before and after with annie sloan and the graphics fairy

Summer certainly is a busy time isn't it?
I've been crazy busy this summer with selling at flea markets, and getting ready to sell at flea markets. I just don't seem to find the time to sit at the computer much right now. But I did want to share this little make-over project I finished recently.
The above chair started out looking like this:

A cute little chair, but I felt it certainly had more potential.
I took the seat off and cleaned up the chair. Then I gave it one coat with some inexpensive no-name interior flat latex white paint.
After that, I used gray sample paint I have to give a light coat on the chair back and arms.
Over that I painted two light coats of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint over the whole chair.
Once that was nice and dry, I sanded the chair revealing the gray underneath the ASCP and to give it a look of wear in certain places.
You can see some of the detail here

and here.

To finish it off, I waxed it with clear Annie Sloan wax. I love her wax, it's so easy to use.

Next I worked on recovering the seat cushion.

I had some left-over canvas drop cloth from a previous project that was just enough to cover the seat.
I went to the Graphics Fairy site { L.O.V.E. her site! }and found a French label graphic to use for the seat. I resized it and printed it on an ink jet iron-on transfer sheet, then ironed it on the canvas.

The finished chair.

I was pretty pleased with the way it turned out.

Once again, before and after:

I finished it just in time to take it to the flea market with me.

It was one of the first things sold that day.

If you haven't been to the Graphics Fairy web site, you should visit her, she has 1000s of vintage clip art graphics free for you to download.

Hope you are enjoying your summer, thanks for stopping by,

xo maureen