Fab Rehab Creations

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Sofa Table Before & After

This sofa table was brought to me a few weeks ago and the owner gave me a picture of a finish she wanted me to try. I couldn't take the picture from the email to post it here though.

Here is the before

I sanded it down and painted it a soft white. Then I used 2 different Cabot stains to achieve the bluish/grayish/greenish distressed color she was looking for. I dry brushed them on and then distressed. I sent pictures to my client and she said "why don't I come over and show you how to age/distress with a heat gun". I'd never heard of this, but it's pretty cool! This "client" is actually a friend and mentor, so it's weird for me to call her a client. Coolest.gal.ever!!

She came over and we sanded and made the paint "bubbly" with the heat gun. Then we took a scraper and scraped it off. I think I got the technique pretty well...I just wish I hadn't distressed so much before using the heat gun.

Here's how it turned out

Enjoy!

~Allison

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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Sad and Lonely No More

Sigh.

I really thought I took a before photo of this one. It was priceless. I got it for a buck at an estate sale. The wood was filthy and the fabric...well, it wasn't fabric. It was a dingy naugahyde. Yeah.

But it had such a good shape, and it's new owner had a great vision.

Here she is now!

~Allison

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Old World Looking Table

I found this table on Craigs List for FREE. Actually, she had three for free, but I could only fit 2 in my SUV because the kids were with me. So I took 2 and ran.

She was in rough shape, but I was in love with the wood inlays and wanted to salvage them if I could. This was after a lot of sanding on the top.

I worked hard to make the wood look great so I could stain it a dark walnut. And although I normally leave only the top dark when I do a two tone look, I wanted to salvage the drawer too...as it had the same pretty inlay. And here she is!