MOD cabinet given a FRESH START with General Finishes

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Welcome back my Beauties!
Its time for this months Fab Furniture Flippin Contest.

This month’s contest is sponsored by General Finishes and the theme is Fresh Start. General Finishes Chalk Style Paint is a casual chalky interior matte paint available in 20 contemporary colors.

This month’s challenge was to take an old piece of furniture and give it a “Fresh Start” by using General Finishes new line of chalk paint.

 

This is the cabinet I started with. It was on old MOD record cabinet.

The doors had fallen off and were thrown out.

I loved the design of the piece just not the color.

I decided to use General Finishes Chalky Paint in

Charleton Blue for the outside.

On the inside I coated the whole thing with General finishes Milk Paint in Seagul Gray.

Then I took a Geometric Floor stencil and used my Charleton Blue Chalky Paint to
stencil the geometric form on the back of the cabinet.

After it was all dry I coated the whole thing with General Finishes  high performance flat Finish

I still can't believe what a difference a nice coat of paint made on this piece.
Its the perfect cabinet for the side of the bed or the end of the couch.

 I want to give a big Thank You to The Fab Flippin’ Furniture Contest and to our sponsor. This month’s theme was fantastic!  Want to see what the other participants have done with their projects & the colors they chose? Check out our Featured hosts – Evey of Evey’s Creations and Stacy of Anastasia Vintage.

If you’re a blogger and would like to participate in future contests, please feel free to email info@fabfurnitureflippincontest.com for further information.

Mens Mid Century Mod Dresser Makeover

Good Morning My Beauties!

I have a fun Makeover for you guys today.

I picked up this MCM dresser quite a few months ago and let it sit in my garage for

a while. This is as close as a BEFORE pictures as you are gonna get.

Once I started working on it I totally forgot to take pictures.

You can KIND of see in the picture above that the base was really beat up.

I am talking chipped veneer and lots of scratches. The drawers on the other hand were in pretty good shape.

I decided that the drawers could be saved where the rest of the base couldn't

 I sand the base to even out the veneer and scratches as best I could and 

then sanded the drawers down to the bare wood.

 I stained them with a nice deep provincial stain to really make the 

grain pop.

I finished them off with a spray poly.

For the base I mixed up a custom blue green.

I painted the whole thing in 2 thin coats.

I then waxed and buffed the whole thing.

While that was curing I took the original dirty old hardware and

gave it a couple coats with some gold spray paint. 

I loved the style of the hardware

but you couldn't really notice them with how dirty they were.

 

This is how the hardware looked once it was painted. 

I love the style of them and how well they go with the colors and

the curved drawers.

I love how it ended up turning out!

I almost ended up keeping this one too..:)

I hope you enjoyed it!

Until next time;

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL!

 

Handmade desk Turned MID CENTURY MOD

 

Well Hello again, my BEAUTIES!

I have been working up a storm here at the Art is Beauty home,

but not so much that I couldn't quick grab a couple pictures of my

latest furniture makeover.

I found this piece at my local Goodwill.

I know what you are thinking....BORING...or EW..

but you see the LEGS...those very simple legs are what caught my eye.

You see Mid Century Modern is SOOOO HUGE right now.

Everything I grew up around and honestly DESPISING 

is becoming once again sought after.

I will be honest I was not really pleased with this trend at first.

Like I said..having grown up in a home filled with this I dreamt of 

Frenchy, frilly, fun and delicate things.

But as I aged I came to appreciate lots of different styles.

Now I know why this stuff was so popular..

Its functional...stylish and fun in its own funky way.

This desk was handmade. There are measurements and scribbles all over the back and on the 

inside. Yet the painted brown and colonial hardware were not really doing anything for this piece.

 I honestly had NO IDEA where I wanted to go with this piece.

I had just done a different style Mod desk that you can see HERE

Thoughts of Navy and Gold did once again pop into my head.

I let that stew while I got to work on the top.

I used stripper on the top and I will tell you, what came of looked like the

inside of a babies diaper..It was actually quite disgusting looking.

It took 2 attempts at stripper just to get it down to this.

I honestly swear the universe has some sort of bet on how much work I will 

go through to strip off 40 odd years of paint.  :)

It was time for the belt sander.

I knew a palm sander wasn't gonna cut it if 2 layers of stripper barely touched it.

Plus I needed to sand out some pretty deep GRAFFITI that had worked its way into the top.

After burning through one belt and putting on a new one, I finally got it down to this.

A couple passes with some higher grit sand paper and a tack cloth and I could get to staining.

I chose a provincial stain and put that on the top.

Once it was finally dry I protected the top with a Satin Poly.

I spray painted the leg with a brushed nickel spray paint.

Here is where the color comes in. 

After researching lots of mod pieces one thing stood out.

YELLOW!

Now I don't very often paint things yellow.

But I knew this piece was calling for it.

I mixed up a custom yellow and put that down on the desk.

Then it was time to find hardware.

I wanted to find something that fit with the mod style.

That is hard to come by but I did find these fun diamond style knobs from 

Target.

  

I think you will agree that this desk now fits with the style.

I truly am starting to crush on the mod pieces more and more.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover!

