Fancy and Rustic finishes with Milk Paint and Chalk Paint™ projects

 Its official~I really do love Chalk Paint™. 

The more I use it, the more things I seem to be able to 

do with it, and it turns me on!! 

This french desk is the perfect example~

Here is the photo my picker sent me~I loved it!

(not the wooden knobs though of course)

 Colin painted it in two coats of Old Ochre Chalk Paint™~

Then I painted the drawers in Versailles.

Old Ochre is a great color, like a bone white. 

 Then Colin crackled the top surface~

And kept the mood light (as is his custom and style)

 Then I did a wash of Versailles across the top of the desk.

 At this stage it looked like this~

 We planned to add a wash of Versailles in the leg detail area too.

Colin added a coat of dark wax on top of the desk top

 over the clear wax to bring out the crackled details.

 Brush it on and around and then rub it off...done.

 Now for the last step~!!!

 I applied King Gold Gilding Wax along the edges for a luxe look.

 Boy, does it deliver!!

We hit the edges of the hardware too.

 This desk is so elegant now...I just have to get some

 hardware for the center draw and it will be finished.

 The other fun project we worked on today was this

 console table headed for Boston Maison Decor.

We decided to Mustard Seed it!!!! Woo hoo!~

Its going to go with the beat character of the table and 

I hope it peels off and self distresses like nobodies business!!

 Come on kids...lets go in the back room and 

 mix up some Mustard Seed...

that's Milk Paint to all of you who don't know.

 Justin said its like pancake batter, and hes right...its weird stuff!

Its fun stuff!! 

Its super exciting stuff!! 

 Then they started to lay on the milk paint...the color is Ironstone. 

 Colin tried some too...its soupy and a lot different than Chalk Paint™.

 Its dribbles and I find that is the thing I keep after...

otherwise you can see a runny look,

and I don't want that...

 Just slappin' it on...we want rustic! 

We want chippy delight!

 I mixed about a third of a bag and look

 how much I still have left...it goes pretty far.

It has no shelf life, so you mix up

 what you are going to use and thats it.

 The console table is taking on that Gustavian look that I love~

 It started self distressing right away! Well, right as soon as it started to dry.

Still drying and then I will take off all the 
flaking with a sanding sponge.

 And this was the result~

 A lot of chipping, you cannot predict where it will self distress.

 It chipped and flaked off pretty good.

 Its a very cool look~
So that's the latest on my projects that I am sharing...

I actually have two others that I am holding the lid on

 and will share later as we have our pants on fire running into

 Boston and getting the store all set up!

Its SUPER exciting and NERVE wracking! 

I plan to have a big margarita tonight!! 

Have a great weekend everybody!