Roadside Rescue Vintage Bicycle Advertisement Dresser

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Welcome back my Beauties.

I hope your week has been treating you well so far.

I am working on makeovers and even redoing a dresser for my husband now that the kids are back to their school schedules.

But this dresser I did this summer.

One day my husband was out walking the dog and saw the neighbors had thrown out this dresser. 

I must admit, I have saved many pieces but I was a little nervous about this one.

It was pretty beat up and I almost thought about just not doing it.

But I decided there was no harm in trying to bring this baby back to life.

First things first was I stripped off those nasty stickers stuck to the front of the drawers.

Once I started cleaning off the stickers I realized that with a good scrubbing and sanding the original wood grain was starting to show through. It was almost as if they had used too dark a stain and it just needed a lightening up.

At that point my motivation was in full gear.

I decided to use my General Finishes Driftwood gray for the base of the piece. 

The sides of the dresser were beyond trying to sand down and I figured the paint would help the drawer fronts POP

Plus I had decided to go FULL VINTAGE on this dresser, with my Vintage Columbias Bicycles advertisement Stencil and figured that would pair nicely.

I used my General Finishes Snow White Milk Paint for the stencil.

After it was all dried I gave it even more light distressing and put the old hardware back on. 

I LOVED how it turned out!

I had surprised myself that I was able to save it and that 

I actually thought it looked good. :)

With the old original wood and vintage advertisement I just felt like it was a match made in heaven.

Plus I am happy to say that someone else did too.

It SOLD and I am so happy to have saved a piece from being crushed and dumped in a landfill.

I think I will try to remember that the next time I see a piece sitting on the side of the road and I start to doubt that it can be saved. 

I don't know why I doubt myself?

I mean you can see HERE all the free pieces I have rescued!

You would think I would be used to saving them by now.

I have yet to chuck one in the fire pit, so here's hoping that I can keep up with saving all those stragglers that the husband brings home with the proud little smile on his face. :)

Well, I am off to try to work in the garage if the mosquitoes don't carry me away.

Wish me luck!
Until next time,

Have a BEAUTIFUL day! 

Roadside Rescue Eclectic Emerald Green Dresser Makeover

Welcome back my Beauties.

I have been waiting to show you this Roadside Rescued Eclectic Emerald Green Dresser for a while

and I am so happy to finally being able to get around to editing and posting it.

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It may look a bit familiar to you if you have been following me for a while. 
You can see the partner to the piece I did HERE
Both pieces were rescued at that same time and took almost the same amount of work to bring them back to functioning pieces of furniture.

One of the first things that needed to be done with both pieces was to remove all the damaged veneer off of them.
This required a few days, some slivers and major tenacity.
As with the first piece the veneer did NOT want to come off.
Every method was tried again. You know....the Wet Towel to release the veneer. The heat gun to also try to release the glue holding the veneer. None of those worked. 
The only thing that did was to use a good ole paint scraper
I worked for hours to get every little bit I could off.
Once the veneer was removed I used my Belt Sander to get it to a nice smooth finish and remove all the little bits of veneer that were being stubborn :)

I mean, look at that wood underneath. 
I sometimes wonder why they laid the thin piece of wood over the solid slats of wood underneath. 
For the top I finished it off with the same finish as the previous piece.

But for the base I wanted a little more POP!
SO I chose General Finishes Emerald Green Milk Paint.
I gave the base 2 coats and cleaned up the original hardware and put those back on.

I think you will agree that the green made it really POP!

I actually tried to figure out a way to keep it for my own house, but as you know I can't keep everything.

So it went to my booth and it is now in someone else's home getting a second lease on life.

I think besides the green happy paint, the thought of keeping another piece out of the landfill makes me even happier.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover.

I am going to be a busy little bee

working on some more pieces

so be sure to check back to see what else I am working on.

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So until next time,

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Emerald Green Rescued Dresser Before and After

Welcome back my Beauties!

I have a bright and beautiful makeover for you today!

A couple weeks ago my husband was out taking the dog for a walk and saw our neighbor had this dresser out for the trash. He quickly walked home and asked me if I wanted it.

I gave him the "LOOK" that conveyed "of COURSE I do!" and "HURRY UP BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE GRABS IT!" 

(normally I would have run out with him, but I had literally just stepped out of the shower)

The next thing you know I see him walking back up the road pushing this on my dolly...He didn't even mess around with the truck...he figured he took the dog for a walk, he might as well take the dresser for a walk! :)

It was in ok condition. It was a mix of particle board covered in "WOOD" looking stickers and solid wood.

The top was in almost perfect condition just needed to be cleaned up.

But the base...that needed some LOVIN!

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I wanted this dresser to POP and show off a little after being left by the curb, so I chose

General Finishes Emerald Green.

Here you can see it after just one coat!

It was starting to transform before my very eyes.

Since the hardware was still in great shape, all I did was clean those up and spray them with some shiny gold paint.

Once it was all dry, she was ready for the BALL!

While I am always happy to score free furniture, 

sometimes I wish the people who got rid of them could see how a little bit of love transformed them.

(but I still want the free furniture 😊)

This will be another dresser that is hard to part with,

but I am happy knowing that I saved another piece from the landfill.

