Gorgeous antique highboy restyled by yours truly using General Finishes Java Gel Stain on the top that I sealed with their new Flat Out Flat top coat! (They really knocked it out of the park with that formula!!!) I painted the body in Chalk Paint® by Annie Sloan in Pure White and the drawers and backsplash are in Duck Egg Blue! Just the right amount of distress gives the piece the right touch for its young age!!

May 26, 2014 · 

This is another early piece that also has no "before", so you'll have to settle for a "during"! wink emoticon This lovely little side table got two coats of Chalk Paint® Decorative paint by Annie Sloan in Old Ochre (LOVE!!) and a coat of clear wax before it was artfully antiques with dark wax.

My pal finally succumbed to letting me restyle her beautiful serpentine chest of drawers!! This mahogany beauty needed a full resurface on top, and that's what she got! The old finish, or what was left of it was stripped and sanded to bare. I stained the top with General Finishes Java Gel Stain that I sealed with GF High Performance Flat Top Coat. The base of the piece is hand painted with Chalk Paint® By @Annie Sloan in Old Ochre! It's easy to see why this is my most requested finish! It's a clean and timeless look for sure!

These are my little darlings, and what kind of mother would I be if I didn't paint for my own offspring? I don't know if any of you have teenagers, but they are seriously not down with my fancy-smancy antique looking designs on furniture! Zacky is a gamer, and a moody male testosterone factory, so black is just his color! I painted the body of his waterfall style low-boy with ASCP Graphite and sealed it with dark wax. The Triforce and Elemental Symbols from Nintendo The Legend of Zelda were painted freehand by yours truly, and then the entire piece got a coat of clear wax to deepen the color and give it that stunning shiny glow. Now for Alyssa's piece! Alyssa's taste is quite diverse, and I had a hard time deciding which direction to go. She's got a very scientific mind, and loves Star Wars, Star Trek, and Batman. She also has an affinity for the Brits! Dr Who, Gordon Ramsay, and of course Top Gear! (I adore Top Gear!! Those guys are hilarious!) So we went for the Union Jack Flag! This dresser is by no means Vintage. Actually, it's super new and nice! The front has a gentle curve to it, but the drawers close flush with the body, and it was absolutely perfect for this design, so I only painted the drawer section of the piece. The Chalk Paint® colors are Napoleonic Blue, Emperor's Silk, and Old White. It took several layers and lots of that awesome green masking tape! If you should ever decide to adorn a piece with this flag, hit me up! it should be laid out in a way that you're not re-taping and repainting to hide little errors that I made whilst painting the different colors. It got a coat of the Clear Wax and was ready for her garb!

My baby sister got married on Saturday, and I can't think of a better gift than a fantastic piece of restyled vintage furniture! She doesn't have any drawers in her kitchen, (seriously) so I found this little hutch to house her silverware! The outside got hand distressed Chalk Paint® By @Annie Sloan in Old White, and a pop of color in the backing with Versailles. I left the top of the cabinet and all the hardware in its original condition! Congrats to Ashli and Cody!!

Ok, so this little number was a $5 yard sale score! It was pretty disgusting when I got it. It was hella-dirty, and there was quite a bit of water damage to the inlay top, but is was solid and sturdy, and the bones are what count! I think this one took the last of what was my 1st can of Old White, or close to it. I painted the entire piece with that and that's when I noticed a problem. Because of the water damage, there was staining coming through the paint. If this happens to you, and it will if you paint long enough, run to Lowe's or Home Depot and grab a can of Bull's Eye Shellac. Shellac is an all natural sealant! I like the spray variety, but you can buy the brush-on type if you prefer. It dries in minutes, so a coat or 2 of that will "stop the bleeding". Another nice thing about shellac that you'll notice is that the paint seems to glide over it, and you don't need quite as much, which is good when you're spending close to $40 for a little quart of paint! Now, because the inlay was lifting in spots because of it's past neglect, I figured the best way to hide it was to color in the lines! Chevron patterns are pretty hot right now and so are yellow and grey, so Arles and French Linen it is! I sealed the whole this in Clear Wax, and low-lighted the details in Old White with Dark Wax! 

So I sold one of my display hutches this week, and needed a new home for the array of painting sundries that had been displaced. I had this lovely little farmhouse style number hanging out in my arsenal, and decided it was just the piece I needed!! After stripping and sanding the top of base, I applied two coats of General Finishes Java Gel Stain, which I sealed with several coats of GF High Performance Satin Top Coat. I'd been dying to paint with Florence Chalk Paint® for weeks now, so it was a no-brainer as to how to address the exterior. After moderate distressing, I sealed the paint and antiqued the entire piece with dark wax. I painted the interior Cream Chalk Paint® and left it clean. I kinda like it!