I was introduced to Pinterest by my daughter and was in
heaven. I was having fun
seeing what other people did for fun, and it was a wonderful new world to
explore. I seemed to zero in on how people were painting old dented and scratched furniture
into beautiful awesome furniture. I came across this beautiful blue dresser at Heartwood Roses and decided I wanted to try to do
this. I found a local Annie Sloan Chalk Paint stockist and bought the chalk paint that I had read so much about. I went to my local salvation
army and found this well made chest on chest. It was half price furniture day and I quickly snapped it up
for around 50.00. I have no idea if
that was a good price or not but I was excited to try this chalk
paint on something. These are some before pictures of my first attempt at painting furniture with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.
I had never stripped anything before and had trouble with the
stripper drying too quickly. I didn’t have a heat gun like Connie and being a newby I thought I might should take another route. I would not recommend what
I used. I have since found a
better and much easier stripper.
The instructions given on the Heartwood Roses blog were excellent and I had no trouble
following along. Mine didn’t turn
out quite as beautiful as Connie’s but I loved the results and that is all
that mattered.
After stripping the top, here is what I used to complete the
rest of the project.
I pretty much followed Connie’s instructions exactly so I
will not go into the details of what I did here. I will just post a few pictures of the process. Remember, I am a newby and the pictures are only taken with an iphone
4s, with not much thought behind lighting. Connie’s pictures are awesome.
Here is the finished dresser
I am hooked now, so I am off to find more furniture to paint!
