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| Farm Girl 2 |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 06:44:29 AM
Go check out my blog and see what a little white paint can do to some thrift store finds. I am changing my decor from drab ugly and mismatched to a "Country Chic" or should I say "Farmgirl Chic"?
I am going to paint all my furniture white and floors red. Some floors are already red.
I love shabby chic but some of it is too frilly and it would run off my dh and I am not finished with him yet. I do love the clean freshness of white.
I am just getting started so check back often as I can only paint so fast!!
Becky
Loving Living Simply!
http://sunnymorningfarm.blogspot.com |
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| elphie0503 |
Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 9:00:27 PM
Dang girl that table turned out NICE! I love love love the red!!!!
Samantha
www.elphie0503.blogspot.com
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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| Farm Girl 2 |
Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 7:02:30 PM
I have finished the living room/dining room, as far as painting goes that is. I still have more decorating to do but I have posted some pics on my blog of the progress that I have made. It is only the begining I am afraid!! I have plenty more rooms to go. I have been thrifting a lot and picking up various pieces and lots of vintage linens too.
Loving Living Simply!
http://sunnymorningfarm.blogspot.com |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jun 25 2008 : 12:41:46 PM
Brand spankin clean and fresh as my mom used to say! Everything is great looking.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 25 2008 : 11:37:50 AM
Becky,
I was looking around your site. Everything is so pretty. You did a good job on your window, and I like the way you painted the furniture.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 25 2008 : 11:27:01 AM
LOVE those curtains! What a great idea!!!
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
| Farm Girl 2 |
Posted - Jun 25 2008 : 11:14:29 AM
Go and look at my new/old kitchen curtains that I hung this morning! This is so good for me having people stop by my blog daily and they are expecting things to be accomplished and updated each day so it keeps me on my toes and off my lazy rear!!!!
Hugs to all!!
Loving Living Simply!
http://sunnymorningfarm.blogspot.com |
| Pearlsnjeans |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 8:47:55 PM
Great Job Becky! I love white - so clean and fresh looking.
Vicki
Farmgirl Sister #120
Farmgirls are elegant |
| Farm Girl 2 |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 6:40:04 PM
Well the white was just put to the test a couple minutes ago. I have the 2 youngest grandbabies here 5 & 7 and they were working a puzzle on the table. The 5 yo came to me and said her brother had spilled a glass of tea on the "new" table. I went to assess the damage and I have enough thick white paint and enough poly on it that it just beaded up!!! LOL I guess it's pretty kid friendly!!!
I am so in the mood to paint all my furniture white but dh put a stop on the entertainment center and my cherry bedroom suite!!!
Loving Living Simply!
http://sunnymorningfarm.blogspot.com |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 6:34:52 PM
becky .. white is such a refreshing shade and i love the boldness of the red floors. have fun with it all.
True Friends * Frannie
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| SusieQue |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 6:09:52 PM
Very Very Pretty! You have done a wonderful job. White is so clean and fresh. Now you have me thinking...What can I paint? really enjoyed your site. |
| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 4:29:08 PM
Lovely!!I am thinking of painting the bottom part of our dining table white. I have all white furniture and then a dark wood/black bottom dining room table. I think I could just sand and paint. Thanks for the ideas and inspiration!!!
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
FARMGIRL #90 |
| electricdunce |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 3:16:56 PM
Very nice! I love all the white. When my son was little we had these teak windsor chairs in our dining room, he managed to break them all by the time he was three. A professional monkey, that one. The summer he'd completed the task of ruining all the chairs I spotted some at a yard sale. They were hideous big thick oak chairs, the sort of things you'd see in the prison's warden's office/ Almost twenty years later they're still in one piece. A couple of summers ago i painted them red. They were instantly transformed into almost acceptable kitchen chairs. Still pretty uglt but the red is great....
I think your idea of white paint on almost every thing is brilliant. It is a pretty painless way of creating major transformations.
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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| Farm Girl 2 |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 2:51:58 PM
Well Jeannie!! About the claw foot table....that came with my chairs around 25 years ago and it is a GREAT table but I really wanted something bigger for the whole family when they are all here, it would only seat 6 comfortably and the new one at least 8 and can squeeze 9 in. I am not sure what to do with it now, it does need to be refinished or painted. Storage is another issue!!
About the energy...I am pooped now!! My dd came over with her children to play and I conned her into helping me with the coffee table and a drop leaf table. We got 1 coat on each of them now and I'll probably finish them after our dinner..(bologna sandwiches sound good hunny?) I now have a small china cabinet and 2 little tables to go and then hit the walls and sewing machine!! It is fun, I feel like I am starting over!!
Samantha, my favorite color is red and my floors and front door are red along with a lot of accents throughout my house!! Go ahead with the furniture in red!!!
Loving Living Simply!
http://sunnymorningfarm.blogspot.com |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 12:07:27 PM
Thw white looks awesome! I am always afraid to paint an old wood piece of furniture....but yours look like a million bucks! Now I will look around the house for something to paint! Hm.....
