Hutch Re-do

I've always loved hutches and was so excited when my friend Heather told me she was looking for one and wanted me to paint it for her!  As you know with the Facebook swap sites you have to pretty much just luck up or you will miss the great deals that are on there.  Well, I lucked up one morning and saw this hutch and tagged Heather with it and here it is:)

She got the piece to me in separate parts.  Since Trey was out of town most of the week I just painted the top piece in the house.  The weather was too yucky to try to move it again to my workshop.  She had already decided that she wanted it black and white and by looking at it I thought it would be an easy redo.  "Thought" being key word here:)  The back part of this is paneling...looking back I probably should have primed this first BUT I didn't.  That's a lot of wood to cover.  Both top and bottom took 3 coats of paint!

Now moving on to the bottom part...I started by removing all the hardware and cabinet doors.  The plan was to just spray paint the hardware black.

On any other hardware I just spray painted right after I washed/dusted it off...well, that didn't work this time!!

Uh oh!  So what do I do now???  I had read before to boil hardware to remove old paint so I figured what could it hurt.  The hinges did the same thing.  So into boiling water they go!!

So how long does hardware cook - ha!  I let it boil for about 15 minutes...the hinges came out clean after I wiped them down.  You could tell there was another layer of "something" coated on them...the drawer pulls did not look any different except I was able to get black off.  To make a very long story short, I ended up buying a spray paint with a primer in it and after a few coats it worked!!

Next I reattached the doors and distressed a little around the edges of the drawers and top.  I love how it turned out:)

Love the black top...

Halfway finished...now time to move on to the top piece.  The cabinet doors on the top have beautiful beveled glass it in and I was a nervous wreck afraid I would end up breaking them.  I slightly distressed around the edges and the back paneling.

Changed the hardware on the top piece...

Here it is put all back together again:)

Here's the before/after...

I'm very pleased with the end result...& I've already received a quick text from Heather thanking me again and saying she loves it - YAY!  

Scalloped Top Table Re-Do

I bought 2 of these scalloped top tables off of a Facebook swap site many months ago...I just couldn't pass them up.  They are beautiful, sturdy and part of the Hekman furniture collection (which I didn't know till I got home).  I never intended to paint them the same because they are pretty big and just think they would work perfectly in between two chairs in a sitting area.  I painted one of them many months ago and just finished the other one yesterday!

The top of this one was messed up...so I had to start by sanding the top.

Y'all are going to get tired of hearing about my new knobs that I'm totally obsessed with but after staring at this piece for a while I thought it would look great with just one big chunky fun knob in the middle...so I had to wood fill the original hardware holes.

I LOVE red and have fallen in love with Sherwin Williams "Red Bay".  I still get freaked out every time I start painting a piece red...it always comes out fuchsia!  I actually went back to Sherwin Williams the first time this happened to tell them that they mixed my paint wrong - they assured me that it is red when it drys....they were right:)

That doesn't look RED to me - yikes!

They were right!

AND my favorite part!!

I decided not to distress this piece...I think the color is so pretty and I love the way the dark wood shines through.  I just stained the top, waxed it for protection and she's good to go!

Here's a pic to show the two tables together and how very different they are:)

Hope y'all have an AWESOME weekend!

Refurbished Dresser

I just delivered this dresser to re-Runs today and wanted to share with you its transformation!  It was a huge one.  Put a few hours in this one.

I got this dresser many, many months ago (probably a year) from a sweet friend's mom.  I went to pick it up and it sat in our garage at our other house for months and then made the move with us!

Overall it was in good shape.  The top boards were loose and the drawers needed some more support so they would slide in & out better.  So to begin with I just basically took it apart.

I had already decided that I wanted to paint the body of it antique white and the top black...so I started with one coat of paint on the body and the drawers.

I love all the lines on the drawers...perfect for distressing!!  Luckily Trey & I had picked up some wooden keyhole covers that worked PERFECTLY on these drawers.  We had this piece in mind when we found them at an antique store.

I just painted them black and glued them on with Gorilla Glue.  Then I painted the top black and called in Mr. Whitley to nail the top pieces back together and I have to give him full credit for working on the drawers, too.

I couldn't wait to use my new knobs that I found for a HUGE bargain at Ross.

I love the marble inlay on the top.

AND here is the finished piece.  Entry way, end of the hall, kitchen - this is a beautiful piece for any room.

Hope you like it!  Leave me a comment & let me know what you think:)