Finished project
(Not quite)
I have been working on many projects which I thought I would have posted by now. With Pinterest in my life I keep finding better ways to do some of my ideas. I have a lot of materials and a bunch of half done projects. I wanted to post the stools I made for the craft room. The are not 100% done (they need a clear coat which is the hubby's department).
I need seating in the craft room. I will admit I was being very selfish with my craft room and realized one day that this shouldn't be my room but a room that I enjoy with the kids. So, I turned the table short end to the wall. Which gave us two sides of 6 ft work space. I really don't want to buy more damask chairs seeing they cost over $150 and well, I like having my queen chair. I didn't want to spend a lot which is hard to do and still get what you like. I was inspired by a friend that has started to recently antique/distress/paint furniture.
I bought a couple of stools at Walmart. They are cheap looking before my redo. They were $15.98 and they are wood. One of the legs is well, here is a picture....
I really didn't care about how it looked because I was going to paint them. I lightly sanded them and put two coats of brick red on the stools. I was tempted to stop here. I love me some RED!
I then took a candle and waxed places on the stool that you would naturally touch or put your feet on. I then painted two coats of black. The beauty of this project is that I didn't have to cover really well because that is the point in the long run, distressed. Both the red and black paint were used on other projects so I spent nothing on paint.
I did two coats of black and then took steel wool and took off the paint that was over the wax. It was that easy. With the wax on the red it didn't take much muscle to get the black paint off. Detail picture.
My Hubby is going to spray a clear coat on them for me. I draw the line at power tools. Air compressor and paint sprayer, no thank you. The clear coat was $15 and the two stools were $32. That makes each chair less than $25.
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