Remember when….

Remember when we found this end table at DI?  Well it has gone from this…

to this brown….

and now to this black…and it resides in Layton now.

Johnny Closet

This johnny closet was an oak color and the lady wanted it done in black.  We found a matte crayon black and painted it.  She is going to put different knobs on the doors when she gets it installed.  I think it turned out pretty cool.

Brown Desk

SOLD!!!!!

This desk has a new home in Brigham City.

This desk sold the day we brought it home.  It was a well used desk and needed much repair work on it.  After getting all the repairs done on it, Dick painted it a chocolate brown then we glazed it in black.  This is going to be a “man desk” at it’s new home.

The couple that bought this desk had found two night stands that they wanted him to refinish.  They were done in the same color and black glazing.  There were detail markings on the stands and the glazing just really brought them out.  To bad they picked them up before I got the pictures of them.

Sand Bench

We found an adorable head/foot board and made this bench.  It turned out soooo cute and right now it is sitting in my bedroom making a cozy place to watch tv.

The Mr. built the box and seat and put the bench together.  He primed it in chocolate brown and put the tape where he wanted the distressing to show (pretty clever idea he came up with).

Next step was to paint the bench in a sand color.  He then remove the tape so the chocolate would show through at the desired spots.

LOVE..LOVE…this bench!!!!

This bench is waiting to find a new home.

Red Bench

SOLD

!!!!!!!This bench now has a new home in Kaysville, Utah!!!!!

We went to our fav store and purchased this beauty.  I knew immediately that this would be my RED bench.  I had a vision and knew exactly what it was going to end up looking like.  Dick built the bench and then painted it Awning Red with his new paint gun that he got for his birthday.  He sure has learned how to make his painting perfect with it.

We got to this point and began to do the black glazing and lo and behold the bench was almost ruined.  We switched glazing compounds to a Home Depot brand, Behr, which was the biggest error of all.  The dry time is to short and would dry before getting it rubbed off. Dick had to repaint the bench in the area that had been glazed and then another trip to Ogden to Lowe’s to get the right product, Valspar.

We lightly distressed this bench instead of the heavy distressing that was done on the previous benches.  With an new batch of black glazing mixed up, we started the process of glazing our beautiful red bench.  The colors just change once the glazing process is started.

This bench is waiting for a new home.  While it waits, I get to enjoy it in my home.

Desk Delight….

SOLD!!!!

THIS DESK NOW BELONGS TO OUR NEIGHBORS.  THEY BOUGHT IT BEFORE IT WAS STARTED AND WERE ABLE TO CHOOSE THE COLORS. 

I did not get a before picture of this desk, but it was a dark brown.  The desk had great character and some rather unique hardware that attracted Dick to it.  He fell in LOVE with it and had a vision in mind before we left DI’s.

We have new neighbors and they found out we restored furniture and wanted something for the bedroom or bathroom for her to use as a makeup vanity.  When she seen the ugly brown color, she too had a vision and wanted the desk to serve as her vanity.  

The desk was painted sand and lightly distressed then glazed with a chocolate brown.  The hardware was spray painted oil rubbed bronze.

I am so taken with this side of the desk and the marble look that the glaze made.  I found that it is all in how it is rubbed off.  I am getting more relaxed with the glazing part.