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Before & After: DIY Refresh

July 10, 2014 2 Comments

This week’s reader submission is a DIY refresh that gives a contemporary twist to a mid century modern nightstand. This project was submitted by Reeves, a 19 year old college student and blogger over at The Weathered Door. Reeves repurposes and refinishes her fab vintage finds in Seattle, Washington. We love the way she plays with paint and color on her projects, especially using geometric designs.

Reeves refreshed a mid century modern nightstand and by using geometric designs and modern color combinations.

Here is a before shot of the nightstand.

persimmon and grey geometric nightstand before WD-1

Take it away, Reeves!

“This little nightstand came from goodwill. It has a cute mid century modern shape, but it also had a laminate top. Lately I’ve been drawn to everything orange. After choosing orange as the accent, I picked white for contrast and a dark grey as the third color. Instead of using one of those 3 colors for the rest of the nightstand, I went with light grey. It’s not as heavy, but still pares well with other colors. I think my favorite part is that fact that the original wood is part of the design.”

“I started with the drawer – sanding with 320 grit sandpaper and then adding the design. Sharp lines are key to making the design look nice and pop. I worked by color on this starting with orange, then dark grey, and then white. For colors I used all General Finishes Milk Paint colors. The orange is Persimmon, the grey is Queenstown Gray and the white is Snow White. I also used their high performance poly in satin to seal the whole piece when it was done.”

“For the frame of the nightstand I sanded it will 150 grit sandpaper and then filled and glued a couple things before painting. I did sand and prime the laminate top with Zinsser’s Cover Stain primer to help with adhesion. It just took 2 coats with a poly brush and a quick sanding to even it out. For paint I used General Finishes Seagull Grey on the frame of the nightstand. It took 3 coats to get full coverage, and once it cured I sealed it with satin poly.”

Annnd here is her finished product!

persimmon and grey geometric nightstand WD-7

persimmon and grey geometric nightstand WD-8

persimmon and grey geometric nightstand WD-11

To see more of Reeves’s designs and read about her process, check out her blog!

To purchase paint, brushes and other DIY supplies – visit our online shop or come see us in person at our retail store, located at 410 S Maple Ave in Falls Church, VA.

Submit your project and it might be featured on our blog! You can use our handy submission form here – be sure to have before and after photos ready.

Filed Under: Colorful Monday, Furniture Transformation, The Shop Tagged With: DIY Falls Church, diy furniture refresh, DIY furniture rehab, Mid Century Modern Design, milk paint, northern virginia vintage furniture, washington dc furniture

DIY Wall Mural Tutorial

June 19, 2014 Leave a Comment

This week’s guest post is from Andrea, a mommy and blogger over at her blog The Everyday Soiree. Andrea’s blog is filled with DIY projects, home decor and fashion ideas, sprinkled with tales of motherhoods. Today she is sharing a how-to DIY wall mural! She painted this mural for her son’s nursery – and even the least artistically-inclined can accomplish this mural.

Take it away, Andrea!

After seeing a couple amazing paint by number murals, I decided I would love to take on a similar project for my sons room. Here is my how-to!

1. I printed off my image a drew a graph on it.  I then drew a corresponding graph on the wall. Of course easier than graphing it out would be to project your image.  If you are someone with absolutely no artistic skill, I think you could still successfully do this by projecting your image and getting someone at the art supply store to help you with paint colors and mixing.

Photo Sep 30, 2 59 00 PM Photo Sep 30, 2 58 57 PM2. After the graph was drawn I went square by square drawing in the image. When you are drawing in each square, it’s best to not think about your entire image, but just see the specific shapes that are in that square. (I say square, they are really rectangles … but you get it).

Photo Sep 30, 2 59 04 PM3.  I attempted to actually number my colors, but got sick of it pretty fast and decided to just eye it. However, if you are a person who will be nit-picky about your colors being an exact match, I suggest numbering them and doing all the whites at one time, blues at one time, etc. A useful thing would be saving your mixed paint in some kind of tupperware.  That way if you have to leave the project in the middle of painting, you wont have to mix the color again to exactly match what you have already done.

Photo Sep 30, 2 59 02 PM kids-room-mural4. I spent a lot of time painting over colors I had already painted. Just because I didn’t like the way it looked once on the wall.  You can see an example below in the shadowed sails. I went from a light purplish pink (which was more true to the original image) to a dark grey-ish purple.

Photo Sep 30, 2 58 53 PM mural-childrens-room

I worked on this project over a few months and it probably took me around 20-30 hours to complete. The length of time it will take to complete depends on the detail of your image and how much time you spend playing with the colors.

Here is the finished product!

kids mural kids room mural paint by number mural

Thank you for sharing Andrea! For more of Andrea’s DIY projects – head over to her blog.

Do you have a fab project you’d like to share? Email us with photos press@stylishpatina.com.

You could easily paint this mural with chalk paint – head over to our online shop to order!

Filed Under: Chalk Paint®, Colorful Monday, Furniture Transformation, Stylish Patina Living Tagged With: chalk paint maryland, Chalk Paint Northern Virginia, chalk paint washington dc, DIY mural, northern virginia vintage furniture, wall mural, washington dc furniture

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Welcome to Stylish Patina, my name is Kelly the owner + designer. I live in my home town of Falls Church, Virginia right outside of Washington, D.C. I have an addiction to transforming vintage furniture into something modern + beautiful. I am a wife and mom of three little kiddos. We have two retails shops in Virginia, stop in and say hi or follow along on our blog.

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