Some wonderful friends of ours gave us a white side table. It had a lot of ware, and my daughters added some "nice" crayon artwork to it, so I knew it needed an makeover. I decided to lightly sand down the whole table because there was a high gloss on it, and it had some imperfections that needed to be sanded out (it took about 10 minutes). I decided to paint the table a mint color and do gold accents. I used my Home Right Finish Max Fine Finish Sprayer to make my project go so much faster for the mint! It took 2 coats of flax latex paint of course mixed with BB Frosch chalk paint powder (I ended up using 1 cup of paint, so 1/4 container of powder) and I sealed it in with BB Frosch premium clear wax.For the gold in the middle and on the bottom of the table, I sprayed Kryolon champagne spray paint into the lid of the can and then brushed it on using a foam brush. After that dried, I painted a coat of Elegant Finish metallic finish champagne gold paint to give it a more smooth metallic finish. And ta-dah, beautiful gold accents.My daughter picked out the cute new rose pull from Hobby Lobby. She is so excited to have a "new" table in her room, and insisted on posing for a picture with it. :)
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I was given this dresser in beautiful shape and knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. My daughters were in need of a new dresser and this piece painted up beautifully! I decided to do the main part of the dresser a classy cream color (paint color: toasted marshmallow) with light distressing just on the edges to bring out the features of the dresser. For the top I sanded it down so I could do a faux stain top. Have I ever mentioned how much I like faux stain? SO much easier, less messy, less smelly and FAR time consuming. (faux stain tutorial in the tutorial tab on this blog) I love how beautifully the faux stain top turned out and it looks just like real stain! Here's the final product of the dresser. (Note I painted this about a year ago and it is still holding up wonderfully, and it's even in a kids room.)If my house is anything like yours, homework is a chore! My 7 year old son thinks 10 min of math homework a night is awful. :) I had been keeping my eye out for some sort of desk that would be deemed the homework desk, to hopefully make it all a little bit more exciting & enjoyable. I ended up with an old, very loved (full of stickers and marker) from an online consignment for $10. I also bought a $10 chair from Target to go with the desk. I decided to refinish the desk and chair with a combination of products:(Note the affordability of the chalk paint vs spray paint--another thing I love about BB Frösch) 1. chalkboard spray paint (not to be confused with chalk paint!) {$7} 2. gold spray paint {2 @ $7 each} 3. chalk paint made using a lovely shade of mint mixed with BB Frösch chalk paint powder of course {$5, although I only used about $1 worth} 4. black chalk paint {left over from previous projects} After doing this project, I have to say I HANDS DOWN prefer to use chalk paint over spray paint! I love how I can count on the RELIABILITY of my results with chalk paint. Spray paint is so messy, drippy (is that a word?!), took a long time to completely dry and caused much frustration for me. Chalk paint yields fast drying, even texture, and most importantly reliable results. But beyond that, I put the VERSATILITY of BB Frösch to the test in this project and was thrilled with the results! I used BB Frösch chalk paint on WOOD, METAL, PLASTIC & RUBBER! See the diagram below: And because we all love them, here are some BEFORE & AFTERS: The kids have loved the chalkboard desk top...and apparently so have I! :) I think it's safe to assume my 5 year old approves! If you would like to try this awesome product, please click here to be redirected to my store.
I was lucky enough to have been given this lovely table from a lovely friend; I couldn't wait to paint it! It has such beautiful design, and is in fabulous shape! I decided I wanted to paint it white and lightly distress to accent it's beautiful features. This is what it looked like after 1 coat of paint. As you can see from the picture, I painted inside! It was great to be able to paint inside during the cold months. When the BB Frösch chalk paint powder is mixed in with the laytex paint, something amazing happens (well many amazing things happen)...the strong paint smell almost disappears! The BB Frösch brushes also control the paint so well, that there is very little mess. Yay for painting inside! BB Frösch chalk paint provides such good coverage, that I painted the whole table
with 1 cup of paint! I did 5 coats to get great, solid coverage, distressed with 220 grit sandpaper and of course waxed the piece at the end. BB Frösch for the win! AFTER The tree's are starting to blossom, and it's finally above 0 degrees...must mean it's spring! Horray! I love Spring time and the feeling of renewal and hope it brings. I love to decorate with greenery in my home at this time of year, so I decided to update my seasonal wreath holder window (painted with BB Frösch of course) to a spring edition by creating a faux boxwood wreath. Creating my faux boxwood wreath cost me $10, and took me 30 minutes. Now that's the kind of project I like! Needed items: grape vine wreath Boxwood garland Fishing line Ribbon All I did was lay my garland around the wreath and secure it down with fishing line and a little hot glue as needed--that easy! You could also use florist wire. Happy Spring!! So what can you do with an old window, paper, ribbon and some paint? Well....this!
