Monday, August 5, 2013

New week, New color, New Tresures

It's Monday morning and after last week's excitement over the new colors in Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint line, we took a breather for the weekend and enjoyed a gorgeous RV trip to Mark Twain Lake in Missouri with our younger ones.  Sometimes a day or two of being away from it all is all one needs.  Although we were completely physically exhausted from running around a water park, back and forth trips to the playground and a few dips in the pool, I'm feeling refreshed and full of new ideas for a new week!

They are so sweet!  Big brother grab little sis for a photo opportunity in front of our home on wheels.

 Ok, back to work huh!  I want to start with this unique chest  I did for a client a few weeks ago.  We had snatched this one up on an online auction.  That was my first and last online auction.  You take a chance at what you're bidding on and sometimes pictures dont' show the damage within.  As beautiful as this piece is now, it didn't come that way.  Kevin needed to completely reinforce all of the joints and rebuild the bottoms of most of the drawers.  It's just one of those things that sometime needs to be done on these old gems.


THE BEFORE....
What's not to love on this beauty?  Those legs, that adorable cabinet and all original
glass knobs and pulls!

My client found this on my "pick it before I paint it page" on my website and wanted it painted in MMSMP Kitchen Scale.  Kitchen Scale is such a pretty color of blueish teal.  She wanted heavy distressing but not the chippy kind of distressing.  In order to achieve this, I first did a light sanding with the sanding sponge followed by a wipe down of a de-greaser called TSP (trisodium phosphate). I could have just added the bonding agent and been done, but I find it harder to achieve this natural distress when I do that, especially at the level she desired.

AND AFTER.....


Not sure what I love more the color, the glass knobs or the heavy distressing exposing a that lovely old wood finish.



Now onto well smaller yet just as unique things, this vintage side table.  I really wanted to use Miss Mustard Seed's new product called White Wax.  This is the coolest!  Not only do you get the effect of a white wash, you are actually waxing all in one.  And the smell is nice as well. I know that sounds weird, but Homestead Paints in Canada is the founder and manufacturer of Miss Mustard Seed's milk paint and they add scented oils such as lavender to their products for an extra bonus, love it! They are also a wonderful company to work with.  


This table is painted in Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint ™ Aubusson and Old White with a fun stencil on top done by our talented teenager Chloe.
We now call her the "stencil queen" around here!
The legs have been white waxed with Miss Mustard Seed's NEW white wax, but the top hasn't......yet


Tiny as it may be, this product does wonders!

A close look at just what it can do to a dark blue.  Simply beautiful!

I couldn't decide if I wanted to do the same white wash technique on the top of the table as I did the bottom.  But, after about  a day on the shop's floor it also got the white wash treatment.

What a difference an easy wipe down of the white wax can make.
 Next up,  a fun little vintage vanity or desk our other daughter Macey and I took on last week. I let my teenager decide on the color for this one. She wanted to play with a few of the milk paint colors, so we chose 2 shades of green to mix together; Kitchen Scale and Lucketts.  To be honest I couldn't tell you the exact ratio, but I believe it was close to 3 parts Kitchen Scale to 2 parts Lucketts.  After the first coat, we got a wild hair and decided to add a touch of Flow Blue to the mix just for kicks!  It gave it a really cool blue-teal-green 3D look!
Love the multi blue green paint job on this one!

Let's move onto what all the craze was about last week shall we?! When the mailman delivered my shipment of milk paints, I was so excited to paint the pieces I had been hoarding away in my garage.  I knew exactly what new color had to go on what piece.  This week I want to share 1 of the 3 new fabulous colors,  Artissimo. This color is a stunning midnight blue.  
As I was mixing it up, I could hardly contain my excitement of what it was going to look like once it dried and was sealed.  For the lucky piece that was chosen for Artissimo, this amazing antique dresser.  At first glance of this stunning piece, I knew it was screaming Artissimo!

THE BEFORE ARTISSIMO....
Not sure if this dresser is in fact an Empire dresser, but I'm still loving those curved legs!

And here is a great shot of one of those beautiful legs after just one coat of Artissimo.  The whole piece only took 2 coats.  I chose not to use the bonding agent, because I knew there wasn't a whole lot of varnish left on this old guy. Instead, I chose to simply wipe it down with TSP and it was good to go.  


Like all the other  beautiful colors of Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint,  Artissimo is no exception.


AND THE AFTER ARTISSIMO....



 The top of this dresser was in pretty rough shape, so I chose strip it down and refinish it in a rich dark walnut.  I was also digging the neat wood grain on the drawer fronts, so instead of painting over it, I simply painted a fun flourish using Artissimo. To seal the milk paint AND to restore the wood on those drawer fronts, I used the magic of the Hemp Oil.


This is one of those pieces that pulled at my heart strings knowing it was going to be sold soon.
I know it's a tough job, but someone has to it!


Not only have I been busy painting wonderful pieces like this, but my husband has been busy at his workbench building these awesome signs, frames and chalk boards using an one of those old dresser I talked about earlier.  This ones had amazing patina wood, but was beyond repair.  I took a while, but he was able to take it apart piece by piece and reuse the lumber to build these unique wall treasures. 
Thank you dear!


The wood on these signs just needed a drink of  Miss Mustard Seed's Hemp Oil to revitalize it.

I think this is one of my favorite reclaimed lumber projects.
What better way to show off your timeless photos?!


And that's all folks!  From a taste of the new colors and products to fantastic results, last week was packed full of bringing new life to forgotten treasures!

Up Next Week....


My wheels are turning on how to re purpose this old sewing cabinet.  Stop in again next week to see how it turned out! Thanks for visiting, have a blessed week everyone!







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