The Vanity: It's Purple
Eggplant is probably a better description, though in the lighting on the first photo it looks straight up purple.
The primer cured on it and I painted two light coats of chalk paint* on it last night. This morning I fixed a couple of spots that were bugging my OCD and it is ready to wax tonight!
I have some Fiddes & Son wax in light that should give the vanity a nice washed look.
And before you ask, no I will not be distressing this piece before I wax. Just because I used chalk paint and wax polish doesn't mean I have to distress something, mm-kay?
Speaking of distressing things...
The Windows: Throwing it at the Wall and Seeing What Sticks
I've painted all the windows in shades of red, yellow and white, except for the one that wound up the same purple as the vanity because it's special. (No seriously, it has this awesome rabbit ear gear on it that was used to open the window. It's special.)
Right now, I'm working on what each window will look like when it's done. I have some antiquing glaze, some wax, other paint colors. I also have some custom cut pieces of plywood that I'll chalk paint and add to the windows that are missing panes of glass.
In most of the DIY instructions for making note boards from old windows that I've read, they told you to chalk paint the window panes. This made no sense to me for two reasons, 1) I'm just not sure glass is a very good surface to go writing on on a regular basis, may just be me, but it doesn't seem sturdy enough; 2) why waste a good piece of old glass? I am always in favor in preserving the original bits of a piece because it helps keep the story of that piece. In my opinion, if you go painting over the glass then you lose the fact that this piece was once a window and really all you have is a rustic frame that you could have bought at Hobby Lobby for a lot less.
Anyway, rant over. I should be finishing the vanity and windows this week. I still need to
- Wax and buf the vanity
- Cover the inside of the drawers on the vanity (I'm thinking some funky wallpaper is in order for that job.)
- Add hardware to the vanity
- Finish distressing the windows
- Add chalk panels to the windows that need it
- List everything on Etsy!
I'll leave you all with a quote today, from art critic Robert Hughes, several of whom's books you'll find on my bookshelves...somewhere:
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."--Robert Hughes
*I used Webster's chalk powder to turn some of my Behr latex paint into chalk paint, thus having the best of both worlds.
*I used Webster's chalk powder to turn some of my Behr latex paint into chalk paint, thus having the best of both worlds.
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