Last month I painted a dresser with bohemian vibe by giving it a very artistic paint job. What was once a regular, traditional style dresser is now a work of art with loads of storage. The dresser came with a huge mirror that I debated whether or not to paint it to match. I'm so glad I went for it because the mirror really made the piece. See for yourself!
I love painting like this because I can have complete, creative freedom. The base color is a deep teal chalk paint and a blended in lighter turquoise, I then layered on the accent green colors. Distressed it and gave it multiple coats of poly, sanding between coats as always for a super soft smoothness.
This dresser is super solid, with 9 dovetailed drawers and it was made by Heywood Wakefield. The original hardware looks so amazing up against the deep color, and the mirror makes a huge statement. I love the outcome of this piece.
I'm back with another piece that I worked on in the month of January. I bought this vintage oak dresser from a person via Craigslist. Once I brought it home I knew exactly what I wanted to do to it.
I sanded it, and sealed it inside and out twice with shellac drawers and everything because it had a cigarette smell. Now, I didn't notice this when I bought it, otherwise I would have passed. Then I sanded it again and proceeded to paint it with chalk paint.
The top section was curved and I wanted to accent that feature, which is why I went with the two tone. Black on top and white on the bottom. I purchased small, white knobs for the two top drawers and contrasting black ones on the bottom. The inside of the drawers had seen better days so I added a modern liner. I sealed this piece with wax for a soft buttery feel.
Hello, is anybody here? I've been absent from the blog for a couple months now and I wanted to check in and share some things. I'm going to start with a few of the furniture pieces that I have done lately. Then I thought I could talk about some of the changes we've made to our house in the last couple of months. How does that sound? Good? Okay let's do it! Let me begin by saying that having an Etsy store has been helping me tremendously with selling furniture so I am very thankful for that. One of the pieces that I redid was this beautiful blue mid century modern dresser.
This is a vintage Basset dresser that I completely sanded, primed and painted with Sherwin Williams high gloss advanced formula paint. I added new glass hardware and spray painted the original bottom pulls in brass. It is quite a stunning piece!
It now lives with a young lady in Brooklyn NY, who fell in love with it and could not resist it's gorgeous new look.
Next up is this campaign dresser. This was definitely the most popular guy in my Etsy shop. I received so many emails for this piece and it too sold quickly. I have a few campaign pieces in stock ready for a makeover so it wont be long before I have another one available in my shop. If you are on the hunt for one keep an eye out on my shop, these things sell like hot cakes.
The last piece I'm going to share today is this sexy little black coffee table. It's painted in glossy black, new hardware from Anthropologie and lined drawer. This piece is still available in my shop! ** Hint, hint ;-)
That's all for furniture today! I have a bunch of more pieces in my Etsy shop all painted by yours truly, so make sure you stop by and see whats new! As for house projects, oh my! Where do I start? I would say none of the rooms look quite the same. Our Kitchen got new appliances, Yey!!! This new appliances led to some other changes like adding a wall of cabinets and open shelving. I'm not sharing the after pictures yet because I haven't styled them yet but here's a sneak peek of what's going on. It's like an early Christmas for me this year.
Yes it's ugly and messy but I assure you when I post the reveal pictures you are going to love the changes. You probably noticed that the cabinet doors are missing. Yeah, well when I painted those suckers a few months ago they started bleeding so I put it off for a while but I finally sanded them back down, primed them with oil based primer this time and painted them. No more bleed through just bright white, beautiful cabinets now!
A few other projects we've tackled around here include finally painting the trim and doors in our hallway. Refinishing some furniture pieces, rearranging the living room furniture, still not sure of how I feel about the furniture in there but the layout is working. We cleared out our storage room and made a gym in there, we are painting it this weekend and I'll share that too. Also our entryway/home office is sporting new furniture pieces as well. So yes lots of changes but all for the better.
The trim got a fresh coat of primer and two coats of bright white making everything shiny and new again. I painted the doors with a medium grey color and I love the combo. These are just some of the pictures, but I will be sharing complete afters of every room when I get to that. Also the color on the gym is the one we will be painting over not the new color. That is Pantone's peacock, my daughters chose it when we first moved in because that was their bedroom before. It's a beautiful bold color but I want something more light and subdued to go with the rest of the house.
