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Ready for part 2 of how to refinish a kitchen table? This part was a lot of fun, and involved a lot of patience! 🙂 My advice to you would be to grab another table to have set up in your kitchen while you are working on your current one so that little hands wont be too curious! These...
Happy Monday! I hope everyone is having a great day, and had a fun weekend! Here in Utah we got a lot more snow and have been setting records like crazy this month. From high snow totals to freezing rain to record cold temps and of course the haze. Yes, we Utahans pay for leaving...
I have yellow drapes in my family room. I love them because it helps the room to be bright and cheery. I decided to leave them up for the winter because I don’t have money to get new ones right now and I think I can make them work through the winter by simply modifying...
Have you ever been in a stinky situation in the bathroom? Well, more specifically one that involves something going into the toilet that shouldn’t be there? Bathroom Tongs can save you in this situation! Today I am going to share some advice for parents with toddlers. It is something simple and something that has saved...
Paul and I recently built a home (we feel very lucky and blessed that we were able to do this). While our home was being built we lived in my parents basement with a very young baby and a rambunctious preschooler. We were there for eight months, and in those moments of peace when the...
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Camilla, that looks amazing. I am sure it looks fantastic in your new home. Way to go!!!
LOVE it. grey is my favorite, and this is gorgeous! great job!!
It turned out gorgeous!! Thanks for sharing!!
you may have already covered your chairs but I am about to do a similar project and did not want the plastic either. With 4 kids I needed some stain resistance. I bought oil cloth. It comes in a ton of print options, not too expensive but can wipe clean!!
Good luck!
I still need to paint them, but I did find fabric that already had a plastic like material sealed to it that works rather well. I want to see your before and after Picts! Thanks for the tips!
I love it! I’m going to greywash my table in a few weeks and this is exactly how i’d like it to look. I have just a few questions. So you said you painted the table the grey (looks like its a relatively light grey)with a few coats with a roller then the next thing you say is about the trick to drybrushing…was that with the same grey for the first, solid coats? As for the glaze, do you tell them how much black to add or do you just say you want black added and they just do it? Thanks so much! I hope mine turns out half as good as yours did!
oh! one more question! How has it held up? I have little kids too so I’m curious! 🙂
Hi Leah!
It has held up really well! I have had a couple instances when the paint was fresher that I didn’t remove a cereal bowl with milk below it that became stuck and pulled little bits of the paint. 🙁 so when the paint is new-ish keep an eye on that.
The glaze was mixed with black paint and was actually left over from a neighbors project. To the eye it looked pretty black though. The white wash was actually using white paint mixed with water once my grey coats had dried. I still love it! I hope I answered all of your questions!
~good luck!
Camille
I recently glazed some of our cabinets with an antiquing glaze that Lowes sells by Valspar that worked great. They ended up looking very similar to what you have here.
How did you decide what finish to go with? What are the qualities of it? I originally tried a lacquer on an area of my cabinets that yellowed the area (painted white) that had to be redone. I’m fairly new to artistic painting with furniture, especially with holding around little hands and accidents :).
Hi Elisabeth!
I wanted something that looked “beachy” and was hoping that there would be some grain wood underneath when I sanded the table down because it is is a great table. I was shocked to find that it was a composite wood with no grain! That is why I used this hand brush technique to mimic what wood grain stained would look like.
So far I’ve had no yellowing and until I can get a new table I just keep changing up this old one! 🙂
I kind of just made this up and applied different bits I had learned from reading other tutorials online. And yes, little hands can get in the way sometimes!
Well, I think you did an awesome job, especially love the glazed carvings, and I’d keep that table til it fell apart! I:)
If for some reason you absolutely can’t live with the appearance after glazing, and if you realize this rather quickly, you can wash the glaze off and let dry and redo.
Please send tips for chairs