Showing posts with label spray paint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spray paint. Show all posts

25.3.10

Table= new bench?

I have had this old antique table that my grandmother gave me for quite some time. I have been looking at it, wondering what it could become.You see, it has met its days, especially because it has lived outside both at my grandmothers and here with me for the past little while. It has been painted and repainted before by grandma's loving hand...but I can't bear to leave it outside for another day, not when it's just so pretty! I mean look at those curves, those legs! Where can you get detail like that these days?




So I am going to do the impossible and bring it back from the dead and take it from a table to a bench...I will be Dr.Frankenstein!! bwaahaaahaa! Sorry about that...

Here is what I have planned. Clean it up and then paint it out white. Add foam and batting to the top and reupholster the top with some fabrics I've been sourcing, and finally bring it inside where it belongs.

So my lovely readers I need your help, I've picked out some fabric samples and would love your opinions, which fabric do you love, and what suits my neutral decor best?





26.8.09

wait until you see what I have in store...

I have had this antique Queen Anne style chair for quite some time and I really didn't know what to do with it, so I painted it blue...and I really didn't like how it turned out, so instead of finishing it I left it half sprayed until the day I could be inspired to transform it.

Well my friends that day has come, stay tuned for the reveal...I will give you all a small sneak peek at the inspiration photo below for what I have in mind:


My chair

Inspiration photo

2.6.09

Before & After


















Okay so here is the long story about my sideboard and how I came to acquire it. Let me preface this post by explaining that I had ordered my dining table from crate and barrel and had ordered the matching sideboard. The table arrived and it was in great condition however the sideboard was badly damaged, peeling stain ( I did not even know stain could peel!) and large scratches and dents. The C&B people were more than accommodating and shipped me a new one, however that was also damaged...of course they sent out another and well you guessed it also in bad shape! So I kept the table ( I love it`s classic lines) and then returned the sideboard, I just think that it was not meant to be, I mean how many times can something come damaged, it was definitely a sign!


So months passed and my lovely table was all alone, when by chance I was browsing on Kijiji and found this beauty!! The seller needed to sell it ASAP, and so I got it under $100, I could see it`s potential. And after a long days work and well really months of patient waiting as kismet would have it I finally got my sideboard and my table finally got it`s mate!