Showing posts with label Furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Furniture. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

It's the best grey ever...

City Storm by Valspar
I just finished painting two bedside tables for our master bedroom.
They still need a coat of poly, but I had to show you this color.
 Now I just need to find some drawer pulls and finish the lamps I started to go on top of the tables.  
I'm in the middle of decorating our room, so until It's finished, these pictures will have to do.




This grey will definitely find itself in a few more places in my house!
 LOVE IT!

--plus--

Here's a sneak peek of the bedding I bought this week!
It's being delivered tomorrow! eeeek!!! :)

Monday, February 14, 2011

Yellow..

I traded Melanie some of my furniture stash for this beauty.
 I'd guess it was made sometime in the mid 70's.
 Long before I was born!

Primed it (sorry, no picture of that step) with Kilz spray primer.
Then gave it 3 coats of Krylon" Bauhaus Gold" spray paint.

 I used Ralph Lauren "smoke" glaze. I applied it pretty heavily and then wiped it off to my liking. 
Finished it off with two coats of Minwax semi-gloss polycrylic. Good stuff. Adds a really hard, strong top coat and doesn't turn brown/yellow like polyurethane does.
It sits underneath our TV and stores some of the kids toys. 
Still haven't found the perfect knobs yet, which I'm really in no hurry to do since the kids toys are now trapped inside. :) My oldest two have figured out how to pry it open, but it still keeps number 3 & 4 out!
What do ya think of the color? Too crazy? Too bold? 
Nah, it's gonna look good with the paint I've picked out for the walls 
and the fabric I bought for the curtains. 



Saturday, February 12, 2011

before and after

 An old dresser I painted for an old friend last summer.
before...

after.....       the picture quality is horrible. I am not a photographer

One of my favorites so far. 

Jet black paint (can't remember the brand)
Sanded the edges
4 coats of stain/poly in one
Would have kept it if I thought I could have gotten away with it!