Thursday, January 17, 2013

Going Green Again

Green, oh how I love thee.  It's just hard to find a color as refreshing as green.  I honestly don't think there is a shade of green that I plain don't like.  I like it mossy.  From Olive to Teal, and everything in between, I love it.  It should be no surprise then that the first 2 colors of Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint that I ordered were the 2 greens, Lucketts and Boxwood.  My Lucketts dresser sold (several times, long story), as soon as I finished it.  Here is Boxwood in all it's loveliness.
She chipped and flaked and distressed beautifully...like magic!  It's rather funny, because the parts where I think it would not flake off, sure enough it does.  Not much predictability here, and wow what a fun risk to take on some pieces.

This dresser still had all of it's original hardware, and it was tarnished and dented a bit.  In my eyes it was PERFECT!  I will say this time, mixing the milk paint was super easy.  I had purchased a new better hand mixer for myself and I dedicated the old one to the workshop.  The paint turned out so much smoother.  Now, when I painted the Lucketts Dresser I hand mixed that paint.  It was a bit lumpy, but the lumps brushed out just fine when I was painting my dresser.  So really, I don't think it makes a difference in the end result, but it helps those of us who are probably a bit OCD handle using milk paint.

I love how well received these pieces are!  The shoppers at NJ & Company have been very complimentary about these pieces.  Needless to say, I placed another order for yet more MMS Milk Paint and have more chippy pieces (maybe) in my future!  And I think there will be more green in my future too.  It just makes me happy.

Warm Wishes to you!
Deb
Linking to:  http://missmustardseed.com/2013/01/furniture-feature-friday-favorites-a-link-party-15/

8 comments:

  1. it looks lovely!!! i loved the color but i thought it was going to have more yellow undertones than it did (referring to my own piece i did, not yours!) but i still loved it- a nice fresh green!

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  2. Love the green too. And, your distressing looks so natural. PERFECT.

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  3. Just found you on MMS's linky party. Love how this came out!

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  4. I'm loving the greens too! Maybe we're ready for spring already! Beautiful job on the dresser Deb!

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  5. Love this!! That green is beautiful!

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  6. This turned out beautiful. I started with tricycle red but I can see that I now need to order boxwood for a few projects I have waiting in the basement :o)

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  7. SO are you not having to distress these pieces like you would with ASCP? The MMSMP chips on its own? Just curious. I've yet to try it but will very soon.

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