April's kitchen cabinet

A friend of mine, April, recently moved and bought a cabinet for her kitchen online. Upon receiving it, she quickly realized it was much too bright. Sour apple bright! But it was a very cute piece. Of course I was half way through priming when I realized that I needed to take a "before" picture...



April asked me to repaint it for her and she chose a creamy white. After painting I distressed it, some by hand and some with my palm sander and added a light coat of stain to give it a nice aged, worn look. She has accents of pistachio green in her kitchen, so I like the way some of the green peeks through the distressing and hope it will compliment her kitchen well.

french coffee table

I picked up this coffee table for free a few weeks ago. At first, I could not believe it was free, but quickly discovered that the previous owners must have had a puppy...that loved to chew! Two corners were almost chewed through. Dave told me I should have taken a close up picture of the damage, but alas, I forgot. Needless to say, I had some repair work to do.




Once I had them repaired, my wonderful husband sanded the corners to perfection. They came out great. At first, I wanted to paint this table a soft gray, but then settled on a subtle white. I lightly distressed it and replaced the wooden knob with a pull that I sprayed black. I love the way it turned out. $95

rachael's school house chairs

Rachael is a photographer, and also a dear friend, who needed some kid's chairs painted. She didn't have them yet, but knew what she wanted - simple, different sizes, and painted in soft colors. I was able to find the following old school house chairs and went to work.



She wanted them painted a soft blue and yellow and actually requested the same blue that I had used on the rocker. She also wanted them distressed quite a bit to show up well in pictures and have that old vintage look.









The mistake I keep making is forgetting to take pictures, either before or after. So, thank you Rachael for taking and sending me these pictures after you got the chairs! Glad to see they are happy in their new home.

gray with a bit of burlap

Gray furniture and burlap material - two very popular things right now. I've wanted to do something with each. I combined them to redo a little girl's rocker. Probably not the most practical as I'm not sure how many girls have gray and burlap in their rooms. I kept telling myself I should paint this rocker white, but when I found this oops paint the other day for $.50 I decided to try it out. I added a little stamped butterfly at the top. Then I made a little burlap seat cushion, accented with satiny ribbons. It's definitely very shabby chic!

I totally forgot to do a "before" picture. So, you'll never know this rocker looked like before. Oh well...

Girl's gray rocker SOLD

Linking to Primitive and Proper

Girly stool

Here is another stool that I acquired from my mom. It looked like something from the the late 80's from the country blue, heart era. At first, I didn't really think I could do much with it. But then I thought maybe it could make a cute stool for a little girl's room. After all, what little girl doesn't like hearts?

Here she is, plain Jane...




And now...





It's finished in a very pale pink and accented with green grosgrain ribbon. $14

fun stool

My mom gave me this stool to redo and sell. It used to be my grandmother's, so it's really old and solid, but was a bit drab looking.




After a little updating...









The legs have been painted white and distressed, and the cover replaced in a fun geometric pattern. $24

rocker

I have a weakness for rockers, always have. My mom will tell you that when I was little I would rock myself to sleep on my "horsey." So, when I found this old rocker and the unique style of it, I snatched it up and gave it a nice little redo. Here it is before..




After..











It's finished in a soft tiffany blue and lightly distressed. $75