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! 

Discarded Side table given a Stencilled Makeover

Welcome back my Beauties!

We have a had a bit of a warm up so I have been busting my buns

to get some things ready for the booth.

I have had this poor discarded side table in my garage for a few months waiting for its makeover.

I knew it was gonna need some major sanding so I waited until I could be outside to get that done.

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So as soon as it warmed up a bit, I pulled out the 

Belt Sander and got to work.

I am not gonna lie..It took some major elbow grease along with that big ole belt sander to get through all the grease stains,

but I prevailed!!!

Once I used my finish sander to smooth out the top, I grabbed some dark stain I had in my garage and gave the top a quick stain.

I then cleaned up the rest of the base knowing I would be painting that.

As usual our temps dropped again and I had to bring my little project inside.

I decided this top needed to POP since it had been through such hardships. So I grabbed my 

Americana Decor Fleur Medallion Stencil

Placed it where I wanted it and got to work.

Since I wanted it to POP, I decided to go with

General Finishes paint in SNOW WHITE

for the stencil.

It played off really nicely with the dark stain.

I slightly distressed it when it was dry to match the light distressing of the table.

For the base color I chose 

General Finishes Milk Paint Persian Blue

and

General Finishes Gel Topcoat 

to seal it off. 

I couldn't be more THRILLED with how the tired and beat up old table turned out.

The light distressing against the wood and the white paint

just made my heart go pitter patter.

I think you will agree that it looks much better than before.

I am so happy to be plugging away on furniture again.

Now if this nice weather would stick around I could be much more productive.

Sadly we have a wicked snow storm headed this way as I type.

C'est LaVie!

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover!

I will see you again once I defrost!

Until then;

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Outdated 80s Golden Oak Half Table Updated with Deco Art Vintage Effects Wash Paint

Welcome Back my Beauties.

We are in the final days before all the kiddos go back to school  ( and the hubby back to teaching high school and college) and I am in the push to start knocking out more projects before Soccer season starts. 

One of the projects I finished was this Outdated 80s Golden Oak Half Table Updated with Deco Art Vintage Effects Wash Paint.

You can see here in the before it was feeling tired in is 80s golden oak finish that was starting to wear through on the top.

I decided that since it was in great shape structurally that it just needed a little bit of paint to give it a new lease on life. 

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I started with Deco Arts new Vintage effect wash in Black.
You can see the quick little Facebook video I made HERE 

showing how easy it is to use!

I used a sponge brush to put on a thin coat over the old oak finish. (I had just lightly sanded the top to prep it for the paint) 

It went on really easy and I loved how it was so quick to update the oak to the rich dark color, all while letting a little of the grain show through.

While the top was drying I decided to use Americana Decor's chalky finish paint in Vintage for the base. 

Here you can see it drying after the top and the base were painted.

Once the top was dry I decided to use Americana Decors 

Winterberry Wreath Stencil, Centering half way off to help accentuate the half round shape of the top.

In order to protect the whole finish of the piece I used 

Deco Art's Americana Sealer in Gloss

I love how it added an even deeper finish to the vintage wash paint on the top. 

I also love how using half the stencil made the top stand out more.

I can not wait to try the new wash paints on some other projects.

I already have a couple ideas spinning in my head after cleaning out my stash of furniture this weekend.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover and that you all have a Beautiful week! 

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.