Are you also painting the ball and claw foot table that shows out the window in one of your photos?
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
| Hideaway Farmgirl |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 11:58:58 AM
Becky,
Ummm, you wish you had MORE energy? I'm tired just thinking about all the work you've done recently! Everything looks just fabulous!
Jo
"Wish I had time to work with herbs all day!" |
| elphie0503 |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 11:56:15 AM
Holy Crow that is pretty...white doesn't survive in my house though...too many dirty finger prints...however I have considered red!!!!
Samantha
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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| Farm Girl 2 |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 11:49:39 AM
Thank you ladies! I just finished painting the new kitchen island and put the new hardware on it. I will finish the living room/dining room first and then the foyer. I will then come back thru the kitchen and that will be most of the painting of furniture. The brunt of the decorating will be done as I find the pieces or get the money for them. LOL I will have to make new curtains and pillows and stuff too!! I just wish I had more energy!
Becky
Loving Living Simply!
http://sunnymorningfarm.blogspot.com |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 09:54:37 AM
I love what you have done! Just beautiful! I love white paint..especially in my kitchen. My table and chairs are due for a new coat of paint..maybe this month I will get it done. I tend to have the "roughed up" white look that works for me in the kitchen. You did a great job!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 09:15:45 AM
Becky....awesome job! It's beautiful! I have been having the same thoughts as you but I've got some outside painting I am doing first as long as it's nice out...I'm out. But come winter....I can't wait! How inspiring you are! I've been painting my white outside doors sort of a pumpkin color and of course KILZ first and then 2-3 coats...so I just do 1 coat a day until their done.
Bravo Girlfriend! Well Done! Keep taking those pictures and showing us and maybe I'll get motivated to take some and post them. Mine are just doors though...nothing as "show stopping" as yours!
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
Farmgirl Sister #226 |
| Farm Girl 2 |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 08:59:39 AM
Thanks so much ladies! I have been kinda spinning my wheels not getting much done today and now I have some fuel for me to get up and get back to painting. I think it helps when you have an audience and you have laid something out there for them to see and they will also see if you don't get it finished!!!! LOL
Jami,
The table already had the finish stripped off the top of the table and the leaf, Thank Goodness. The rest of the table however was covered with polyurethane. I had plans as soon as I saw it to paint the bottom and stain the top and they helped me out there!! I did sand a little on the top only and applied red mahoghany stain and 3 coats of polyurethane to it. I only sanded really lightly between coats. (I have a problem in my head about sanding off what I just put on)
On the bottom I covered it with one good coat of Kilz primer (Latex water based) and then 2 good coats of Olympic (Lowes) "white" High Gloss Enamel latex , water based too. The primer really covered the polyurethane good and then the paint went on really well. I did not sand any on the bottom of the table before priming it. Too lazy!!
The chairs which I have had for about 30 years have fell victim to my paint brush many times over and the last was covered in polyurethane. I slapped on a coat of Kilz primer and then 2 coats of white and they were just fine without sanding too.
The china cabinet I did the same way and primed it first but it then took "4" coats of the white to cover it. I don't know why it was so stubborn. A friend of mine told me that every now and again she will run upon a piece that is difficult to cover and doesn't know what makes it different from the others.
I have moved an old oak chest of drawers, that is beside the table in the pics, to my kitchen to use as an island and I am also painting it white today. Primed so far but I plan to get it done today and get pics up soon. This was mine as a child and has also been every color in the book. Can you tell I like paint!! My dd and her boyfriend stripped the paint off of it about 15 years ago and she used it in her room. I told her yesterday that the time was up and it needed paint!! She took it well after all that hard work they did stripping it for days and days!! hahaha
Hope this helps!
I'm off to pick up the paint brush!!
Loving Living Simply!
http://sunnymorningfarm.blogspot.com |
| Buttercup |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 08:26:42 AM
I love white!! And your pieces came out just lovely!! Wonderful job and thank you so much for sharing!! I LOVE seeing what other farm gals are doing!!
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
| aimeeravae |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 08:20:51 AM
I love your crisp white furniture. It always looks so clean.
Aimee
http://laplantewardklopf.blogspot.com/ Motto To Live By
"Life should NOT be a jouney to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!" |
| Jami |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 07:25:09 AM
Becky, can you share just a bit about the painting process you used? It sure is pretty. Did you do a lot of sanding beforehand or in between coats? I saw you applied several coats of the white and then went over with polyurethane? What kind of paint did you use, oil based or water based? Just curious...I always like to file away these ideas in my brain for my next project.
Jami in WA
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 07:07:12 AM
Wonderful job, Becky!!! That table is phenomenal, and I love the chandelier. Reminds me of the one my mom bought at a junk sale for $10...it took $150 to rework it and make it look new again, but the lighting store man said she had a real find :)
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| ruralfarmgirl |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 07:04:12 AM
Becky, WOW they look awesome!
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
