A Barrel Of Fun

 I love when I get to do a project that is out of the ordinary. So, when a friend called me about giving a makeover to a wine barrel her husband brought home from a North Georgia winery, I was excited. 

I used a chip brush to stain the wood with Dixie Belle Paint Company's No Pain Gel Stain in the color Walnut. I love this stain! It is the consistency of pudding, so it's not as messy as traditional stains... no drips.

It covered beautifully with just one coat.

Did you know that Kramer's Best Antique Improver will remove rust? It does. So I used it to remove the rust on the metal bands around the barrel.

I added Dixie Belle's Silver Gilding Wax to the metal bands to brighten them up & cover any discoloration.

After letting the stain cure for several days, I sealed it with tung oil.

This project really was a barrel of fun!

Linking To:

Ginger Snap Crafts, Chic On a Shoestring,  Simply Sweet Home, The Cottage Market,  Funky Junk Interiors,  Sugar Bee Crafts, Flour Me With Love, The Answer Is Chocolate, Skip To My Lou, The Thrifty Home, Flutter Buster,,  Finding Silver Pennies, Our Hopeful Home, My Thrift Store Addiction, The Painted Hinge, Yesterday On Tuesday, Confessions Of A Plate Addict, My Uncommon Slice Of Suburbia, Creatively Beth, My Hubbard Home, County Road 407, Pieced Pastimes, Southern Sunflowers

Oh Deer, A Chair Makeover

 I was just driving down the road minding my own business when I came upon a yard sale. I vowed to keep going, but I saw this chair...

I thought it would be perfect for practicing upholstery. And, the price was right!

I had the best of intentions, but when the fabric is in good shape, I often opt to paint the upholstery rather than redo it. In this case the fabric on the back of the chair was just faded. And it didn't quite go with the rustic look of the wood with its faux knots & carving to resemble branches.

I painted the back of the chair with the color, Sawmill Gravy, from the Dixie Belle Paint Company. 

I had a plan to add a woodsy style transfer to the back to give the chair a rustic feel & enhance the "branches" rather than compete with them. Sawmill Gravy served as a base for the transfer & would keep the fabric pattern from showing through.

I thought I was going to have to upholster the seat because there was a small tear. But, when I removed the trim & fabric, there was another fabric that was in good shape. So, I painted it with the color Evergreen, also from Dixie Belle.

Keep in mind, that if you paint fabric with a patterned texture, the texture will show through your paint. In this case, the pattern shows, but I like it.

I added new trim using Loctite Flexible Adhesive for fabric.

For the back of the chair, I chose the Fauna transfer from Re*design With Prima.

Before applying the transfer, I covered the trim with painters tape to prevent the transfer from sticking to it.

Because the padded back of the chair was flexible & you have to rub hard to make the transfer stick, the design cracked. The cracking was perfect! It made the back of the chair look & feel like leather.

Once finished, I sealed the chair with Dixie Belle's Best Dang Wax in clear.

This was, yet again, another piece I intended to sell but couldn't part with (even though I have nowhere to put it)!

For more on painting upholstery, go HERE.

Linking To:

Ginger Snap Crafts, Chic On a Shoestring,  Simply Sweet Home, The Cottage Market,  Funky Junk Interiors,  Sugar Bee Crafts, Flour Me With Love, The Answer Is Chocolate, Skip To My Lou, The Thrifty Home, Flutter Buster,,  Finding Silver Pennies, Our Hopeful Home, My Thrift Store Addiction, The Painted Hinge, Yesterday On Tuesday, Confessions Of A Plate Addict, My Uncommon Slice Of Suburbia, Creatively Beth, My Hubbard Home, County Road 407, Pieced Pastimes, Southern Sunflowers