From Vegas to Sweden

Hi everyone, Well its that time again Make it for Monday. I love Mondays now because of this.

How do you go from Vegas to Sweden, its all in the paint, baby. I started off with this rather Vegas like chair, black with gold accents. I'm sure it was pretty at one point (Maybe 1984????). I do however see the potential in it, the Rococo line. So I decided to go for it.

I had this.......

Yummy gold details (yuck!!!!)
I wanted this, a beautiful Swedish Rococo chair......

I got this, very close without the price tag of a real antique. I primed, painted (Its a misty Swedish green I had color matched), distressed and glazed. The seat bottom is a fabric from JoAnn Fabrics that had a Swedish feel. I love it and I have one more to go, then I can have my front porch sitting area Swedish style. After all this is The Swedish Room.

No more gold detail Yaaaaa!!!

For more Marvelous Make It For Monday Makeovers go see Cindy at http://cottageinstincts.blogspot.com/

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French Love At The Room

Hi everyone. Thanks for all the kinds words for my last post. I really appreciated it. Ok we are moving on with the fun. Ok I decided to do something difficult for me, but I love a challenge. I recovered a Louis side chair in white burlap. I didn't realise that burlap is so thin, so I doubled it up so the staples would go into the fabric and stay. Trust me it took a few tries, but I finally caught the hang of it. Next was double welting (I found mine at Hancock, I went to JoAnns and they don't sell it anymore). This was really hard trying to stitch it and making sure it was straight. This project took a few days (because I just had to walk away a few times), but I bucked up and finished. BTW the frames were yellow gold (Yuk!), so I distressed them and put some dark wax on them to give them an aged look. I love them, take a look......

As you can see green drapery fabric and yellow gold frames...
Now with burlap and antiqued frames, I love them!!!
Look double welting (I might wait to do this again).
French Love...

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Make It For Monday

Hi everyone. I had so much fun at the White Wednesday party, I decided to do Make it for Monday. Thank you Cindy @ Cottage Instincts for hosting this great party (I'll leave you a comment when I'm done).

Ok, this is my project. This is a chair I made a while back, but I thought it would be a good project for here. I wish I had a before pic, this chair started out as a Queen Anne chair (you know the ones, they are everywhere, I got it for $5.00). I wanted it to have a French flare.

I started by taking the chair half way apart, and adding old molding I had laying around.
In this pic it shows the new top I put on the chair.
I added a new center back piece (I can't remember the name right now) it was just a piece of wood cut to size, and some molding.
I added molding around the skirt of the chair, added some metal leaves to the legs, I had them in a junk box.
This is the back of the chair, more molding, wood pieces, and metals leaves.

I then sponged on some silver paint, glazed it, and then polyed it.
Finally I recently added this seat cover (yes I made the cover also). There it is a French style, silvered chair on the cheap. For more great projects go to:
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See you there. See everyone next time........