Furniture Facelift with Chalk Paint - Before/After

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be here today…and so honored! I love Between U & Me…super fun and makes me feel oh so happy!

I am Janel and I blog over at Hating Martha. My blog is all about imperfection and the perfect life chaos and mistakes create. I have a lot of fun doing crafty things, homey stuff, cooking, parenting, and all kinds more craziness. Stop over some time and say hi…I promise to give you my best smile! Today I wanted to show you a quick furniture facelift I did recently. It was done just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas guests to ooh and aah. Cause when you see her…you can’t help it!

Isn’t she a beauty? She cost me $35.00. No joke. I actually wanted to offer more because I felt so bad. But, I sucked it up and walked out with her for cheap, cheap, cheap. I have been seeing chalk paint all the time now that I have joined bloggy world. Bloggers seem to love it. But, it was rather expensive. And I would need to order it. Too complicated. So, I tried the homemade version.

This is the color I ended up with. It was in the oops paint. The whole gallon was $5. I used about 2 cups. So…how much does that end up costing me? Like….75 cents? Ouch. Expensive… Anyways, I was happy because I couldn’t decide if I wanted yellow or orange. Then I saw this in the oops and I said…yellow!

Another view of the color…with a bit different lighting (funny what a difference that makes!)

Here she is with her first (and only) coat of chalk paint. Lovely!

Those little details. I did distress them a bit to give them more definition.

I lined the interior of the drawers with some vintage contact paper I found at a thrift store for $1.99 for the roll.

A little peek of what you see when you open the drawers. Sweet!

I was originally going to change out the hardware. Then I changed my mind. I couldn’t find anything reasonably priced that I liked better. So I “tarnished” the ones that already were on it and just changed out the top drawer knobs with some inexpensive ones from my local hardware store.

There is the hardware roughened up a bit. Much better.

There she is in her proud new spot in my living room. She serves as a buffet for all my beautiful antique china. She loves her new job. Isn’t she just darling! We added some casters to give her some more oomph and make her more portable…she loves shoes! And I love color!