General Finishes Milk Paint: Buttermilk Yellow Desk

Free furniture is the best furniture.

Even if the drawers are a little crooked.

My friend gave me a desk and I fell in love with the legs. 

 I have been using a lot of General Finishes Milk Paint lately and I can't get enough of the stuff. 

I painted a buffet, desk, my kitchen chairs and my entertainment center with their paint (posts coming soon).

The main reason I wanted to use GF on this piece was because I didn't want to prep and sand this piece. 

It was shiny and I was feeling lazy. 

GF sticks to everything!!!

  I used Buttermilk Yellow on this desk and then I distressed with my hand sander. 

 See the second drawer that doesn't close all the way?!

 I found these pulls at Home Goods!

 This is the room you first walk in when you enter my house. The front door is to the right of the desk. The first thing you see is my new work area and my fancy couch.
I really love that couch. It is used for extra seating, reading with my 5 year old and my cat has claimed it has her new bed.

I use an extra kitchen chair as my desk chair. This particular chair was painted seagull gray. Yep, that's a GF color. It is the perfect shade of gray.

 Have you met Quincy?

If you follow me on facebook you can see even more pictures of this handsome boy.

He likes to lay at my feet when I paint or try to lick the paint. Depends on his mood! 

(no worries, we stop him before he can get into anything)

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Changing Table Painted Red

A previous client of mine is expecting her second baby and she needed a changing table/dresser. She found this changing table on Craigslist for $10. Lucky lady! 

Before

After

 She wanted her piece to be a deep red. My most popular red pieces are posh red and glazed so we went with what works.

Since the original wood was so light I only distressed the edges instead of the drawer fronts and the sides.

Posh red can be found at Lowe's at the pulls are from Hobby Lobby.  

One more look! 

 

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Spring Inspired ~ General Finishes Milk Paint

Hello again!

These blogging breaks keep getting longer and longer. My sincerest apologies. 

 Let's move on to the pretty stuff! I'll put all the details at the bottom of this post.

 

 General Finishes Milk Paint sent me a few paint colors, glaze and sealers to try. To make sure I had enough paint to complete this entire piece I had to mix colors . General Finishes, by far, is the best paint I have used to date. There were hardly any brush strokes, I didn't have to prep and it dried hard! Even though it's called milk paint, it's not like the powder form. It is already mixed and it doesn't get "chippy" like other milk paint. It's not as watery as milk paint...it's somewhere between milk paint and latex paint.

Love this stuff!! 

About the color.

 I mixed 2 parts Basil to 1 part Halycon Blue. It was a gorgeous shade of blue-green. It just wasn't the look I wanted so I mixed a few other colors to achieve the final look. At this point I didn't measure but I mixed in a little Coastal Blue, Lamp Black & Van Dyke Brown Glaze. It turned out to be a deeper blue with grey undertones. Perfect! 

You don't have to a top coat with General Finishes but I used paste wax to seal this piece.

 Our school is having a silent auction and I wanted to donate something fun and different for the auction. 

 I wanted to add something pretty to the drawers to entice bidders. Especially the female bidders!

 I found the fabric at Handcock's for $6.99 a yd. 

I kept going back and forth on the fabric but I had to pick something and stick with it. Yes, it's bright and bold...and probably not for everyone. 

On the other hand, it screams spring and it's a nice surprise when you open the drawer.

Let's start the bidding!

If you would like to purchase General Finishes you can visit their webpage (click here) or get inspiration from their Facebook page (click here).

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First Project of 2014

Happy Belated New Year!

I haven't been posting a lot of furniture projects lately and I blame life. You understand though, right?

I've been busy with a lot of custom orders but not much time to document them.

 Blogging is hard but Facebook is easy. 

If you follow me on Facebook you'll see a lot more compared to the blog. I apologize in advance. 

Here is the first (documented) furniture piece of 2014. 

It's a pretty one.

 I thought I had a before picture but it's nowhere to be found.

To make up for not having a "before" picture I will share way too many "after" photos.

 

 

 I wish I had a paint color for you guys. 

I accidentally spray painted over the label. 

However, I do know it's from Sherwin Williams & I'm planning on having them color match it in hopes of getting a name for it.

The hardware and fabric are both from Hobby Lobby. 

I really wanted to keep the original pulls but they didn't all match. 

I think these are fun & modern though.

Maybe my resolution should be to post more furniture makeovers!

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