I've had this pine armoire for years. I bought it off e-Bay when I lived in Chicago, and my dad and I headed to the city with his truck to pick it up. I think I paid a little over $200 for it and was SO excited to have it! It's been in Chicago, it's been in Northwest Indiana. Then when I got married, it got moved to Phoenix. All the people who've helped us move hate us. This thing is HEAVY! :) **And yes, that's me in the chair holding our second son who was about a week old in this picture. It's the only good 'before' pic I had of the armoire!**
Now...about 5 years later, I got a wild hair to paint that big ole honkin' thing. I did a lot of research on colors, because I didn't want to have to paint it twice. I ended up going with Sherwin Williams "Creamy" as the color. It's a GREAT soft white. Not too white, not too off-white. Here's how it turned out:
Ignore the upside down chairs in the left corner of the picture. Those are on Craigslist right now...and I'll get to my new chairs next! :) Didn't it turn out GREAT! It totally opened up the room and brightened it up! I still have to paint the bun feet -- but I need my husband to help me lift it so I can put a piece of wood under them before I tackle that. Like I said, it's HEAVY. And that's an understatement. So, they may not get done for quite a while. HA!
Next, my dining room chairs. Here's the best picture I could find of the table. It was right after we moved in...so the dining room wasn't finished and if you follow my blog, you've seen the new hutch that I got and painted a gray-blue. It's gorgeous. But anyway...on to the table and chairs:
I got this set off CL for $250. But I wanted a switch-up. I got new chairs (that of course, I bought off Craigslist). Here's a before shot of one of them:
I LOVED the style. I HATED the color. So, nothin' that a few cans of spray paint can't fix! I bought Rust-Oleum spray paint at Home Depot -- and the color is "Heirloom White" in a satin finish. It's a pretty good match to the Sherwin Williams "Creamy" color that I painted the living room armoire. Here's how they turned out:
Can you BELIEVE it? They look like chairs that came from Pottery Barn!! Yippee!! Just the look I was going for. :) Then....they looked funny at my table. So I flipped it upside down and took the legs off. I sprayed them 'Heirloom White' as well...and painted the skirt of the table 'Creamy'. A wonderful match -- and SO easy! With the shape of the table legs, I didn't want to have to paint it by hand with a brush. TOO much work for this mama! And this is how the whole set looks now:
SWOON!!!!!! :) I'm FINALLY happy with my living and dining room! Now...what's the next project? HA HA!

3 comments:
looks great! i love seeing all the things you do and hope that one day it will give me the motivation to start doing some re-decorating as well.
Thanks Lisa!!! :) I LOVE doing it! Seems like I ALWAYS have a project going on over here. Some of them take a while to do...but I go at it during nap and bed time for the kids! :)
Very nice! You did a great job painting the table and chairs!
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