Vintage Chairs......

These 5 beauties came from a great little farm auction last fall….

 

To say they needed a bit of work is an understatement….

 

 

The original idea was to paint them white and add some stenciling or some transfers….

 

I just did not like the white…..it was just too….too…..white….which is not like me……I LOVE WHITE…

Next step…stare at 2 of the chairs side by side and think…maybe I should just stain and play up their wood detail???and strip the one I just painted???..but a couple REALLY needed paint….

 

 

Up next…..play with paint colors…………..

 

 

and try some out……

 

 

I decided to try some Annie Sloan Country Grey over the white—and really liked the way the white was showing through…It goes well with the style of chair…..sort of looks like a few old  layers of paint showing through……

 

 

I also liked the Country Grey with the a bit of the natural wood showing through…

 

 

So I decided to wax it and see how it looked…..The left side is waxed—you can see the difference…

  

 

LOVE IT!! You can see a bit of the white, the original stain and some of the wood...and it is a bit crackled....... That is all I have to show for now—because by now my weekend was O V E R!!  But now I know the routine and hopefully the next four will not take 3 days to get to this point…in which over 3 days time I used Websters Chalk Paint Additive to the first 2 coats of American Accents Heirloom White followed by a coat of Miss Mustard Seed’s Ironstone and finished up with ASCP Country Grey…….that’s A LOT of trial and error…..but I think I may have gotten it right in the end…and I may have created a new color—Webster’s American Ironstone Country Grey!

 

And the finished product--