I hung up a Christmas wreath I made a few years ago, and here's the finished product. But after Christmas, I didn't want to take down the window! So I decided this window would become my official SEASONAL WREATH WINDOW! I got to work looking for some inspiration for a Valentines wreath I could make and found these awesome tutorials from Yarner and unOriginal Mom. I used these as inspiration and made a few changes of my own to fit my style. I started out cutting out and hot gluing (is that a real term?) a bunch of roses with my Silhouette Machine using this cut file. This was the most time consuming part. I used a mix of 3 different shades of red (Michaels has a shades of red 8.5x11 cardstock pack). Then I got out my plain white ugly, messy styrofoam wreath (yah, styrofoam is not the funnest stuff to work with), which I got from Michaels with my 40% off coupon. My original plan was to cover the whole styrofoam wreath with the roses, but the flower part was taking forever, so I decided I would just cover the front. :) This is where the paint and ribbon part comes in. I got some beautiful thick cream ribbon to wrap around the edges and middle of the wreath. I didn't want the ugly white styrofoam to show through on the front, so once again BB Frösch chalk paint powder came to the rescue! Chalk paint on styrofoam, who woulda thought?! The painting was the fastest part-1 coat on the front that was painted and dry in 10 min from start to finish, no lie! Then I got to work hot gluing (again, is that a real term?) the ribbon around the outside and inside of the wreath. This is what it looked like from the front with the paint and ribbon done, and what the back looked like with the excess ribbon glued (but who cares if it looks ugly, no one sees it!) Last step, glue on the roses. It was kind of like playing a little game of tetris, making them all fit right together. :) And here's the final product!
I think I'm going to like this little seasonal wreath window. Looking for a unique, nice gift that is also inexpensive and quick? I made this jewelry holder for about $10 and made it from start to finish in about a half hour. Yipee! This is what you need: 1. A bare wood board (I used a left over piece of pine from a project) *the size will depend on how many handles you want, or if you are like me, then just use what you have left over from another project 2. Your paint and wax brushes 3. Paint color of your choice (again, mine was left over from a project) 4. A container with a little water 5. A cloth (the lint free clothes from the BB Frösch kit are perfect for this) 6. And of course the hardware (I got my beautiful handles at Hobby Lobby for 50% off) I decided to go for the LIME WASH EFFECT on the board. To accomplish this I got my brush damp (you want the bristles to be wet, but not dripping wet), then I squirted on a little paint (I love mixing and storing my paint in squeeze bottles!) Alternately you can dilute the paint with water and then apply the paint. Either way, you want to paint with the grain in board in long, even strokes. And here is the board with the completed lime wash. Aren't those wood grains beautiful? The whole paint and wipe process took about 5 minutes...and I even did the front and the back.
For the final step of the project, I measure and drilled the holes (yes I drilled the holes myself!) and screwed in the hardware. Done!
Check out this beauty! We inherited this dresser when my husband and I got married. It was my husband's grandpa's. That's what I love about old furniture--it was built to last! I always thought it was so ugly, but what I didn't realize, was that it had such potential! So finally one day a couple years ago I got the courage and decided to redo it. So I spent A LOT of time sanding it down. What a mess and what a pain! I got paint with primer and painted the dresser gray and then spray painted the existing hardware. It looked pretty good, but I didn't love it and the paint and spray paint chipped easily. Then BB Frösch came along, and I realized that I could easily touch it up! So I mixed up just enough paint using my left over paint from the original project (another chalk paint powder plus-just mix what you need, no waste!), and in LESS THAN AN HOUR I did a quick coat on my dresser & and 3 quick coats of white on my metal handles. Yes, YOU CAN PAINT ON METAL! I brushed the wax on, and I was done! ...or so I thought. I kept staring at it for a couple weeks, and knew it wasn't complete, so I decided to paint stripes on the side. I measured and taped down my spaces, painted it the same white as the hardware and waxed it in...then I was done (for real this time). So I present to you the after-after's :) This dresser is in my children's room, and I am happy to report that after about 3 months, it is holding up great! (Another plus of BB Frösch wax is durability!)
Yep, BB Frösch isn't just for furniture. I wanted pillows to match our coffee table, but didn't want to pay an arm and a leg in the process, so I headed over to Hobby Lobby to find fabric to attempt sewing my own, but I couldn't find fabric that matched. Then it hit me, why don't I try BB Frösch?!
For the first pillow I taped down the edges of the pillow, to leave a white border from the pillow, then I painted in the rest of the pillow using the same hashtag strokes you use with chalk paint. After letting the arrows dry, I pealed off the vinyl sticker and....ta dah! Pillow #2 was about the same process. This time I cut out herringbone pattern for the stencil. I did the main section the same blue (as the other pillow and coffee table), and the one strip on the side gold. {side note} I brushed a little clear wax on the top of the pillows, but I didn't think it really make a big difference to have it on there for this particular project. But usually, I would always recommend brushing on wax to complete the bonding of the piece with the chalk paint and also for durability. And here we go! To finish off the pillow project, I added a couple more cheap pillows from Hobby Lobby for a project grand total of $30! Not to shabby for a custom color pillow project. BB Frösch, you've done it again!
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