A Mid Century Marriage

My friend, Valrey, a.k.a. the Picker Chic, is my go to person when I'm on the hunt for furniture. If you need something, chances are she has it! I wasn't looking for anything specific, but stopped by just to see what she had. I was so excited to get 2 of these mid century chairs...

The original vinyl seats were in great condition. And I loved the color!

There were are few scratches on the wood and the caning on the back was faded.

I revived the wood and the caning with Dixie Belle Paint Company gel stain in the color, Espresso.

I love this stuff! It's the consistency of pudding. I just dip a rag directly into the can and wipe it on. There are no drips like with traditional stain.

It only took about 10 minutes to revive these beauties!

Valrey also had a little mid century modern table that I thought would go perfectly with the chairs.

The top was scratched and the drawers and sides of the table were missing some veneer...

I used Swamp Mud to fill in the missing veneer, let it dry overnight, then sanded it smooth.

 I painted the drawers with the color Peacock.

Then added black wax to make them match the vinyl seats of the chairs.

I used more of the Espresso Gel Stain to revive the wood and make it match the chairs.

It's a perfect marriage...

And, it's fitting that these pieces are now part of the decor at Mill Creek, a wedding venue in nearby Griffin, Georgia.

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The French Chest

The Dixie Belle Paint Company continues to grow their product line. And, when I purchased this sad French style chest of drawers, I knew that I wanted to use a couple of the new products to help transform it.

I loved the shape of the piece, but it was in horrible shape. Someone had attempted a bad job of trying to decoupage over it and then apparently changed their mind...

One of the new Dixie Belle products, Sea Spray, adds texture. I mixed the Sea Spray with the gorgeous color Peacock...

I didn't cover the entire piece with the mixture. I only wanted texture in certain areas, so I applied it randomly to the chest.

When I used Sea Spray on the shutter I shared recently, it took a long time to dry. I found that the Sea Spray dried really fast by using it outside in the hot Georgia sun!

Once it was dry, I painted over it with the color Kudzu...

I also blended in a little more of the Peacock and another color called Sea Glass.

Once the paint was dry, I sanded the textured areas to reveal the Peacock...

Then I went over the chest with another new Dixie Belle product, VooDoo Gel Stain.

VooDoo Gel Stain is a water based stain so it's easy to clean up and has no odor.

I just squirted a little stain directly onto the chest and smoothed it out with a rag.

I love how she turned out!

She's a French beauty mixed with a little bit of a Southern Belle... she is covered in kudzu after all!

For those of you who may not know, kudzu is an invasive vine that is trying to cover the entire South! It has a pretty purple bloom for a very short period in the summer that smells like grape soda.

 Kudzu is the spawn of the devil!

However, when you marry kudzu with peacock, she's quite lovely!

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The Peacock Porch, Part Two

Last year I shared how I decorated my front porch with a peacock theme. You can see that post HERE.
Here are a few of the pictures from that post...

 This year I had a new addition to my porch.
I bought an old spinning wheel at an estate sale...

It is from around 1800 and came out of a house in New Hampshire and somehow made its way to Georgia. I think I got a pretty good deal on it at $75.
To go with my peacock theme, I used floral wire and added some branches cut from my Christmas tree and then added peacock feathers to the spokes...

I think it made a nice addition to my porch.
There was just one problem... every time it rained I had to run out and move it into the house. It is over 200 years old, after all, and I was afraid it would get ruined!

   It figures that we have had a serious drought until I put something outside that can't get wet!!!

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