Furniture Fun...or Is It?

I'm also not an expert at refinishing furniture, but hey, I gave it a go. A "client" needed her raw wooded kitchen hutch finished and I volunteered for the job. I'm not completely ignorant when it comes to wood. I come from a line of wood workers, namely my dad, plus I took a wood working class for my degree. She wanted an antiqued look using a black and spanish red oil based paint. No problem I said. It shouldn't take more than a few hours. I primed it. Painted it black. So far so good, then red. Now time for the sanding. I've never used oil based paint before. This project came with a learning curve. Now I know your just can 'sand' oil based paint. You have to bust out the 60 grit with your sander and use your entire body weight to get through the stuff! I also pulled out the chisel. Then I had to go back over parts with the black, then the red and do some wipe away action with some finishing touches with a dry brush. All in all it took about 10hrs to do. I think it turned out pretty darn good, and now I know, oil paint is the devil.

Round Top

I believe this is a good way to start out a blog. I drag my husband to Round Top, TX every time the antique show appears. He obliges me with this trip in hopes for some good coin finds for him and some cheap and inspirational finds for me. We meet up with my mom and step dad, because lets face it, now they're hooked. This trip was incredibly rainy and stormy, which is completely awesome in my book. It was muddy and slippery and completely wonderful. I came away with some good finds, one in particular, a $45 antique hutch. Rainy day sale. Weather its "antique" or just really well used. I don't mind. It screamed Sandi and now it resides in my kitchen waiting to be filled with other good finds.