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Saturday, January 17, 2015

PAINTING A DISTRESSED STAINED FINISH ON LINDA'S BREAKFAST ROOM TABLE & CHAIRS

Linda has the prettiest house!
Last year, I painted her kitchen cabinets.  A few weeks ago, she asked me to paint her breakfast room table and chairs.  She wanted the chairs to be blue with a stain over the blue.  She told me the finish she wanted, so I made her a sample of what I thought she wanted.  I made the sample on poster board and a small piece of it was torn.  When Linda saw how the paint and stain looked on that torn part of the paper, she said "this is what I want".
So, this is how the chairs turned out.


There is a brown under coat.  I painted the blue on top of that and wiped and rubbed off with a rag.  When that dried, I wiped on and wiped off a stain.



Isn't that a cool look!!
It was a great idea to make them look like the torn sample board.


Speaking of the "element of surprise".
When I opened the door to her dark bathroom and turned on the light, this picture of her precious Ollie was right in front of me.  Right by the comode.  
So cute!!  and, he's the best little rescue dog.


The table base was beige and she asked me to paint it a black distressed finish.
Hope you can see that I rubbed the black off of those curved areas so the brown would show through the black.


Her table top was scratched  in several areas.  I was able to lightly sand and stain those areas and then seal the top really well with two coats of clear sealer.  
It looks brand new, again.
I love the look of the blue/brown chairs, the black table base and stained table top together.  And, those colors go so well with all of her beautiful decor.


This is how everything looked "before".
I love how the sun comes in that window.

This is a link to 
that I painted last year.

The new breakfast room colors look wonderful with the kitchen cabinet colors.
Thank you, Linda!

Thursday, January 15, 2015

PAINTING ON FABRIC FOR CHAIR CUSHIONS & CATCHING UP TO SAY "HI THERE"

PAINTING ON FABRIC FOR CHAIR CUSHIONS & CATCHING UP TO SAY "HI THERE"

Last week I was working in a lovely home, painting her breakfast room table and chairs.  Last year I got to paint her kitchen cabinets.  I'll share that with you in the next day or two. 
The week before that, I painted a 14' high dining room ceiling my "antique copper" special finish.  The pictures just don't do it justice.  That "antique copper" fits her home beautifully.  I'll share it with you, soon.
Right now I'm painting  several areas of black distressed cabinets in a home and I'm almost finished.  I'll share that with you, too. 
I'm way backed up on sharing with you.  I love showing you what clients are asking me to do in their homes, because I hope to inspire and encourage you in decorating your homes.
Also, a client ordered some chairs for her dining room and the chair cushions are white.  She wanted more color and showed me a pattern sample of the colors she would love to have on those chairs.  So, I traced the pattern on duck cloth and this is how far I've gotten with the painting. 
 Today, I have to show this to her for approval.  My main concern is, the chairs haven't come in yet and I don't know what kind of fabric is on those chair cushions.  So, it might be a challenge painting on that fabric.  We'll see!
Off to work, now.  Just wanted to say "hi there" :)

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

PAINTING ARTWORK ON RUSTY OLD CORRUGATED ROOF TINS FOR RUTH

PAINTING ARTWORK ON RUSTY OLD CORRUGATED ROOF TINS FOR RUTH

  Ruth asked me to paint artwork on two old rusty corrugated roofing tins.


Here is the link to my post and more pictures of the artwork on the rusty old roofing tins.