We did it!....

We finally painted a piece of furniture!

 It was actually my husband's find from our local Thrift Store.

I have been showing him some of what all of you have posted on

your blogs involving painted furniture.  

 He had his eye on this thing for over a month. But, it was marked

$69.99 and it was rough!  Plus, I wasn't crazy about it....

At All!

And we don't really need anymore BIG heavy pieces of furniture

in our Home.  We have too much!

 But, he talked me into it and on MLK day he asked me to stop

by and see if it was marked down yet!  He said if it is get it and

as luck would have it (for him) it was marked down because 

it was 75% off day and I got it for a whopping

$18.50....a couple days later we lugged it Home in the snow.  

Boy is it heavy!  It is solid wood and we had to take all the

drawers out just for me to be able to help with it.  Then we had

to, get this....put it on a plastic kids sled, which believe it or not

~worked amazingly~

and it saved my problem shoulder, slide it from the truck to 

the front door and somehow we got this thing into the house.

Then the fun began!

We didn't use Annie Sloan, we didn't use MMS, my guy's

what you'd call cheap frugal.  If there's a cheaper just as good

(does that sound right?) way of doing things that might be a

bit less expensive....he does it! And it usually does work

just as good well!

 ~Ta Da~

Here it is in all its glory!

I think I love it now....

Yep, pretty sure I do!

 We both did the painting....

he did the drawers and doors and I painted the "body"!

And as scary as it was for me, we both did the distressing.

He did more then me because I didn't want to mess it up.

But, I slowly realized....

you can't mess this up!  He did all the waxing and buffin'!

 All the drawers had their original hardware pulls and we liked 

them.  All we he did was clean them up a bit.  But the two

door fronts were missing their pulls and so we had to find some.

Where do you go for cute hardware for your furniture?

 Hobby Lobby of course!

and I found the perfect pair to match.  

They look like they're original!

Don't ya just love the curves on this thing?

I do too!

 Love these little medallions!

There are 4 of them....

 and behind these doors are 3 drawers that pull out

Love that!

We decided to keep them original and not paint....

What do you think?

 (you do not see the wood blocks under that corner)

No really you don't!

You all know we live in a very old house!

Things have settled a bit....okay  ALOT!

It will get fixed!

~someday~

 I just think it turned out amazing!

Sometimes he does get it right!

;)

We're not 100% sure we will leave this in our dining room

but, it sure would work great for laying out meals or

desserts at holiday time.  

I have to say, again....

I am loving this piece and can't wait to start another

project.  Which I plan to be doing in the next few days!

Stay Tuned!

As always I appreciate your stopping by!

Have a delightful day!

I have a picture, but for some reason I can't load it

So here's a list of what we used for this project:

Valspar Signature matte finish paint 1 qt.

Plaster of Paris

Minwax paste finishing wax

sand paper

painter's tape

plain ol' paint brushes

old torn up t-shirt

and his own little secret mixture in the wax to make it darker!

(just a note: we have quite a bit of the paint left for it being so big)