Relove: Chalk Paint Makeovers

These are three pieces I finished a while ago, but just never blogged.

All three are painted in Cece Caldwell chalk paint and sealed with clear wax.

Chalk paint is amazing for furniture. Not only is it non-toxic, non-smelling (you can paint in your house!), and green, but you don't need to prime. With latex paint you have to either sand your piece down to the bones, or paint on a primer before you can begin. Sanding is a huge mess and priming is time consuming and in my opinion gunks up your furniture. Primer is hard to paint on detailed areas, it tends to show through your paint.

So with chalk paint, you literally just clean and dry off your piece and then begin! It also dries super fast and is soooooo easy to distress! I love distressing. In fact I have a hard time finishing a piece without doing it! To distress chalk paint, all you need is a damp cloth. You just gently rub where you want to remove or lighten paint, and voila... Looks like you spent hours!!

I will add, that the only down side to chalk paint is the "waxing". This seals in your paint. It is definitely a longer process that just painting on some polycrylic, but it is very very necessary and is the final step in your makeover!

Here are the before pictures of a gorgeous chest of drawers I refinished for two twin little girls' bedroom. I painted it in a soft pink and lined the drawers with Paris themed paper.

It is such a sturdy, solid piece!

Here are the afters!

I loved how it turned out! I changed out the hardware as well, that is one of the easiest ways to update the look of furniture.

Next are a set of chairs I refinished. I painted them in a light blue and went with a cute and funky yellow-ish fabric.

Before:

This is why I love chalk paint! Right smack dab in the middle of my living room! I just throw an old towel over my coffee table and paint away. :) No smell and no icky sinus infections for me.

Here are the afters:

I love their curves and lines!

And lastly I made over this cute little vintage chair. I actually purchased this to refinish with THIS desk, but the chair ended up being too wide for the opening. I have been told that this chair is a Duncan Phyfe chair, but I don't know for sure! It has the same characteristics and small size, but there were also a lot of look-a-likes made back in the day as well.