Friday Furniture Finish

I got my reupholstered chairs and foot stool back. I am thrilled with the wonderful job.

The foot stool will be in the sitting room with the two neutral chairs.  One reclines for a tired rooster and the other is for this chick to nest in.  I was always sorry I never got the matching foot stool. Now I'm not sorry at all.

The two recovered chairs will be in the front dining room.  They can be drawn up to the table or they can be available for serious thinking as they are not quite as comfortable as the over stuffed chairs.

As each choice is made it fine tunes the over all design plan.  The new chairs are best on either side of the stove and my original ideal for glass fronted cabinets that keep the dust out  may be too deep. I may have to revert to bookcases. WAIT, they could be shallow glass fronted cabinets that are the same depth as the bookcases.  Blogging my thoughts is the very best thing!  :)    The door in the sitting room leads to the bathroom and kinda needs to be there but needs upgrading.  I'm seriously thinking of putting  a door with glass panes in it, probably white.  They would then relate to the sliding doors with wooden inserts that are behind the curtain.  In summer I switch my chair with a gate leg table for easier access to that door.

I am really trying to stay focused on finishing the bathroom and then into these two rooms for painting and finishing.

Aging Legs

This turned out to be a much bigger job than I figured.

 The cream chalk paint dried overnight and this morning I applied a clear wax to all the painted woodwork.

Then I added the dark wax.  I did all of one chair which made extra work because it dries too much and then you have to really rub to get it off.  You want the darker wax to just get into the dips and depressions and wipe off the extra leaving only a slightly aged effect.  Applying more clear softens things and makes it look good.  But one section at a time is better.

I got both chairs done and was working on the foot stool when my Rooster showed up on his lunch break to take my flat tire off.  NO, I have no idea, says she with a niggling doubt in the back of her mind, why a new tire would go flat!!!.  By the time I got him back to work and the tire to the tire shop my footstool was quite dry and lacked that extra polishing time.

There she is.  Does she need something  more to make her compatible with the others?  Hard to tell from these photos.  If it really was this obvious I'd know to darken it a bit but in reality I'm thinking she need lightening.

Edit: ah, I knew I wasn't going colour blind!

She will stay in the sitting room with the taupe chairs that show in the background.  The 2 chairs will be nearby in the dining room.

The distressed look fits our lifestyle.  Not so much shabby chic as comfortable rooster.  I must also confess that this old biddy does drag, bang, and bounce the vacuum off the various corners of doorways and protruding legs.  oye!

Now my own legs are quite fine but my hands are feeling all the rubbing and patting.  Next is to deliver them to the gal who will be recovering them.

But really, they are looking not too shabby!