That is all for this little update of what's going on around here. I'll be back to share more updates soon! If you want to see progress on other spaces please visit the Our Home tab on the top bar. Thank you for stopping by :-)
I finally gave my front door a makeover with Modern Masters Front Door Paint. I should probably warn you that this post is before and after picture heavy. This project has been a long time coming. We've been wanting to up the curb appeal of our home since day one and we have slowly been working on it. When I say slowly, I mean turtle speed slow. Last year we replanted some shrubs, added a little pine tree in the front, switched out the red mulch for brown mulch and called it a day. This year we replaced all the windows, happy dance!
Actual 1st Before picture. Note all the horrible dry trees and overgrown ugly shrubs
After we removed the uglies, transplanted the pretties, re-mulched and planted a pine tree.
Much better, if I do say so myself!
Pretty mulch, cute shrubs, good enough to hold us off for a year!
One year later, after adding new windows!
NOW!
A little over a month ago, just as spring was ringing in (perfect timing), I was contacted by Modern Masters to see if I wanted to try out some of their paint products. When I saw that they offered Never Fades Front Door paint I knew this would be a great opportunity to spruce up our front doors. Painting the doors also gave us the push we needed to tackle some other outdoor projects that we hadn't gotten around to.
Our house has two front door entrances which is kinda weird and one was painted blue and the other one was left untouched in its' original pre-primed state.
Before Door Number 1
Before Door Number 2
To get started on this project, I cleaned the doors with TSP, the blue door got a light sanding beforehand. I bought a quart of Zinsser Bulls Eye and had it tinted grey for the white door. The blue door did not need to be primed so I just went ahead and started painting it.
One coat of grey primer, and edging the window of the door with paint
After 1st coat of paint on primed door
After 1st coat of paint on blue door
We chose the color "Elegant" which is a rich, black shade. I shook the can really well and used a stirring stick to mix all the ingredients well. The first thing I noticed upon opening the can of Front Door Paint was that the consistency of the paint was really thick. I used a 2 inch angled brush and a 4 inch foam roller to apply the paint. The paint went on smooth, and dried quickly. One of my favorite things about this paint is that I was able to re-coat the doors after only one hour. Which meant that I could finish this project in just a few hours and the doors were fully dry and ready to close within a couple of hours of finishing painting.
My doors required 3 coats of paint for complete coverage. I did end up applying a fourth coat of paint, only because I didn't stir the paint before the third coat so the sheen was uneven.
***Tip, always stir your paint while painting and between coats so that you get a nice uniform color and sheen***
After door number 1
After door number 2
Here is their How To Paint Your Front Door video!
If you prefer the reading version here is a link to the Step by Step Instructions. Their website also has an app that you can download to help you pick out the perfect paint color for your front door and lots of other helpful information. You can purchase the paint through their online store at shop.modernmasters.com, at Home Depot online store, Amazon or check their website under find a retailer.
When I was done painting the doors I knew it was time to finally switch out our old house numbers and mailbox. We had purchased them months ago but just never got around to it. The old mailbox was very rusted and small. We updated our house numbers with some sleek, simple ones and a DIY project that I will share a how to on later.
We also changed the light fixtures by the garage. I bought those over a year ago because I found them on clearance but never really got around to changing them until now. Now that we have an idea of how we want the front of our house to look we are going to change the color of the light fixtures to match the one we will be getting for the other door.
We wanted to paint the garage door in the same color as the doors but I didn't think I had enough paint left. I really think that it will tie things up pretty nicely. So that is a project we will be doing in the future, along with some other ideas we have to spruce up the curb appeal.
Panoramic view of the front of the house
This Front Door Makeover with Modern Masters really kicked up the curb appeal of our home a notch and gave us the motivation we needed to kick start on some other outdoor projects. We have since done a few other improvements that I will be sharing soon! We are so pleased with how the curb appeal of our house is looking! Even a couple of our neighbors stopped by to say the house was looking gorgeous! This really was a perfect Memorial Day weekend project! Did anyone else work on improving the curb appeal or some other fun outdoor projects on this beautiful Memorial Day weekend?
***Thanks to Modern Masters for providing me with the Front Door paint, so that I could share my completely honest review with my readers. All thoughts and opinions stated in this post are 100% truthful and my own***