I hope I inspired you to try out some color in your life and see how much it can transform a piece!

Until next time,

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Funky Farmhouse Rescued Table and Chairs Painted Makeover!

Welcome back my Beauties! 

Sorry to be away so long but Summer is one of those times we 

suck the life out of. 

We enjoyed our hiking trip to Utah and have taken a few days to 

get back into our regular schedule.

I am still in the process of going through all of my projects from last year when we lost my Mom.

This was one of those big projects that I did and quick photographed and brought to my booth and never had a chance to post. 

You can see from the above picture it was pretty beat up.

I picked this up free on the side of the road.

Structurally it was in great shape but the finish was destroyed.

I decided to give it a face lift with some funky and fun paint colors for a Funky Farmhouse feel.

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I knew I wanted to go with a two tone just to play off the chairs from the table base.

For the top I used two different grays and wet blended them.

I believe I used General Finishes Seagull Gray

and Driftwood

Working the two colors together while wet to give a slight layered finish. 

I used General Finishes custom color creator to mix up

Coastal Blue

and 

Persian Blue

I think you will agree it transformed this beat up old roadside rescue high top table and chair set into a funky and fun Farmhouse Style set!

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It's hard to believe it was the same set!

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover and I hope you are all having a BEAUTIFUL summer!

Until next time,

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Simple Stencilled Side table MAKEOVER

Welcome back my Beauties! 

Sorry I have been so absent lately.

A year ago my Mom got sick and we lost her a few months later.

I basically have been kind of floating through the last few months trying to re navigate my life without her.

I feel like I am living in an alternate world sometimes.

Our lives have gone back to somewhat normal routine, yet something is always missing. 

What makes it hard is that I also have so many makeovers that I was working on when she got sick, so to sit down and start going through these projects is a little difficult.

It brings me back to when we were dealing with so much yet still trying to get my work done to sell at my booth.

I have to say seeing these projects is getting a little easier and I am finally ready to start showing what I was working on back then. 

Mostly because my momma LOVED a good project.

The worse it was in the beginning the better.

This is one of those projects.

My father in law had picked this old sad table up out of someones trash. He wasn't sure I could do anything with it, but once he saw my face when he gave it to me, he knew it was a mistake to doubt me. :)

The veneer was in awful shape but I knew from experience it just needed a little elbow grease and that stuff would be gone in moments.

I started by prying off the loose veneer and then using the soaking method to loosen what was left.

Once I got it all scraped off I could move on to making her pretty.

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I grabbed my 

ROCKWELL ORBITAL SANDER

and gave the top a good smooth sanding

Then I grabbed some 

DARK WALNUT STAIN

and stained the top.

While the top was drying I painted the whole base of the table with

AMERICANA CHALKY FINISH IN REFRESHING

paint.

Then for the fun part. I grabbed my 

PAISLEY STENCIL and using the same mint paint from the base I stencilled the top of the table.

I was in love with the dark and light contrast.

I spray sealed the whole piece when it was dry.

I love how the stencil on top of the dark wood brought the whole piece together.

I still can't believe this was the same table that someone had thrown in the trash.

But as usual, those are always my favorite makeovers! 

I still can't believe the difference.

I also find it funny that I have never seen another table like this before.

I have seen a lot of furniture in my day, but none like this.

If you have any idea what it was called I would love to know!

In the next few weeks I will be show a few more makeovers from last summer.

It takes me a little longer to go through the pictures to edit, but hopefully I am still making my momma proud.

Until next time,

Have a BEAUTIFUL day.

Roadside Rescue Free Russell Woodard MCM Patio Chair set Spray Painted Makeover

(hitting replay of one of my favorite makeovers that I kept) 

Hello again my Beauties!
(UPDATE...thanks to an awesome reader I found out these are Highly collectible
 Mid-Century Modern SPUN Fiberglass Russell Woodard Chairs....I am so glad I kept them) 

I have been meaning to show you this makeover for over a month now.

I was going through some pictures on my computer and realized I never showed you

this makeover.

 One night over a month ago on a walk we came across three of these chairs for free on the side of the road.

Well...as a SUCKER for FREE furniture you know I picked them up.

The one above went to my booth but the other 2 were going to be mine.

They just needed a little WORK.

 

 Here is a close up of the wicker and cushions before...

They were kinda....well...YUCK.

The cushions were dirty and out dated and the wicker had lost parts of its old paint job,

but the chairs themselves were oh so COMFY and I love the cool style!

 

I quickly gave the chairs a couple coats of Black Spray Paint and got to

work on the chairs.

 Now I tried to be FANCY with the cushions and use this fancy dancy special spray paint...

Well, as you can tell..NO, it didn't work.

The plastic mesh type material was no match for the expensive fabric spray paint.

So I went with my favorite standby!

I grabbed a couple cans of my favorite Rustoleum spray paint and gave the cushions 2 coats.

It worked perfectly.

I mean..why had I gone through all that trouble before I tried good old spray paint?

 The nice part about forgetting to post is that I can tell you..

the spray paint has held up FABULOUSLY. 

No flaking..No Peeling...They look as good as they did the first day.

I love them and we have been putting them to good use while

we FINALLY enjoy some nice weather here in Michigan!
Until next time;

go make someones day BEAUTIFUL!