Showing posts with label white. Show all posts
Showing posts with label white. Show all posts
Monday, February 24, 2014
MY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING grey and white buffet
This wife was refinishing a buffet on thanksgiving
while her husband was preparing to serve a turkey buffet.
This pieces was up for auction recently and we eventually got it at a reasonable price.
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| Before |
This is one of those pieces that makes me long for more space, a more traditional home,
or even a double wide trailer.
I think you all know what would happen if I had more space ...
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| Sprayed in a soft grey |
I would use it in my shabby chic livingroom for the TV console.
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| After |
I mixed this color using old white, provence, and graphite, all chalk paint colors.
Its a very soft grey and exactly what I wanted.
The hardware was all removed and painted with a flat bright white paint.
I also hand painted the all the trim details.
I sat quietly painting the white trim and occasionally I would feel the warm sun on my back as the sun played hide and seek with the clouds thru the day.
When he had the time George would come sit with me
and enjoy a few moments of the day and before he would have to run back to the kitchen,
he would always lean in and steal a kiss.
The entire piece was finished with wax and buffed to shine.
With some gentle distressing in the right places and the white against the soft grey,
the whole piece just looks amazing.
the whole piece just looks amazing.
I HOPE EVERYONE HAD A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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Sunday, February 23, 2014
THE JELLY IN THE DONUT white vanity with stool and mirror
There is truely a surprise hiding inside this one
and this time its not simple drawer liners.
First lets remove the old hardware.
and add some new ribbon shaped pulls, 3 floral appliques and a vintage mirror.
I rescued this mirror after it had been left out in the rain and had started coming apart
at the joints. She had to be acclimatizing to room temperature after carefully re-assembling, gluing, and clamping, but shes a beautiful portrait again every time you gaze into her.
Okay lets get to the jelly, the hidden gem, the icing in the Oreo .....
The stool is inside! How cool is that?
and its on casters so it rolls in and out.
The secret is out at:
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