Beautiful Bedroom Set~painted in my house!! and so much more...

My shop is busting at the seams with all the inventory

I have been buying for both my Malden and Boston shops...

I will fill you in on Boston next time around~so that brings me to

painting custom work in my own home! I have heard once you

start doing this you can never reclaim your house! But I will say it

was very efficient and I had my two days off to get set up and create

a workable system. I laid out a huge plastic drop cloth over

the entire room, and tossed my coffee table onto the couch.

Here is how it looked when we brought in all the pieces...yikes!

In the dining room I laid out the flat pieces like the bed

and the mirror~recognize my chandy?

Temperature controlled with air conditioning was great as it

makes sure the paint and wax will dry properly in the summer heat and humidity.

This bedroom set is really terrific looking with old world lines.

My client, Suzanne, inherited this

set from her grandmother and we updated it with an

elegant paint job in Annie Sloan™ French Linen with a decorative finish

of dry brushing over the French Linen using a 50/50 mix with FL and

Old White Chalk Paint™. It came out stunning, and Mr. Maison Decor

must have walked into the living room at least six times and told me

how beautiful he thought it looked! That was a record for a response!!

We painted the hardware as well~I like to saturate the dry brushing

on the edges of the moldings and the carved details.

Not everyone is so lucky to inherit such pretty furniture!

The ladies dresser~

That frenchy scrolled detail just came to life with the Chalk Paint.

The headboard had a lovely shell motif as did the dresser mirror~

After two coats of French Linen and the dry brushing I waited a day to start the waxing.

You can see there is a lot of waxing to be done, and using the Ultimate Wax Brush ($34.98)

makes the job so much quicker. It also leaves the wax on the brush,

so you don't waste it as you do when applying with a cloth.

I am happy to tell you that these will be in my online shop as of today~

as I have had so many people interested in this particular brush.

Tips on cleaning the brush~use Dawn dish washing detergent

when you are ready to retire your brush from its waxing duties.

While I am in the middle of waxing projects, I keep my

Ultimate Wax Brush in a non-latex surgical glove and it

keeps it nice and moist. Any wax brush purchase online will include

one of these gloves for easy storage during use.

Back to the bedroom set~the dry brushing just makes the whole

appearance of the set more sophisticated and elegant and totally

jacks up the appeal! I will do a tutorial on dry brushing in the future.

Suzanne also got this lamp from her grandmother. It will be

getting a bit of a makeover as well~now please don't write

and tell me we will ruin this piece!! Its going to be gorgeous!

Listen to this strange thing that happened today! I had my picker Paul drop by
with some furniture. I bought a couple of dressers from him
and then showed him pics on my iPad of the set I painted above.
He told me could get me a similar set....I said really?
He went to check it out and sent me these
photos, and it is the exact same set!! He looked in the drawers
and it is made by the same furniture company.

The details and hardware are identical!!
Isn't life strange like that? So I bought it and I will be getting it
tomorrow and will finish it for the Boston store!