Be Bold!!!

Ever wonder what to do with all your left over paint colors?  Well I got your solution use them all on your rustic farmhouse dresser.  It re-mindes me of quote "never fear being vulgar just boring"  This dresser is defiantly not boring.  

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a new life

This is another piece from my marathon painting day. This little end table needed a new life it was rescued right out of the Brady Bunch house.    As you may see I started painting it yellow and then dry brushed it in white then antiqued it for it final look of shabby elegance.

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feast or famine

When it rains it pours  Im sure there are more I just can't think of right now anyway usually when I paint furniture I put it in my booths and it sits there for at least 3 months before it sells.  We are right in the middle of moving so my life is upside down and in a box and that is the same time that everyone has decided to go a furniture buying spree.  On top of my crazy hectic life I have been hunting and painting furniture like crazy to fill my empty spaces.  In one day I painted two dressers and an end table, phew and I'm tired.  Here is the first of the three, its not crazy or dramatic but I think it still a change for the better. 

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note my work space is being invaded by boxes

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$3 salvation army table

Yes I said $3 it was sitting out front begging to be rescued  and of course I forgot to take a before picture. ): So you'll have to trust me when I say it was UGLY brown, faded, scratched wood and the glass in the center was missing.  With a little help from my favorite color of the month voyage by behr and a new piece of glass only $4- its a whole new table!  Second hand store-never again.  I added a little extra touch and made a collage out of paris postcards to go under the glass.

Paris Table

Redo

Antique Eclectic

I have been eyeing this lovely end table at the local antique store and the price was right so I finally bought it.  The detail and lines are elegant and with a little lipstick and some eye shadow she's pretty and ready for anything.

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Farmhouse Hutch

I found, bought and painted this hutch in 3 days, why you ask? Is she crazy you wonder? Well... a little bit!

   I sold a hutch at a local store so I wanted to put in a replacement before the other one left the store.  It was not much to look at when I first bought it but it was solid and had a good base.  The one thing I did hate about it was the rose pattern on the glass window ( so very 80's)  If anyone out there has any solutions on how to hide unwanted glass etchings let me know.  Painting it with glass paint didn't work, spray frost didn't work so I just left it.  
     I painted the entire hutch white and then used my crackle glaze, let that dry for and hour.  I painted over the hutch with an antique tin color by Behr, sanded then I went over it once again with antiquing glaze.  The inside back of the hutch is voyage by Behr then I added amber lights and Done!!!

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