Two additional items....

Being added to the market place soon....

Adorable bench

 

Fun Frame with Chicken Wire

Check out pictures below for ideas...

The Awesome Ideas are limitless....

 

SOOOO

NOW I AM NOW WONDERING IF I SHOULD PAINT THE DRESSER I'M WORKING ON WHITE

I AM SO LOVING WHITE.....

HMMMMMMM

Dresser before I stripped all the paint

Work in progress

Almost ready for paint....

just a light sanding

Hardware with the paint removed

GORGEOUSSSS

FINALLYYYYYY....

SOME PROGRESS!!!!

I had know idea what I was in for taking this project on

Thank god I love redoing furniture 

or

By now I would have gauged my eyes out with the scrapper

I know that sounds harsh but if you have ever stripped furniture

your biggest nightmare is 

seeing a dozen coats of paint!! No kidding!!!

Makes a totally happy girl

frown and possibly say cuss words (lots of them)

Here is what I started with....

SOOO I started with a good pair of gloves

And two cans of stripper

a scrapper and metal brushes for the detail...

Had to do this Three times and ended up purchasing 

4 more cans of stripper 

Ended up with this

Yeahhh I am like are you kidding me.....

Did this two more times on EVERYTHING...

AND FINALLY READY FOR A LIGHT OVER SANDING AND THEN 

PAINT....WOOO HOOOO

FINALLYYYYYYY

Thank you sweet baby jesus

I felt like this was the never ending 

dresser....

ANDDDDD

I AM SOOOO SUPER EXCITED 

TO GET IT COMPLETED

BUTTTT HAVEN'T DECIDED

NOW WHAT COLOR TO PAINT IT?!?!

REALLYYYYYY.... WHO DOES THIS....

Paints a piece of furniture with 5 thousand coats of paint?!?!?! ANDDDD paints the hardware too

OK....OK so its only like 5 or 6 coats and way way more work that initially thought

BUTTTT

I will say this piece is going to be

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS

when its done

WHICH WILL TAKE A WHILE

ALONG WITH A COUPLE MORE CANS OF

PAINT STRIPPER AND TONS OF HARD WORK AND

EVEN MORE PATIENCE.....

But fortunate when I get a piece I get so darn excited to see the

finished piece I work my tail off to get it done....

I HAVE A FEELING THIS WILL BE ONE OF MY

FAVORITE PIECES!!!!
(And not just because I am working my tail off to remove all prior paint....well that may have just a lil to do with it )

Soooo in my head my plan was to paint this piece black but the I got a wild hair to take a look online for some ideas....

Here is what I am working with

 HERE ARE SOME "IDEAS" I FOUND....

PROGRESS

of said piece......

I was able to salvage the hardware

by boiling the hardware all afternoon and using a steel brush to clean it

Unfortunately there was a piece of hardware missing :(...

No fear I will be using most on this piece to keep it as close to original as possible!!!

Sooo I sprayed the stripper on

anddd

I will need to do this several more times (Boooo) 

BUTTTT trust in me once its done......
I can already tell it will be one of my favorite pieces!!!

Be sure to check it out
when I actually get it completed

HERE IS THE BEFORE

ANOTHER DILEMMA.....

AS I AM REMOVING THE OLD PAINT THE COLOR OF THE WOOD IS 

BEAUTIFUL

UGGGGGGG.....WHAT TO DO?!?!?



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Dreams Come True....

Michael Lynne

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