Fabulous Furniture Makeovers from our Latest Shizzle Workshop

I blinked and this week was gone! Between hauling the kids back and forth to Vacation Bible School and Cathy out with a horrible Strep infection, the week just went poof.

I’ve had a lot of requests for how some of the finishes were created so without further adieu, here are the makeovers from last week’s Shizzle Style Furniture Paint Workshop.

Gail made our paint class part of her vacation. She and her husband drove up to Michigan and spent some time near the Lakeshore in Holland before attending our class. She brought in the most amazing ornate table that she refinished in one of my signature paint finishes.

Didn’t it turn out stunning? You can learn how easy it is to create this look here.

Mary & Sue drove in together for the workshop. From the sounds of it, Mary would give Karen from Redoux Interiors a run for her money should they end up at the same dumpster.

She scores all sorts of things in the alleys on trash day including this unique side table. She had already started painting it before I captured the before picture, but there was a lot of decorative painting on it when she started similar to what’s on the top.

She slapped on a coat of CeCe Caldwell’s Michigan Pine in a few minutes.

She then slapped on CeCe Caldwell’s Kentucky Mint in random places. While she was doing this, we could see some of the original gold popping through so she worked that into the design by wet distressing back through.

A little bit of Michigan Pine was dry brushed after it was wet distressed.

To break it up and tie in with the hardware, Mary painted the top with CeCe’s Virginia Chestnut. I love, love, love the brown with it. I think it will look fabulous in her daughter’s tropical themed room!

Mary’s friend Sue brought in an old gossip bench from her entryway. She is a bit of a perfectionist so the thought of slapping on a bunch of paint made her nervous when she first started messing with it.

Sue wanted just a touch of white to show through under the red so she did a thin coat of Dover White then painted her bench with American Paint Company’s Firework’s Red. This is the most spectacular red! I just love this color! Did I mention I like it ~ a little?

She distressed it little by little to reveal bits and pieces of the white and wood underneath. I think the color is perfect on this piece!

I don’t know what setting I had my camera on, but it looks pink in this picture

It’s not really pink ~ for some reason the color is off on this shot

In person, Firework’s Red is the most rich, beautiful red ever!

This was another quick re-do during the workshop. Mary slapped one quick coat of CeCe Caldwell’s Santa Fe Turquoise on her metal parlor chair to use as a planter.

What a cool pop of color against the flowers!

Bonnie sells painted furniture at both the new and old Changing Thymes in Grandville, Michigan but she wanted to learn some new finishes to kick it up a notch. She brought in a small round end table which she base coated in CeCe Caldwell’s Vermont Slate. She then painted over that with a custom mix I made up for her of Omaha Ochre and Vintage White.

She wanted to do a similar finish to that which I painted on this dresser ~

Did I ever even post on this dresser yet? Oh zazooz! I’m losin’ it!

Bonnie wet distressed to pull back the top layer showing bits and pieces of CeCe Caldwell’s Vermont Slate.

The last piece painted at the workshop is a rustic nightstand. I actually thought it was a drawer when she first carried it in. Bonnie used a simple coat of Vintage White, wet distressed back to the wood and in a just a few minutes, she had created this!

Isn’t it adorable? It could go just about anywhere now!! Great job ladies!! Cathy and I had a blast ~ thanks for sharing your day with us!!

Heres a sneak peak of what I’m working on now… see ya soon!!!

Have a great night!! Shelly

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a hui hou!

Shelly

May 30, 2013

Vintage Dresser in Chesapeake Blue

” Well ~ Hello there!”

That’s how much confidence I think this old gal has now all decked out in her new threads! I think the look fits her personality perfectly ~ a little vintage chic yet colorful, classy and full of pizzaz.

My sister Cathy is the one who did this amazing makeover. She discovered this antique dresser in her son’s basement. She was looking a little worn down and aged when she found her.

But in no time, she had an entirely new look ~ I still can’t get over how cool it turned out. The variations and layering of color are so pretty!! If I’m type A, my sister is AAA ~ she REALLY fuses with her pieces, what can we say?

She used a color that I never would have tried because quite frankly, I thought it was a really ugly. I know! That’s not very nice ~ but I never would have pulled this color off the shelf…

until I saw this…

Boy was I wrong on THAT one! Just look at all this scrumptiousness!

Cathy painted the dresser in CeCe Caldwell’s Chesapeake Blue which is a blue, gray, with almost a periwinkle undertone.

