting it red alleviated that problem! :)

Gotta love those long legs!

I had these knobs in my stash (which is growing!) and I love how they add a little feminine touch.

Long legs AND curves...lucky girl!! I had to do 4 coats which makes distressing with a sanding block a little painful so I used my paint scraper instead. I actually prefer the "chippy" look anyway. :)

The inside was a disaster, so I took the whole thing apart, painted all the pieces separately, and then reassembled it.

Another one I want to keep.... lol

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Monday, June 10, 2013

{not an antique} Table Set

While I was at my daughter's softball tournament a friend of ours was at a furniture auction. He kept texting pics and calling to ask if I was interested in anything. Love friends like that! Of course, there were some things I just couldn't say no to, and this set of tables was one of them. They're brand new, but a little dinged up in spots which is why they were being auctioned.

The wood tone was such a pretty color that I decided to paint them black and do a really heavy rub through to show all of those pretty tones (and so they didn't look too formal).

Before

After

I'm hoping to finish the other two tomorrow, so here's a peek at the smallest one. :)

Sorry, this was pretty short and to the point, but I'm off to another softball game! :)

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Vanity in French Vanilla

Ok--here's another confession. I hate furniture picking. No, no, don't leave and don't adjust your screen. You read it right. I hate taking the time to look on CL, and I hate calling people to set something up that will work to come look, and I hate driving to pick up anything. (I live in a fairly small town and to find anything good requires at least a 45 minute drive.) Hmmm, I just sound lazy don't I? I just want to wake up and find fabulous pieces of furniture stacked in my garage. But, you can't paint if you don't pick, so picking it is.

This past weekend my daughter had her first softball tournament (she is adorable in her uniform) and we had a little time to kill between games, so I drug my sweet hubby to a consignment store 20 minutes away and made him go picking with me! :) I found this beautiful little vanity and the price was right, so into the truck it went.

Well, looks are sometimes deceiving! This cute little piece of furniture was the vanity from hell! First, I had to peel veneer that just refused to come off and it ended up taking 1/2 a day to fix that mess. And, I won't even tell you that I spent hours painting all the details in a contrasting color only to find out that I hated it when I was done and ended up painting over all of my hard work. Big fat ugh! Then it took alternating coats of shellac and paint to combat all the bleed through (sorry gals, but primer doesn't always work). Another big fat ugh! Then a man came into my garage and tried to move it while it was wet and left fingerprints in it. By this time I just wanted to burn it in my fire pit.

Then I went to stage it and the pot I put on it left a water ring that I had to fix. Seriously?! Somebody better come buy this thing before I hack it into pieces! I actually fixed the water stain with a little Danish Oil in Dark Walnut. Worked like a charm!

So, without anymore ~~bitc...~~ complaining here it is!

Before

I have yet to pass one of these up!! Check out the extra set of legs! ;)

After

She did turn out to be very pretty, even after all of that.

This top is so unbelievably beautiful, which is why I was mortified when I discovered the offending spot!

She has such pretty details all over....better to just distress them a little and let them speak for themselves.

I was lucky enough to find this cute little chair at the same consignment shop as the vanity. Score! Ania picked out the fabric. That girl has good taste already! :)