Joining the Coral Color Ranks

Having an entertainment center is rather a joke for us. We don't even have a flat screen TV yet. We don't have cable, and we watch TV once a month or so when the Braves are on a broadcast channel. We have bunny ears, and not the cute kind.

So for me, upcycling an entertainment center is really just a ploy to add another statement piece to our new family room. Finally, a place to store the blankets and the six DVDs that we own (most of them being Muppet titles).

I'd been on the lookout for an old MCM dresser for quite a while. I loved the piece found by my friend Rachel here, which is gorgeous and too lovely to paint. But it had the look I was going for. So when I found this dresser at Goodwill for twenty bucks, I hauled it home.

We removed the top drawers for components and put holes in the back for wiring. Some fun paper decoupages the inside, which Brian reinforced with thin plywood to support our many TV, cable, and game components DVD player.

Yes, coral is a fad color. But that's the great thing about painting furniture. In a few years, when coral makes us all gag and recoil, I can redo this piece in mauve or goldenrod or whatever happens to be faddish right about then...

I'll include some more pictures when we actually get this piece set up in the family room with our little TV and our freshly painted gray walls.

What pieces in your home make you happy? If you are doing more recoiling than smiling, it's time to get the paint out!

Thanks for stopping by!

In Love

I'm in love with Depression-era furniture--wardrobes, waterfall dressers and vanities, and, most of all, buffets. So I've been on the lookout for the perfect weathered buffet for about a year. I wanted one that was in poor enough condition that I wouldn't mind painting over it.

This beauty came from Craigslist. We picked it up from a gorgeous old farmhouse in downtown Simpsonville.

I viciously sanded off the old, peeled veneer and applied a heavy primer coat...

And then fixed her up with two coats of my favorite shade of peacock blue. Seriously, who doesn't need a peacock blue antique buffet in their house? 

I always freak out at this stage of the restoration. The unglazed color is so bright and almost garish. But then the black glaze goes on...

Catching Up

 New Baby is due in just a few weeks. Along with like ten other babies at church who are all coming within just a couple months of each other. Poor nursery workers. So I've been doing baby bump cakes instead of painting. And participating in the Great Zucchini challenge chronicled here.

Zucchini and feta scones

I don't do the whole pregnancy thing very well. I have memories of my mom effortlessly popping a new baby out every few years or so, with very little said between the time-span of the noticeable bump and the arrival home from the hospital with another sibling. No big deal, this scenario implied.