I still have a few large frames that can be made into similar styles and painted in your choice of colors. Contact me if interested before I make them to place in the store! Prices vary with size and finishes. Thanks
I made this to sell at the store but decided to keep it. It is the perfect decorative solution for hanging cards which usually obnoxiously line my doorways and flop off or get banged around (then I feel guilty that someone's face is bent up). The chicken wire frames could serve the same festive purpose. Both the twine and wired frames are extremely versatile for year round and special occasion uses.
I still have a few large frames that can be made into similar styles and painted in your choice of colors. Contact me if interested before I make them to place in the store! Prices vary with size and finishes. Thanks
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I was whipping some serious front-summies (on the inside) when my daughter hopped on my little paint wagon and wanted to redo a French provincial desk I picked up to refinish and sell. How could I refuse her pleading pretty eyes? Plus, it was a chance to do something together, which is not very often once teenhood hits (at least around here, the hang with Mom thing is not a sought after pastime). I thought 'oooh, I can teach her and we can laugh and share stories and be close and'..... Nope. She wanted to call it her own, and so I was promptly demoted from a partnership to a supervisory level. Front-summies turned to somersaults. Ok, I'll take what I can get.
She was all over it in a heartbeat, and with some instruction and overseeing, she conquered almost the whole thing on her own within two days. So much for the mom-daughter time. I only touched up, smoothed things a bit and helped with the top coats. She was determined to redo it, and she did, a bit too quickly for my let's-spend-a-month-doing-this-together heart. I must say, she done me proud. I get a little gushy when I pass her room and see her hard work sitting pretty under her window. Sigh of joy. My daughter, however, vows she will never paint another piece of furniture ever again. Score for me on the appreciation chart though maybe? P.s. The phone doesn't work, she is just fascinated with it. This is an antique, four drawer, cedar lined armoire/chifferobe with original sunken wooden pulls. It is an amazing, solid piece with the great craftsmanship typical of yesteryear construction from the roll trim top to the curve-carved feet. You may recall me stating in the teaser that I was confused about which wax to use. Well, I stayed confused. What do I do in such times of brutal indecision? Use all possible choices. Yes, that's correct. I used all three waxes - clear, dark and white. So on went the first coat of clear wax. I could not shake off my original vision of it in the beautiful watery color with a white-washed effect. So next came a testing of dark wax to rule it in or out. Too dark. Tested the white. Too white. So I rubbed on the white wax all over to get a better idea of tones. But, after applying it, I needed to tone down the white a smidge. It needed to be one notch less white. So, on went a light rubbing of dark wax. Then I wanted to be sure the white was dominant so on went another rubbing of white. Then some areas seemed a bit too solid white, which can happen, so I dry brushed the paint over the front. Much better. However, this required another clear coat. Iyiyi. I am so sick of waxing. For today. However, the end result is precisely how I first pictured it when it came through my front door and stood all brown and dull on my cardboard painting station. White-washed watery blue. It wears it so very well, in my meager opinion. The decoupaging adorning the bottom is like a delicate floral lace skirt. Because I loved the print so much and thought it quite quaint for the piece, I put it in the recesses of the wooden pulls. Then I drilled holes in each center and put a little glam with diamond cut glass knobs in each one. I am just so in love with the whole thing. I also lightly distressed the edges of the body and the full bottom decoupaged cuff, allowing glimpses of the blue to sneak out from underneath like a little kid stealing a shy peek from behind the mother's skirt. To me, this piece is soft and feminine and fun. Plus extremely functional. A thought of adding a slim mirror to the door flickered across my trail of design images. Well, I will yap no more and get to the photos. I have requested Photoshop for Christmas (Mom, that's a subliminal message for you) so that the bright, true and detailed colors can be accurately reflected online. These shots don't quite capture the white wash over the aqua as the real life piece shows it. Taking indoor photos is basically the pits. For now, here is the best I could do: Before: The dimensions are 61" H x 36" W x 20" D. The bottom is open deep space which stretches underneath the panel of drawers for even more storage. The perfect size to store gobs of stuff but not overwhelm a room. Available to grace your space! Linking up with: http://missmustardseed.com/…/furniture-feature-friday-favo…/ Feathered Nest Friday I say that, but then at any point during the refinishing process I am likely to keep adding or changing the plan. This part of the set (so far I'm doing it as a set still) should be done today or tomorrow. The 'before' teaser photo was of its sidekick. I have such a difficult time narrowing design down to a final decision! Anyway, here are a couple snippets of the almost-done portion of the so=far set. They came out a little gray, probably because it is gray out, but the true color is a soft, cheery, blueish aqua called watery.
One of the final steps I can't decide is whether to leave it clear waxed or dark or white wax it. Uuuhhhh.... |
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