Coastal Blue Vintage Waterfall Dresser Makeover

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Welcome back my Beauties!

I didn't think I would be back so quick but the cold weather has me not wanting to leave the house, so I figured I would work some old pieces I did.

Its funny because not only did it take me a long to time to write this post, it took me a long time to work on this dresser.

I am pretty sure it sat in my garage for at least a year.

I bought it at a thrift store because I loved the veneer.

Its that paper thin stuff so I knew I couldn't touch it with sandpaper or it would disappear so I had to work out how I was going to still show it off.

The top was pretty gouged up and heavily stained so I knew I had to paint it. 

I lightly sanded the parts I was going to paint and wiped them all down real well and went to my paints to decide on a color.

I decided to go with General Finishes Coastal Blue Milk Paint because I loved how it played with the wood tone that I would be keeping.

Here you can see how it looked with just one coat on. I had decided to just really clean up the top drawer that had the most interesting grain and use paint on the rest to showcase that part. 

It had the original hardware which I just clean up and put back on.

And here it is in its Coastal Blue Beauty! 

I loved how the original hardware played off the dark blue and the wood tone of the top drawer.

(I also want to know how much I miss seeing GREEN GRASS;

I was for sure not made for winter) :)

This was a hard piece to bring into the booth because I wanted to keep it, but really had no place for it.

But happy to say its enjoying its new life in someone else's home.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover and hopefully I will get a chance to write up some new posts while I wait out the winter.

Until next time,

Have a Beautiful Day! 

Restoring 2 Vintage Paul Mccobb Open Arm Chairs

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Welcome back my Beauties!
Bet you didn't expect to see me back so soon did ya?

Well, I have to say I have been on a roll working on some old pieces I have had in the garage and I figure I better not wait as long to post about them as I did to finish the pieces :) 

This is the story of more furniture that has been sitting in my garage for a few years.

Last time I showed you this dresser that had been sitting in my garage for over 2 years. You can see that makeover HERE.

Well, those 2 chairs you see, they have been sitting just as long.

I don't know what inspired me to get my rear in gear, but I think I honestly just got tired of looking at them.

Plus I was overwhelmed by the work both projects were gonna take.

I am not one to shy away from hard work, but I have to be in the right head space to do it.

So around the same time I started working on the dresser I decided to tackle the chairs.

I think part of the reason I was nervous was that they were very very cool chairs by a very famous designer Paul Mccobb.

Unfortunately, I found these chairs on the side of the road.

They had been left in the rain. 

I was so ticked because the finish I am sure would have been fine had they not been left in the rain. 

You can see what the rain had done to the finish in the above picture.

So after 2 years of looking at them stacked in my garage I finally decided it was time.

I grabbed my Ryobi cordless sander and got to work.

You can see here the sander made quick work, since the finish was almost non existent.

Here is the part where I went a little crazy.

I know Paul Mccobb is suppose to be dark walnut stained and then finished, but I wasn't feeling it and since he liked to make modern things, I decided to modern them up too. :) 

I wanted their natural grain to show and only slightly darken it.

So I hand rubbed on a couple coats of Minwax Wipe on Poly

to just finish the natural beauty.

For the seats I just used some black and white striped fabric that I had picked up at goodwill for an astoundingly cheap 3.99 a bolt.

And there you have it.

Can you even believe the difference?

After all these years, I can't believe they are done.

I love how the striped fabric works with the modern lines of the chair.

Now I have to hurry and take them to my booth before I decide to find a place in my house.

(believe me I have already walked around with them and tried to make them work :) )

I hope you enjoyed this makeover!

I have another awesome piece that I saved from a friends garage 

that I am working on as I type.

Hopefully I am on a roll and will get that posted next week.

Fingers Crossed!
Until next time have a Beautiful Day! 

Vintage Farmhouse style Dresser Makeover

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Welcome back my Beauties!

Can you even believe it? I have another makeover for you! 

I have been blasting through projects this last week as we get ready to head west for a few weeks for our annual hiking trip.

Today I am going to show you how I easily made over this vintage little dresser.

I picked it up at a garage sale for $15

I know it looks like it isn't in that bad of shape, but the bottom two drawers were missing there bottoms, and the piece had been stripped at one point but they gave up on certain parts and then did an  antiquing  treatment over it.

So we used some LAUAN wood we had in the garage and made new drawer bottoms.

For the fronts I just cleaned them up and set them aside.

For the base I picked General Finishes Basil Milk Paint

to keep that vintage feel

I used it on my other small dresser makeover and just loved it. You can see that makeover HERE --> Vintage chest of drawers makeover

So after prepping the base by sanding and wiping down,

I gave it two coats and let it dry.

Once it was dry, I put the drawers back in and used my 

Deco art Winterberry Wreath Stencil and placed it where I wanted it.

I used my General Finishes Milk Paint in Alabaster because I loved how the white played off the wood finish.

I also added these simple white knobs to play off the wreath.

I just loved how it came together and it was so simple.

What was once sitting at a garage sale waiting to be loved again,

is now ready for it's new home.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover!

If you want to follow along with our trip out West,

be sure to follow along on my Insta Stories HERE

or my FB stories HERE!

Until next time,

Have a BEAUTIFUL day! 

MODERN FARMHOUSE DRESSER MAKEOVER

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Welcome back my Beauties!
I hadn't planned on doing a post today,

but I am in PROJECT mode before we leave for Spring Break and I had to bring some furniture into the booth, so I figured I would share one of the projects I had just finishes.

I picked up this dresser at the thrift shop for a steal.

I knew it was beat up, but it was SOLID and a BEAST 

so I knew it just needed a little TLC to bring it back to a functioning piece of furniture.

Lucky for me the base was the most beat up.

The drawers were actually pretty good and just needed to be cleaned up to bring back their pretty grain.

Here you can see them all cleaned up.

Since this thing was so solid I wanted to save what wood finish I could.

The rest of the piece was so hacked up I knew that it would have to be sanded down.

So I grabbed my favorite little tool, my Ryobi Cordless Sander and got to work.

I tested a few colors next to the drawers before I started sanding and I went from there.

For the base I picked one of General Finishes new colors "Alabaster"

I don't tend to paint things white. I love color!
But this was like the perfect creamy white that played off perfectly with the hardware and the drawers.

You can see here just after one coat, how much it changed the look of the base. 

No longer beat up, it looked fresh and clean!

Here you can see it playing off the wood and the brass hardware.

It was perfect.

Since this is Michigan, I had to photograph the piece at my booth!

At least I didn't have to freeze my fingers off to photograph it.

So there you have it!  One of about the million projects I have been working on.

I hope you are enjoying some warm and spring like weather.

We have to leave the state to get that, so we will be traveling a thousand miles to see the sun and warm!

If you want to follow along,

join me over on Instagram !

Just click HERE! to keep up with the behind the scenes!

Until next time,

Stay warm!