She then washed over it with Dover White. Dover White best resembles the color of ground oatmeal flour. Not too brown, not too gray but with a rich, creamy color. It’s so pretty and without pigment so it’s quite translucent which create amazing affects when washed over other colors.

She sealed it with Clear Wax and while still wet, added a little surprise.

If you haven’t played with CeCe Caldwell’s Aging Dust in your wax then you’re missing out ~ Big Time! You just tap a little onto your brush and pounce it into and brush it into your wax while it’s still wet. Dip your brush into your Aging Dust then gently tap the excess off your brush before applying ~ like you would if you were applying a loose powder blush to your face.

The dust mixes right into the wax and adds tons of dimension!

So… huh, huh, huh? Did she do good or what?

I think she did and it sold almost immediately. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

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May 16, 2013

Everybody’s Gone Surfing…

Surfing U.S.A. I couldn’t help but sing when I finally finished this dresser that I’ve been tinkering with on and off for several weeks. I painted it three times trying to get it just right but each time I wasn’t feeling it. Am I the only one who does this?

I initially painted it in a rich green but felt this color was a bit too taste specific to sell quickly in our area.

Click here to see how it looked initially

You know me, I like to mix ‘em up so I layered over it to tone it down a bit.

The top was given one nice coat of APC’s Blue Jeans which has since been retired. I washed over that color with APC’s Surfboard. The two colors really pop one another!

The icing on the cake was when my friend Laurie stopped by and asked if I wanted to borrow her awesome stencil for anything. Um ~ YEAH!

I mixed up some leftover sample pots to paint a base color of orange then topped it off with another layer of yellow.

Scuffed it up a bit then sealed it with Clear Wax and off she went to the shop to await her new owner.

Ooo~La~La!

Finally ~ I Likey! What do you think?

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A hui hou ~ Shelly

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a hui hou!

Shelly

August 31, 2012

Destin Color Wash

A couple weeks ago while we were on vacation with our entire family, we ventured out in the morning for some espresso and we ran across a moving sale. Deedeedeedeedee deedeedeedeedee ~ our radar went off and there was no stopping us. We followed the signs several miles from the lake down the country roads.

The drive was worth it ‘cuz we scored! I’m sure we would have needed a U-haul had we found it a couple days earlier, because it was already day 3 and she still had cool furniture waiting for us.

One of the things we scored that day was a vintage stereo cabinet. It didn’t look like this when we found it. It was pretty much a medium dark orange stain color. I swear I took a before picture but it seems to have vanished ~ or maybe that’s it’s just old age, either way, I can’t find it.

I just couldn’t resist the character of this charming piece. It warmed my heart to imagine families sitting around the stereo listening to talk radio in the good old days. Can’t you just picture it? I keep getting images of The Waltons!

Needless to say, it made it’s way into the back of our truck.

Anyone who follows my blog knows that I have this thing for Destin Gulf Green and though I could imagine it looking great painted in several colors, I still went with Destin. I mean seriously, look at all that yumminess!

I thinned my paint with water to create a color wash and started slapping on my paint. I stopped when I got to the legs and decided to paint them in Virginia Chestnut (formally Hershey Brown) to create more of a statement.

I didn’t want it to look new, I never do. I try instead to accentuate the charm and character the piece already has. After all, isn’t that what we all love about these pieces anyway?

I got just the look I was going for with one coat of my color wash. The Destin Gulf Green dried really light, even with that thin coat then turned really dark when I sealed it with Clear Wax. Yes, that’s how dark it looks when the clear wax is applied, no worries ~ it lightens up again after the wax dries, not as light as the left hand side, it will be deeper and richer but much lighter than it is when it is wet.

When the clear wax was completely dry, I went over some areas with the Dark Aging Wax to add a little more dimension to the shabby look I was going after. The dark wax grabbed the areas where I had slopped the paint on earlier.

The original stereo has been replaced, but the one in there now still works fine, but this wind is making me CArazy. It keeps blowing the doors back when I’m taking pictures.

Did I mention the cool jewelry? I mean hardware – lol 😀 I just love it!!

I know I took a lot of pictures, but I just love this piece. I really wanted it for my own…

I was just starting to wander around my house to figure out where I could put it when someone showed up in my driveway and bought it on the spot. Oh well… there’s always next time.

There are so many cool colors you can come up with by experimenting a little with CeCe Caldwell’s Paints.

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