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!

 And my latest favorite thing to do is use my French Gilding waxes~

here I am gilding this old mirror with King Gold.

 This is the before of the mirror.  Slight gold on the inner 

rounded molding, plain greyish plaster on the scrollwork on the framework.

 This gilding wax is soooo fabulous~!

 I will continue to share its virtues with you.

It is also a product that can be found in my online store for purchase.

 It came out elegant and authentic~and look in the mirror to see what we are doing here at Maison Decor.

I shot this right before we left work...

 I was with Colin and snapped him checking his phone~so he had to laugh. 

They say America runs on Dunkins....and I will say yesterday

 I had myself a nice big iced coffee to give me boost to continue 

pumping out my workload.  Another mora in Cream and Old White is being worked on 

for a custom order...I still had to go home and continue the 

bedroom set, and on top of all that I finally got the lease for Boston!!! 

So stay tuned for more continuing shop adventures.  

My online store is at www.shopmaisondecor.com

The latest in my schedule is an Advanced Class, 

An Annie Sloan Shop Apprentice Day for big kids ages 11-16, 

and another Introductory Techniques workshop. 

See my Maison Decor link for that right here.

Details about the Advanced Techniques class~Wednesday evening August 15th~

 We will create a large Master Board that will encompass

 many beautiful techniques, like metal leaf, decoupage, romantic overlay

 two color stencils, gilding waxes, craqueleur, and more~

Lastly I am considering dumping all my advertising...can I ask you if you find

it bothersome?  I do get a nice paycheck from these ads that help

me with my financial situation, but would you all LOVE it if I got rid of the ads?