Homemade Chalk Paint ~Gray & Blue Buffet~

The weather has been incredibly beautiful here in BC.

I finished my buffet yesterday and was planning to take pictures of it today.

I woke up this moring and it was cloudy, making inside the house a bit dark....

so I dragged the buffet to the entrance and

opened the door to get a little bit of sun light :)

( That's why you see the door in the mirror)

Anyway, it started like this.

I thought about "paint or not to paint" for a while

because as you can see, it was quite nice, um, from far.

But up close, she showed her age and was too orange for me

and also I have another buffet which I decided not to paint

so I decided to paint this one.....(and that's my excuse to paint)

She's got the cutest hardwares ever!

I left them as is, just gave them a good cleaning, I think it goes well with the painted buffet.

I also painted white lines on the front.

All the furniture I paint I whip up my homemade chalk paint.

I've been making it for a while and I found out that if you add more unsanded grout to the paint and dilute it with more water,

the quality of the paint becomes more chalky, which I love :)

Love the voluptuous legs...

I added music sheets inside for a whimsical feel :)

Glued it with Mod Podge and sealed it with it as well.

I'm happy with the way she turned out :)

I'm currently working on a French chair, but the sewing machine needle broke yesterday and the machine is acting up, hope I can make it work and finish the chair soon.
Take care everyone:)

Yay!! This buffet was featured at

http://elizabethandco.blogspot.ca/2012/10/be-inspired-features-and-link-party-41.html

&

http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.ca/2012/10/make-it-pretty-monday-week-19.html

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My Rocking Chair is now really Rockin' :)

My husband bought this rocking chair for me when we were expecting our first baby.........
( and that was 1999 and we ended up having 3 kids)

Now the year is 2012 and our oldest is going to be an official teenager next month...

Oh boy.....lol

I reupholstered this chair once but we use it everyday so the seat & arm rest cover got ragged and was very ugly...
We were using the chair without the arm rest covers for a while.

Look at it!  ~~~Horror!!!~~~
The fabric for the back is the one I did, the seat is original....

I was kind of ashamed of myself everytime we had friends over.

( and they know I like to redo stuff!!!)

So finally I decided to do something about it.

First is of course, painting.

I used very light grey and added black glaze.

 Then moved on to do the cover.

( It took me forever to get this sewing stage though..)

Last time I re-covered it, I didn't use sturdy fabric so it didn't last (of course)

I'm sure anyone who likes to paint furniture and decorate
loves miss mustard seed and I am one of them.

I love what she does and I got this idea of using  drop cloths to upholster
 from her website ( which is full of gorgeous inspirations!!)

If you'd like to read her post on drop cloths, please visit here.

Drop cloths are affordable, sturdy and have this canvassy-look, I love it.

First I washed it to get rid of that musty smell and to avoid the later shrinkage.

I didn't use a pattern or anything, just went with the shape of the chair, pinned the fabric directly on the cushions and sewed.

For me, no fuss is VERY important:)

My cat Candy came to help me.....

Um...Candy? I need the arm rest underneath you? Hello? lol

Made the covers and it looked too simple so I made my own stencil.

Using regular acrylic paint in navy blue and

VOILA!!

Now I'm not ashamed of myself anymore:)

I'm happy with how my stencil truned out.

Now it's really happily rockin',don't you think??

I hope it'll last for....another 10 years!! lol

Have a wonderful, happy weekend everybody:)

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Scandinavian/French inspired Buffet

Hello, I'm so glad you stopped by :)

My husband found this buffet at a store and showed it to me saying

"Honey, I think you'll like this one!"

Oh yeah....love at first sight.

So she came home with us.

It's a lovely buffet with lots of storage, girly too :)

I feel so calm and happy when I paint...

First coat of my homemade chalk paint.

Now I really love this paint, I always mix in some unsanded grout to my latex paint.

....and here's the finished product!!!

What do you think?

Top drawer opens like this.

Wall paper inside.

Lovely legs :)

I looooooove crystal :)

I dry brushed the top for a weathered look.

Enough pictures already? lol
Anyway, I'm happy with the way she turned out :)
Please let me know if you like it...

My next project: Another buffet!!

Have a wonderful rest of the week everyone :)

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