What a gorgeous day. It's cool, no humidity and sunny. It's a great day to pull out all your garage sale finds and paint away the day. The decor in both my home and studio is white, so for a little color and fun, I love to paint old furniture. There always has to be a little pink in the color of paints I select because I love to photograph my hand painted pillows and crazy tables together. Most of my pillows have a splash of pink.
I got this little dressing table for free at a fair. It has been through many transitions since I've owned it. I've given it a shabby chic finish with frocked tulle but now, it is a little patterned creation just because I felt like it. It will change again I'm sure during the next
boredom cycle.
This old dresser was on a curb waiting for the trash men. It just seemed ashamed to throw it away. I cut off the legs because they were in rough shape and just painted away one afternoon. I now use my painted dresser on my sun porch to hold my small garden tools and gloves and when people come for dinner, and we eat on the porch, I use it as a
buffet to hold the salads.
I fell in love with the legs on this little table in a second hand shop. The table top is warped but no matter. When I use it as my desk in my studio, all the pencils and pens roll to the middle. It makes it easy to find them.
After I finish painting and I'm satisfied with the results, I seal it with a couple of thin clear coats of urethane. Eazy peazy !!! Just make sure the wind is not blowing that day you add the urethane or the flying insects could add some texture to your creation as well.
I love painting little flowers with plaids, stripes and polka dots. The busier, the better. And when I want to try something new in painted furniture, I just sell these on my studio tours.
Find a funky piece of furniture on your next garage sale day and have some fun. You know my motto .... why should any inanimate object last longer than you do???? You can't make a mistake. Who cares??
Enjoy the day!!
Happy Canada Day and July 4th to all my North American friends.
13 comments:
Meg I just love what you did with that old furniture! A few years ago I did something similar with a teacher's little table that was being thrown out at a local school. I will have to post pictures of it this week and you can have a look.
Happy Painting!
Tina xo
Darling collection...I love the mix of plaids and flowers and the pinks are a great 'signature'...
I always learn from you...my painted furniture has been with me for a long time and still seems rather precious...I love your spunkiness of repainting just for the fun of it!!
Oh Tina, I can't wait to see your painted table. And Iona, I really understand loving something that you have painted and not wanting to change it. I'm that way about some things...... but then I love "change" too. Change makes my heart beat a little faster and sometimes that thing in your life that you want to stay the same, makes you heart feel cozy and warm.
BEAUTIFUL work Meg ! I love your painted furniture
That's what I do too > my whole house is tag sale finds that I painted
and I used to paint furniture for shops [ but all those shops are gone now ] It makes me sad .
BUT
I was so HAPPY today because it was cooler here too
and .... OH .... Meg .... I know you still miss your kitty
will you get another kitty friend now ?
you're so talented! i love the detail and the colour, oh i wish i had the inclination to do what you do Meg! Hx
I will have to go back and look at your pictures of your studio to try to spot some of these gems in their "natural habitat".
I am now longing for those old dressers and tables that I donated to the Goodwill and such over the years so I could let loose some creative juices! I had never thought of furniture as a canvas until now.
However, you have a unique flair and talent for mixing patterns and colours that makes these pieces, and all of your work so individual and so beautiful.
Thanks for sharing these with us!
oh I just love your funky designs....how whimsical and fun!
and the fact that the pencils roll to the center of the warped table...that's classic! i love that!
thanks for sharing your thrify finds....terrific!!!!
ciao bella
creative carmelina
Beautiful! Happy Canada Day!
Thank all of you for your comments. It sounds like some of you have painted furniture as well. If you would like to send me pictures of your creations, I would love to post them on my blog. It would be fun to share some ideas.
Meg
Oh, my gosh, that furniture is beautiful! Makes my whole house of furniture look so boring! Very talented, Miss Meg...but I knew that already! :)
Hi Meg....I love the colours and whimsical nature of your painting.I'm not sure why, but it reminds me of Cirque du Soliel. You could do some very cool 'props' for the. I just love your creativity.
Oh Meg, you clever little girl...
wow I've just seen your painted table took my breath away so beautiful, I'm a painter of furniture myself if I could go on to do something as brilliant as that....wow again just so amazing I'm gonna keep calling back ~ thankyou ~ Merritt x
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