White Painted Furniture.

Okay. Remember when I posted that I had a few crafts take over my life well here is one daunting craft that I conquered, a wood hutch. I've been wanting to paint this hutch for some time and finally got the time to do. And when I say time, I mean a lot of time. But that is beside the point, because now it is finished. And I love it. 

The hutch was just a normal piece of furniture and I wanted it to look like an antique furniture piece. 

Take a look and see.

Before

After

You know I saw a lot of other pictures of people doing this same kind of process and I thought I'd give it try. I was really surprised of how easy it actually was! These are some of the steps I took- they're really simple steps but they worked for me:

• First:  take off the doors and knobs.
• Second: Begin the sanding. You want to sand before you paint so you can take off the previous finish and get down to the bare wood.
• Third: PAINT! You are now ready to start painting (I used like an eggshell white, to give it  more of creamier look), and make sure to paint 2 or 3 layers.
• Fourth: Then you just start sanding off the paint to give it that aged look. Anywhere and everywhere.

 Here are some of the decor inside in my new white painted furniture which were simple to make but add some character to the hutch.

 Here is a picture frame i made in a woodworking class, stained dark brown accompanied by a photo I took... quite simple.

See that book? Brandon made that for an assignment once and it gave me the ideas for the scrolls...
And maybe in a future post I can show how it was done.

Here I just grabbed some twigs off our tree outside like I did before but just used brown spray paint instead of black. As you can tell I love this look

                          

                                All the plates/bowls were created by my husband- amazing right??

Hold on. Except one plate- see that large one in the back? yea I did that one. Well i painted, painted at color me myne. haha. not as cool

There you have it. A new piece of white furniture to our home- quite the project but loving the outcome.