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Chalk Paint Experiment on Chair

by Kay~Kacey on 10/4/2012

So, in order to try out the Annie Sloan chalk paint before I tackle painting the new farmhouse table that SuperGuy made…I decided to try it out on a chair.

old white chair

Icky old chair that I use in the basement to stand on to reboot my uverse backup…quite often I may add. But my uverse problems are another whole story…

So I sanded the chair down a bit.

provence chalk paint on chair

Then I painted it with Annie Sloan Provence chalk paint. What a pain to paint all those rungs and spindles!

annie sloan chalk paint chair
I painted two coats of the provence blue-green-ish color. Then I had to take just a bit of a break, don’t you know…

annie sloan chalk paint

Next, I painted old white over the provence color.

second coat of chalk paint
Then I used a damp rag to wipe away a bit of the old white to reveal the blue underneath. I tried to hit up places that would normally wear a bit on a chair.

I thought it looked pretty good when I finished…

distress chalk paint

Should have stopped there. I’m just sayin’. Then I waxed it with clear wax, then….BIG mistake…I used a bit of the dark wax to make it look a bit “older” or antiquey…it just looked dirty…no matter what I did. I was so disgusted, I didn’t even take a photo. Now I’m going to sand it back again and repaint the white. Sigh. Well, at least I’m making my mistakes on this chair and not the table…

Look How My Teal Office Turned Out-Plus More!

by Kay~Kacey on 10/2/2012

It is getting really exciting!! Look at my teal office!

teal office in new house with window seat

After all that teal anguish, I seriously love and adore the color and I love and adore my window seat!!! Yay for teal! Yay for…well…everything! And look at my pretty kitchen backsplash!

subway tile

White subway tile plus a cute little trime of light teal squares mixed in with white and greyish squares. I just love it.kitchen tile new construction

There is where SuperGuy’s new gas stovetop will be. My cute tile backsplash will look great behind it, won’t it??

In other news…we also got the deck put on! Here is SuperGuy relaxing…

new deck on house

Here is a picture of how the back of the house looks now. See all that dirt? Well, the next day we seeded all of that and strawed it! Color me exhausted!

back of new house construction

Here’s a sunset view from the side of the brand new deck…see, it still has sawdust! We had to have the contractor put the spindles a bit closer together than code called for so that the mischievous puppies couldn’t get through them!!

sunset view from deck

This is how we spent our first evening on the new deck…

relaxing at the new house

I know! It’s getting exciting! We’re getting so close!

The Farmhouse Table

by Kay~Kacey on 9/24/2012

So SuperGuy made me a custom made farmhouse table that will perfectly fit in our new breakfast nook. The one with the pretty windowseats!

kitchen window seat

Love, love the window seat with the beadboard. Just love it. Anyway, SuperGuy made me this farmhouse table just for that space.

pine farmhouse table

It’s pretty, too, isn’t it? He made it out of pine because I’m going to paint it. See the pretty tapered legs he made?

finished farmhouse table

It turned out so nice! Oh, in case you were under the impression that he ever cleaned up his messy garage? Let me dissuade you of that silly notion! (oh, my gosh, that link to the messy garage post…it was from 2008, just saying….)

handmade farmhouse table

Sorry, got a bit distracted there for a moment. I have heard rumors that his woodworking junk stuff things are headed to the new place, so I’ll actually, you know, be able to park in the garage. What a concept!

Sorry, distracted again… Anyway, I love the little details on this table. I know that no one will ever see how cute this looks where he put the side supports together. But I just love it. So, of course I took a photo of it to share.

DYI farmhouse table legs

He rounded the edges of the table. Nice little details.

farmhouse table edges

Then we moved the table over to the garage at The Love Nest. It sits here patiently waiting for me to paint it.farmhouse table in garage

But, I admit, I’m scared I’ll mess it up. It’s so pretty… I bought this Annie Sloan paint to paint the table. It’s a similar color to the teal we chose in The Great Teal Debate.

Florence Chalk Paint

Anyone ever use chalk paint? Its supposed to cover anything without priming. I’m hoping a bit of the knot holes and imperfections will still show through. After the teal color, I hope to paint white over it, then distress some areas down to the teal. Wish me luck…

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