Furniture updo and creative space - part 1

by - Dienstag, Januar 10, 2017

Hello out there!

In the past week I finally managed to finish setting up my own little creative space. It all started quite a while ago, when I went to the thrift shop to get some old furniture. I went home with a dresser, a secretary, 3 pieces of wood, and 2 framed pictures, which I only got because I wanted the frames.
I’m splitting this up into 2 parts, otherwise this will take forever to read.
So here we go, starting with all of the before refurbishment pictures:

How I did it: 
I got a sander and chalk paint and paint brush from a cute little shabby chic store in my hometown (link below). My mom and I both just love it. A lot of pretty things, some gooood (and I mean good) coffee, all located in an old tiny chapel, how cool is that? 

First, I removed the old wood lacquer with the sander to reveal the beautiful wood underneath. I was really surprised how light the wood was. Working with this old, durable piece of furniture was very pleasing. It felt so different compared to setting up modern (and rather low cost) furniture.
Second step was painting it. The wood sucked up a lot of paint, so multiple layers were needed to receive coverage. For my chest, I wanted a rustic/shabby chic look and only did about 2 layers. Ta-da!

I'm using it for storage and as a TV stand. I learned that I really like creating things. The pleasing feeling, when you can look at what you made with your own hands (more or less). Amazing! 
From the same store I got the paint, I also got a nice little extra
The rusty look just perfectly rounds up the style of this dresser.

Now to my secretary. The work was the same, except I used about 3 to 4 layers of paint and I also got a light blue paint to add a bit color to it. It now functions as my creative space. I store all my supplies for my journals, planner, my colored pencils, some goods for decorating, and of course all of my crochet yarn, wool, hooks etc.! I am very happy with the result and I can only recommend you to try this yourself!
So, this was it for this part. If you would like to find out, what happened to this picture frame, and more, come back for the second part!

PS: yes, I made that unicorn myself, yes I do have journals and a gorgeous Heidi Swapp planner. I’m planning on making posts on those things as well.
And check out the store I was talking about here


“Be the reason someone smiles today”,
take care
Chantal


All pictures were taken by me, edited with polarr

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