I know I had fun doing it.

Until next time.

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Play room turned Art is Beauty Art Studio for under $200 REVEAL

Well my Beauties, its finally HERE!

The REVEAL of my finished Art Studio.

I know you have all been patiently waiting to see it

and now the time is finally here.

If you remember, this is the BEFORE.

It was suppose to be a quick project of ripping out carpet, 

painting and moving in and making it my studio,

but then we found water damage......

So you know what that meant....

DECONSTRUCTION...

and then CONSTRUCTION!

You can see all of the first post HERE

You can see from this picture that I had gotten through with the hydraulic cement

and moved on to dry locking. 

That was fun!  NOT!!

Also I had sprayed my trusses.

I wanted to have and industrial feel in the room but still wanted the

white ceiling. This really lightened up the room,

but it was an ALL day process. That old pine soaked up the paint like water in the desert.

You can see on the wall where if my sprayer got clogged I would work spray graffiti on the wall

to make sure it was started back up. 

(hey when you are doing mind numbing work you need some entertainment) :)
Plus all the walls were going to be painted the same white as the ceiling :)

Now it was time for the FUN part.

I had never ever...ever never...never ever...painted  faux brick before.

But I didn't let that stop me.

Did I youtube it.?..NOPE...

Did I look on Pinterest.?...NOPE..

I just grabbed a bunch of paints and started working the wall..

I first put down a almost dark purple color.

I wanted to make sure my brick had depth.

Since real old brick has tons of different colors in it

I knew I had to have LAYERS.

I roller'ed on my purple paint not being too careful.

I wanted to make sure some other colors would show through in the end.

I then went over that with a Dirty gray.

That gave even more depth to the color.

After that I mixed up a custom Brick color that I wanted.

Not to red and not too orange. 

I again used a sponge roller to put that on.

I used the sponge roller after a couple different things because if you didn't fill the roller it left 

little gaps and let the other colors show through, which exactly what I was going for.

After all the paint was dry I used a dark glaze to antique up the brick.

Concentrating on certain areas of the brick to make it look OLD.

At this point I was in LOVE.

But I had a vision from the very beginning.

This was one of those projects that I could see in my head before I even started.

I KNEW what I wanted this room to look like..

I just had no idea HOW I was going to do it.

My inspiration had been old new york apt.  Vintage brick with what are called "ghost signs" on the brick

Vintage advertising.

This was what my head had seen when it envisioned my studio.

thanks to my friend Shelly from Shizzle.

It was finally going to be a reality.

She gave me this overhead projector YEARS ago.

Like....that's how I met her...

I was saying how I NEEDED one..

she lived by me and said...I have one..you can have it.

and we have been friends ever since.

And oh yeah...the projector has sat in my basement since then..

Hubby really LOVED that. 

He wanted to get rid of it and I said..NO...I know I am going to need it..

and I DID....

I used a graphic from "the graphics fairy"

and projected it on my wall.

I grabbed my brushes and paint and started laying it down.

While the paint was drying on the ad.

I started putting down my flooring.

We had gone back and forth on whether or not I was going to paint the floor.

But we had to rip out the tack strips from the cement and it left gouges and holes where

they had been. 

I found these cheap vinyl wood floor strips that are self stick at menards.

So far the only MONEY I had spent on the room was the drylock.

I had everything else on hand. 

I ended up doing the entire floor for $80 

and it was so easy.

We had it done in a day.

So now its time...

Time for the final reveal...

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!!

TADA!!!!

Here she is..

In all her glory!!!

The paneling was painted...

the trim was up..

and I could move my stuff in.

All my furniture
was from Garage sales and Goodwill.
The Easel and Everything.
The Mid Century Mod Italian Chair. I got for 6 bucks.
I looked it up and they are Rare and sell for over $150
I am so glad I hung onto it until I could use it in my studio.

The kids old playroom shelves now held my art supplies.

I used Gold stencil cream to stencil on one of my fave quotes right on the wall as you walk

in and then just framed it with a gold frame.

I put my antique school desk in and started hanging some of my paintings on my

gallery wall.

and my desk is filled with all things that make me happy.

Even these vintage water color pencils.

My father in law found them for me.

I had them when we were kids.

They were my favorite pencils.

He found them NEW in the box.

Some old art teacher was selling her stuff and

he thought of me.

He is pretty sweet :)

I honestly LOVE my new art studio!

It is my favorite room in my house now.

I find myself just sitting in here even when I am just drinking coffee.

It is truly "where I want to be"

It turned out exactly how I had envisioned it in my head.

I can't believe I finally have my own creative space.

A place to call my own and my refuge when I need some Me time.

I look back at the old pictures and I can't even believe it was the same room.

So from a quick makeover 

to a full on construction that ended up costing me under $200

Dry lock    $35

Vinyl floor $80

Trim           $50

That's a lot of transformation for not so much money!

I couldn't be more thrilled.

I hope you enjoyed the reveal.

If you wold like to keep up with 

what I am up to IN the MOMENT 

(many who follow me on instagram got to see previews of this room)

You can follow me on many of the platforms.

Just click on the links and you can just click follow.

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I would LOVE to have you follow me.

Until next time,

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL

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