A Cottage Chair and Matching Striped Chests

Sorry about my being missing in action here lately. The hubs had a golf tournament last week and it has been forever since I got a chunk of time out in the garage. It sounds like a smart idea to have the kids use their scooters, chalk, etc out on the driveway while I work in the garage, but my 3 and 5 year old have zero ability to get along for more than 3 minutes...and three minute increments when painting furniture doesn't work.

So, aside from me having no "before" pictures of these, I think they turned out well. LOL!

These matching chests came to me painted white, but badly abused...think tape, crayon, marker and lots of dirt. I cleaned them up, sanded them down and taped off 4 inch stripes. Using dark gray for the stripes and Jacobean stain as glaze, they now look like this:





And here is a cute little chair I recently picked up. It was a cherry color with a vinyl seat. But now it looks like this:









I hope these make up for my absence...I've got some fun makeovers coming up, so stick with me!

~Allison

Side Table Deja Vu

Last fall, I participated in a Scotch Blue painting party. That post can be seen here TEXT, but here is the table that I ended up with:



Fast forward to last week, and I found this gorgeous, leggy table for a song. Shayne is in the process of opening another store in St. Paul (so exciting!!) and is always looking for more inventory, so she jumped on this table.



She decided we'd try black and white again! Here it is today...like deja vu!















I love the shape of this table and am very happy with how it turned out. The hubs and I are off to celebrate 10 years of marriage tonight! My parents took the kids for 24 hours (can you HEAR the excitement in my voice?!?) and we are enjoying every.quiet.minute.

~Allison

Dark Gray Side Table

Friends, the heat has fried my brain, so I have no creative titles for you. I'm also mid-meltdown with #3, so I'll make this a quick before and after.

Before:



After some DIY chalk paint and dark wax:



I love the detail~








Hope it's cooler where you are!

~Allison