I love green and I love beautiful and easy furniture makeovers. Today I am going to share how to antique your furniture using paint, stain and wax. You are going to see how easy it is to give your old furniture a new look. Here is it our Greenlicious End table Tutorial.
The weather has not helped with my kitchen makeover. I hate being cold so my visits to the garage to continue painting my cabinets have slowed down dramatically this week. However yesterday I worked on some of the accessories for our kitchen, until this point I have showed you all the neutrals but today I am sharing with you my accent color: GREEN.
The inspiration behind it came from this awesome 7-up crate that I found at my favorite local store. Almost every Thursday my sweet friend Wanda Ann and I go visit there and look for little treasures. { I love you girl! } As soon as I saw these 1950 bottles and crate my heart stopped. I knew this was it!
My kitchen is connected to an open family room, so it is like one BIG space. This is the accent piece that brings both areas together: my new old greenlicious end-table.
I am in love!
I had this table forever. I bought it years ago for $5.00…
SHUT the FRONT DOOR!
The poor thing has been abused since that day. This is how it used to look.
So SAD!
TUTORIAL
The materials you should use for painting furniture will depend on the type of finish and style that you want your furniture to have. I knew I was going to distress this piece so a good brush and a regular dollar store roller was good enough.
1
Clean It UP!
Don’t skip the prep work… it is as important as the painting part.
2
Start Painting!
I like to use the roller for the larger areas and the brush for the legs and the hard to reach places.
I used Olympic One paint for this project.
I LOVE that this paint has the primer included.
I came up with my own color but I found for you an almost identical one made by Valspar.
The name is: Cliveden Pasture 6001-6C
Check out also Woodlawn Promised Land 5007-6C by Valspar.
This last one is a little deeper but still gorgeous.
3
Sand and antique.
How much you sand is up to you and your taste.
After the sanding was done I used Valspar Antiquing Glaze and with a rag I cover the table with it.
To finish with a damp cloth I removed part of the glaze until it looked pefect to me.
That was it!
Then I dressed our little table up and even Mimi changed her mind…
She doesn’t think that it looks like “poopie green” anymore 😉
What do you think?
Love it!
Here are some other home decor ideas that I love!
DIY Farmhouse Home Decor – Click HERE
How to Paint Laminated – Wood Veneer Furniture – Click HERE
Besos!
Desirée.
What a beautiful transformation! Thank you for sharing. I am going to search some garage sales, you have inspired me!
I’m a green person and I find that green is hard to find. So that you for this info. Love your painted table! My fav. green to date is CeCe Caldwell’s Michigan Pine. Check it out on my blog and facebook!
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That has to be the most perfect piece of green furniture I have ever seen –
I cannot get green right!!!
Love love love it –
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Nice! I have a table like this that I’d love to do something similar with. I always thought I’d have to strip the table of it’s finish first… but apparently you don’t have to??
Dana,
Make sure to use a primer first and you’ll be find!
GORGEOUS!!! I <3 green!!! is glaze different than stain, can you tell me?
You can use stain as well. I like to work with a water base stain instead of an oil one.
I hope this helps!
This is so beautiful – what a color!!! I’m sharing this on my facebook page NOW! ~Lori
So sweet of you!
Thank you so much!
Turned out fabulous! Can’t wait for yardsale season so I can pick up some fab furniture finds for $5! Way to go.
Desiree – you’ve got the magic touch! I LOVE the table…and I wasn’t totally sold on the green until I saw that beautiful end result…I’m in love!!
I featured this on my blog today:
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And I pinned it too!
http://pinterest.com/christinasadven/20-below-features/
Your table looks beautiful. I’m a new follower and am looking through your projects on your sidebar and I just love all of them. Stop by and visit if you get a chance.
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LOVE the table and LOVE that green!!! I have the hardest time making my distressing look good…try to be sporadic, etc and it just is weird. Can’t wait to see more of your kitchen!