FRENCH CHAIRS ~ You’re Hired!

Hi Sweet Friends!  Hope this finds you having a good day.

My continued thoughts and prayers are with those touched by the events in Boston and Texas.

Lately I have been painting more and more furniture for the shop, but never in a million years did I think about doing commission work.  Well, I have just completed my first job for an interior designer who hired me to paint a pair of French chairs and a few other pieces for her clients!

My thoughts on painting…

I don't enjoy having to do a lot of prep work prior to painting a piece of furniture.  The thought of stripping the old paint or varnish, sanding, wiping down, painting, sanding again, painting another coat, adding a possible sealer coat…oh my, so much work!  I'm not crazy about painting walls in our home either because I'm too messy!
Mr. Heart could paint a whole room with red paint and a paint brush and when he was finished there wouldn’t be a drop of paint  on his hands, the floor, or on his clothes and the paint brush would only have paint half way up the bristles with not a smudge on the handle!  He's so neat!

And then there’s ME, who can just open the can and by that one act will already have paint on my

hands, the brush, the floor, the bottom of my feet and the top of my head...just from opening the can!  No matter how hard I try, how neat I try to be, I end up wearing the paint.  It baffles me!

Which is why I am so happy chalk paint came on the scene.  It requires very little prep, easy to use, and is easy to clean up. (off the brushes and off of me!)  Truth is, the fun part for me is when the painting is done…over…finished!  I like the finished product way more than the process of getting there, but with chalk paint I do enjoy painting more than I used to.

I am always so excited when a piece I painted sells.  Makes me feel that I must have done a pretty good job for someone to buy it for their home.  Guess it doesn't really matter how messy I get while painting it, just so it's pretty once finished!  I was excited to be asked to paint these pieces, but I was also nervous.  Here are the French chairs that were just completed…

 

Originally they were stained a dark wood tone.  She wanted a soft off-white with just a bit of antiquing to show off the detail, and preferred no distressing…

Here we go and look…no paint on the floor! (yet)

After two coats of Old White, waxing still to come…

Once finished I was asked to send her some pictures because she was out of town, so I took them outside…

 

The detail shows up better in this picture.  Antiqued, waxed and buffed to a shine…

 

 

There they are!  I can’t wait to see which upholstery fabric is used, she’s promised to send me pictures!

How about you … do you love to paint or just glad when it’s finished?

Blessings,

Cindy

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