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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Secondhand Scores Transformation | Mounted Deer Heads

My favorite thing is when some of my secondhand score items that I get at completely different times come together to create an awesome project.

That is exactly what happened with these $.50 plastic deer heads.

How weird are these? I have no idea how these were used originally, but for $.50 I couldn't pass them up.

I knew I wanted to mount them so I went through my pile of garage sale wood plaques to find ones that would work with the heads. I see these things at garage sales all the time for like $.05-$.10 each. I like to think of them as a craft that never was.

I found two that fit, although they were not the exact same shape. I stained them with Minwax Dark Walnut.

To reduce the creepy factor, I spray painted the heads white. They had holes in the backs that I was able to put wood dowels in and then stick them in the ground for easy spraying.

The final step was mounting them. Since they had a hole in the back, I put a screw in the wood and put the heads over that. I did need to use glue to keep them straight on the wood. I used E6000.

I used them on my decorative shelves that I put seasonal decor on. I don't have a mantle, so this is the next best thing.

Of course the shelves and everything on them except for the fake candles are secondhand scores.

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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Black Waterfall Dresser

This huge waterfall dresser was so dark and dingy.

I chose black for its makeover.

I painted it with two coats in DIY chalk paint and distressed slightly. I then covered it with Martha Stewart metallic glaze in Black Coffee. It is hard to tell in the photo, but it really does give some dimension to the black.

I completely transformed the hardware by simply soaking them in ammonia and buffing them to a shine with a green scrubbing sponge.

They really pop off the black and become the star of the show.

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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Mid Century Modern Mint Dresser

One Monday a while back I found an ad on craigslist about free furniture. It said to get there by Sunday (the day before) or the garbage men would take it. I took the chance to drive by Monday night to see if anything was left.

It looked like everything was left! If you can believe it, I only took the two dressers the arrows are pointing to. The rest were a bunch of desks and broken pieces.

This is the dresser that was upside down and backwards at the top of the photo. A really cool mid century modern dresser.

So far, I have gotten the chance to paint two other mid century pieces and those were also free!

Free MCM Table

Free MCM Dresser

But I painted those white and I wanted to do something different. I chose a mint color oops paint that I have had forever.

I sanded down the three drawers on the right and taped off the wood elements on the drawers to the left. I used two coats of the mint color (mixed into homemade chalk paint), distressed and waxed with Minwax finishing paste. I waxed the drawers on the right with AS dark wax.

I started painting at night so the color didn't feel as bright as it did once I moved it into the sun. It may be a little edgy for my area, but I hope someone likes it.

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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Eight Table Makeovers

Here are eight table makeovers I have done over the past year that I thought would be fun to put together in one post.

::Tables 1 & 2::

Both tables were painted with Safe Paint (milk paint for walls) from The Old Fashioned Milk Paint Co in their Federal Blue color. The bottom table's grain sack (or racing?) stripes were done in Valspar Churchill Hotel Vanilla.

::Tables 3 & 4::

Two more tables painted with Safe Paint (milk paint for walls) from The Old Fashioned Milk Paint Co. This time in their Buttermilk color.

::Table 5::

This table was done in Valspar Churchill Hotel Vanilla.

::Table 6::

I freshened up this metal and glass table with gold Rub 'n Buff.

::Table 7::

Three coats of an oops paint color in red gave this table a nice country look.

::Table 8::

Valspar Midnight Fog is this table's modern color.

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Sunday, October 19, 2014

French Provincial Bedroom Set

The consignment store, where I sell my furniture, sometimes gives me pieces to paint. It's usually a dresser or table or some chairs. This time it was a whole bedroom set.

An entire French Provincial bedroom set! These pieces are big and heavy but interestingly enough, not actually solid wood.

Above is a view from the back of one of the nightstands. You can see the top is an extremely thin layer of veneer over pressboard and just the edge is wood.

Above is a photo of the underside of one of the drawers. It is molded plastic over pressboard. The head board is also a mix of wood and molded plastic.

The beauty of the homemade chalk paint is that it will stick to anything! So I knew it would be no problem to paint it.

Because of the thin veneer on the tops, I ruled out refinishing them and chose to paint them black. I painted the body of the pieces Valspar Classic Teal.

Everything got two coats of paint, distressed, glazed with Martha Stewart Metallic glaze in Black Coffee and then finished with wipe on poly.

Because of the incredible detail in this set, I had to use an artist brush to get the glaze in all the details. It was definitely a labor of love, but totally worth it!

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Secondhand Scores Transformation | Mounted Deer Heads

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Black Waterfall Dresser

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Mid Century Modern Mint Dresser

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Eight Table Makeovers

Sunday, October 19, 2014

French Provincial Bedroom Set