Upholstery fabric paint



I Love this chair!

Love the lines, scale, style, and price

 but..... it's the wrong color and the manufacturer doesn't offer it in different fabrics.
 

I've seen some upholstery paints and was a little leery

of the paint changing the texture of the fabric.
 

Thinking... Thinking... Should I ?... What if ?.....
Eh...Wrap-em up!

 

 

 

Close up of the chair arm.

It's a pretty gold color but its not in our color scheme.

I would like a charcoal grey.

 

I taped the arms and papered the wood to protect from over spray.
 



Hobby lobby had this fabric paint in the grey I wanted so...Here it goes.....

The fabric texture is slightly rougher but it doesn't bother me.

I Love the results!!

It was so easy you cannot mess it up.

The chairs took 2 coats a piece

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silk Padded Wall

 

Why would a builder stick a window in the corner on the Bed facing wall???

Symmetry !!!!

 

 

 

Here's the plan... Let's make it disappear

 

We covered the window with blackout fabric.

My supplies:

Measuring tape

Foam core

Batting

Fabric
2 inch strips of wood
Nail gun

and the all powerful glue gun 

 

 

 

We wanted a grid look so we purchased wooden slats and painted them

 with Ralph Lauren metallic silver paint

 



We found beautiful silk fabric.
 We measured, we cut, we hot glued the batting and Fabric on to the foam core. 

We cut strips of wood to size and nailed them to hold the panels.

They are snug as a bug!

 

We worked our way down the wall.

 

 What Window?

  

 

 

 Here is a photo taken during the day,

We still get plenty of light in our relaxing boudoir.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIY Stain Staircase Hand Rails

It's been our mission since we bought this house to never see yellow oak again!

The problem: Light oak staircase... oh...and no carpet

Time for a makeover....

We began by taping the spindles and carpet at the bottom of the newels (post) to protect our new carpet.

Buhbye yellow oak...

 

 Before 

 

 Fab-After

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

This is one coat of gel stain.
If you desire a darker look this can be achieved by applying another coat.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family Portrait Spoof

Ever wondered how it would be to live in the 17th or 18th century?

Well... I was up to no good and with a little help from photoshop

I created a formal wall display of our

family in my favorite century attire......

Let's meet the family shall we?

 

 My daughter, who hates this picture, she says she looks like a dog with a head cone.

 The beautiful "Ginger"duchess, My mother in-law

 My sister the equestrian

 Moi

 Yeah...How you DOIN?

My bro in-law

 Love the curls ...Love the curls

 

Same brother in law with a new look

My gorgeous eldest Son, Heir to the Throne



My other Brother in law... The Arteeeest!!!

 Is this a princess? Or is this a Princess?

"IM A PRINCESSSSS!!!!

 My Lady...

 My Father in law who I really love him in this outfit

 Pops..

My beautiful "French" Puertorican gorgeous mother

 

 

 My Handsome Duke Mitchell the 3rd

 My other lady....

Young duke

 

Young knight in training
 

Last but not least, my cutie little nephew petootie..

the future earl of Missouri

 

I picked up french provincial frames at Hobbly Lobby and local thrift stores

 

The family loved it!

Trellis Stencil Pattern with Metallic Paint

Our Blurry Office..

We recently purchased a house and carefully chose the room

 that would be our new office.

Unfortunately, I didn't take a good before picture so

I used the poor quality listing picture, hence the blurriness

(Is that a real word...)

I've been seeing a lot of trellis patterns in interior design and I'm totally in love.

Lets do a featured trellis wall!!

I researched many stencils and chose cuttingedgestencils.com

We're impatient so out goes the blow dryer!

on cool a setting of coarse.

It's very important to use a level when preparing a starting point

so your pattern stays level and consistent throughout

oh... and and tape the edge of the ceilings
 

 

   Make sure to keep the pattern level or you'll have a wall from
 Ripley's Believe It or Not.



                     

This is a before picture of the featured wall

I should mention we converted the closet into an open

space to place our office credenza.

Fits like a glove....
 



We used a metallic paint so taking a picture was challenging.

The pictures captured a halo.





 

I painted an abstract painting of lips in silver shades