Sit-Stay

I'm working on a project that is taking a bit longer to get the details taken care of so I thought I'd give you a fairly quick finish done a few weeks back to tide you over.
No before because I just randomly plucked this chair out and started immediately one morning.  But imagine a 1966 special order (the tag with fabric swatch was still attached on the bottom), pickled oak chair with avacado green pleather.  After a coat of AS Primer Red, a top coat of AS Old Ochre, and a coat of CeCe Caldwell's clear wax (love it) this is what you've got. 

I've had this fabric on hand for a long time, but I thought I'd give this chair a little shabby cottage look that would work in lots of rooms. 

Some distressing added.

And there you have it.  Sometimes a girl just needs a nice, quick, straightforward piece to work on!
For all the locals, I am almost finished updating the Pieces for Sale page.  You can find the button at the top of the blog and take your time browsing.  All of these items are for sale all the time, you don't have to wait for the next Prairie Market if you need it now!  Just give me a call or shoot me an email.
Thanks!  Have a great Monday!
Deb

Classic

Good Monday everyone!  Hope your weekend was blessed with wonderful people, pleasant weather, and fun activities. 

I have a fun finish from the weekend to share today.  This piece served as a desk for us for a time, and just never really fit in after we moved.  I finally decided it was time to freshen it up and let it move away...well at least I can hope it will find a new home. 

The Harlequin pattern isn't something new.  You can find it all over blog land and Pinterest.  While this desk has a lot going for it already, this large top needed something special.

I love the effect this pattern gives on the desk top.  It just says classic to me.  I will say it is not exactly simple, but I found several really good tutorials and tools out there to help you figure out your measurements.  I did look them over and knew they were there, and then just threw caution to the wind and winged it.  Wonder where I got that from?  (Mom!)

Lucky for me it mostly turned out!  The desk is painted in Annie Sloan French Linen.  The harlequin design was painted on with a metallic silver leaf paint.  I did pretty heavily distress it because I didn't want it to be in your face silver.  I wanted almost a tone on tone appearance, but with a bit of shimmer.

The desk had pretty details like these corner rosettes.

Gratuitous leg shot!

While I love the color of French Linen I thought it needed a little pop of color somewhere.  I had these turquoise knobs on hand and decided they would be a perfect addition.  What do you think?  I also was really drooling to run to Anthropologie and pick up the Mercury glass knobs.  Hmmm.  I'll ponder this for a bit I think.  For now, I'm happy.

Here she is ready for that laptop or iPad.  The perfect size for a living room office or sofa table.  She'd also be perfect in an entry hall with a gorgeous piece of art or mirror behind her and place to set the mail and drop the keys.

Boy do I love pieces that are so versatile!  The sun is shining so that's a bonus and we're off to a great start to the week!  Have a good one!

Deb
Linking to:
http://elizabethandco.blogspot.com/2012/02/be-inspired-features-and-link-party-8.html
http://primitiveandproper.blogspot.com/2012/02/piece-of-work-wednesday-furniture-link_28.html
http://chattychics.com/2012/02/28/need-inspiration-wild-wednesday-5/
http://missmustardseed.com/2012/03/furniture-feature-friday-a-link-party-2/

The Dog Days of Summer

Nope, no pictures of our cute pooch here.  I'm talkin' the Summer weather.  The suck the air right out of your lungs, hot, humid, drippy, days of July that have me draggin around here!  It's just stinkin' hot and no chance of getting out and about to do much of anything unless you enjoy "glistening", as in dripping the whole glistening lake off the end of your nose.  Yuck.  This is my least favorite time of the year.  Now I know I've bragged about my great Mr. before, but you want to know what that Saint of a Man did for me?  He went and added an air conditioner to my workshop.  Ok, it's his workshop too, but I'm in it way more than him, so I'm going to pretend it was all just for me!  I love my Mr.!  Ok, enough PDA for today.

I do have a reveal, and of course, I don't have a before.  Why?  Because I was just itchin' to work on this piece and impatiently dived right in.  This was another rescue piece from a neighbor's garage sale.  It had lived in their garage for quite some time.   It was dirty, the paint/heavy stain was scratched.  It was dinged up and the drawers needed some realignment and shoring up.  Lots of sanding later, and some Aubusson Chalk Paint, Ebony stain, Antique Oil, and handcrafted knobs from Vintage Skye and this is what you get. 

With the original sanding I made sure to leave some of the old stain so that it would show through when distressed.  After painting I pretty heavily distressed this dresser.  The Mahogony top looks great with the ebony stain on it, and I love, love, love the way the Antique Oil just melts into the wood and stain and gives you a nice hard, hand rubbed finish.  The knobs are fabulous and I was so excited to get them on this piece!

This dresser's dove tailed drawer's sides and back were all made out of cedar.  If I were keeping it I would store my completed hand hooked rugs in this dresser to keep away any stray moths or buggies that managed to get in.  

One of these days I'm going to have to show you some of my more neglected hobbies!  This dresser will be for sale at The Prairie Pickers and Peddlers Market (see the tab above for info.) unless someone wants to take it home before then.  So, if you wait until October you might just be too late!

Linking up to:http://primitiveandproper.blogspot.com/2011/07/piece-of-work-wednesday-furniture-link_19.html

AND

http://restoreinteriors.blogspot.com/2011/07/restored-it-wednesday_19.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FueolG+%28RESTORE+INTERIORS%29

AND

http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/2011/07/furniture-feature-friday-link-party.html

Have a Wonderful Week!

Deb