Garage Projects Updates

I know it's been over a week since my last post and I don't really have anything newly finished for you all, but I do have some updates.So there's that, I guess.

End Table:

I showed you all this guy last week in my post--Loot and Such:

Well, here is what it looks like  after a good sanding and a couple coats of paint:

I actually used chalk paint on this...sorta. It's technically Behr paint in Mined Coal with Webster's Chalk Powder and water added to it to make it "chalk paint". 

I choose this form of chalk paint rather than just buying regular chalk paint for two reasons: 1) I rarely use chalk paint, so while it's nice to have the option to work with it I don't want to have a bunch of barely used quarts of chalk paint sitting around my garage...it's already cluttered enough; 2) i am still, basically, using latex paint which is really my preferred paint. *

Vanity:

I know that it has been over a month, but remember when I showed you this project? Yeah...me neither. 

And then I showed you these pictures? Again, me neither.

After deciding that I didn't like the particular shade of purple above and making a couple of mistakes, I got to strip all the paint off the piece and start over...exciting. Here's how it looks currently:

As you can see, it's now a grey-purple over the previous eggplant shade. I still have a decent amount of work to do on the vanity, including a last coat of paint, top coats, between coats sanding, lining the drawers and refinishing this great vintage hardware that I found on eBay:

There will be a lengthy blog post on the vanity and all that went into it when I finish it, but because that is about another week out I thought it was a good idea to post an update. 

Upcoming Projects:

Last weekend I received a shipment of new items. (AKA my parents visited and brought me a couple of things that I couldn't fit in the mustang the weekend before.) 

Mom sent this Bombay chest from the piano room at home. The style of the piece goes well in the room, but the colors and the hand-painted flowers are too traditional for the room, which skews toward the eclectic. 

Mom and I are thinking it needs to painted red, then black and distressed to show some of the red through on the details. Mom thinks it needs crystal knobs. (It needs knobs of some style, the original ones fell off in transportation.) This is the red and black combo that I'm thinking about:

I also got a bookcase that my family friend Stan wants to use to store clothes and such for his grandson. (The bookcase looks a lot bigger in the picture than it really is. It's probably only about four feet tall, not the eight feet it looks below. Also, the wood veneer is in a lot worse shape than this picture lets on.)

I am going to do it in a yellow color called Buttered Sweet Corn, which I'm pretty sure is about the coolest name for a yellow ever. 

I'm also going to attempt to make some decorative knobs out of John Deere Miniature toys from Orscheln's...we'll see how it goes. I found some pretty ceramic knobs with tractors painted on them for backup. 

Okay folks, that's it for now. Be good and don't hurt yourselves!

*The reasons for this are a whole other blog post that I may eventually get to.