Quick Tour...

Stopped by 607 Vintage MarketPlace today

to drop off a few items

(and to see what goodies everyone else brought in!)

Thursday is THE DAY...!

(unless, of course, Largo doesn't cooperate!)

I thought I'd share a few more preview photos...

 Used Modern Masters on this charming little coffee table

LOVE doing these mirrors...

Lacquer on the frame, Antique Mirror Solution to distress the glass...

the mix of glossy, shiny, and distressed/aged is perfect, don't you think?

The detail on the mirrors is just stunning...but hard to capture in a photo!

  Pretty, shiny things...

 lots and lots of pretty, shiny things!

Smokin' Hot Copper

Sometimes, we pick up a piece (or pieces!)

that are SO stunning already,

it's a challenge to dream up something even more fabulous

It's like we have a RESPONSIBILITY to the pieces, you know?

This bedroom suite is a great example...

pretty fabulous, right?

 All that lovely detail?  It's raised (carved OUT of the wood, not in to it!)...AMAZING!

The shape?  

Bombe and GORGEOUS

Even the hardware is special!

 Solid wood, circa 1972

by Dixon Powdermaker

(Florida company!)

I struggled a bit...nothing was really coming to me, inspiration-wise

I actually started painting the pieces a sea blue/green

when I thought "really?  That's the best you got?"

So I stopped. And thought. And thought.

then, I recalled an AMAZING table I saw

all curves, copper, and silver...

I LOVED that table!

 ~I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do~

I tackled the nightstands first, as they had so much lovely detail work

Smokey grey metallic paint makes the curves on this set really shimmer

Highlighting the details, gorgeous silver leaf

Copper brings some warmth while still being so glam

Even the hardware is spectacular on this set!

What an amazing find this was...I hope we've done it justice!

You can find this in our Etsy Shop

Gilded Age Gorgeousness

We recently had the opportunity to try out a new product

(OK, new to US!)

It's called Modern Masters

and I now want to paint EVERYTHING

metallic!

We used the "Shimmer" Metallic Paint

in Warm Silver

(and let me tell you, I AGONIZED over what color to try

there is a rainbow of shimmery hues!)

I know, I know...you want pictures!

Here you go!

Remember THIS set?

Well just LOOK at her now!

So about the paint...

it goes on like a DREAM

It's opaque, but we used a lighter shade, so we used three coats

When I told Kenny we were going to try metallic paint, he said:

"you better let ME do this project"

He said this because he is a perfectionist painter,

whereas I am NOT...

Usually, metallics are VERY unforgiving

and every brush stroke shows

(which explains why Kenny didn't want me to do it!)

but this paint is so SMOOTH!

It dried fairly quickly, too

These pieces had a shiny, varnished surface

so we lightly sanded them first

We distressed just a little, and the paint was easy to distress

To finish, we used dark wax

I was very worried that I'd opted to tackle 

such a LARGE project with one quart of paint...

but guess what?

We've got half a quart left!  

I am OVER-THE-MOON

about how this set turned out...

Modern Masters was the perfect choice

to GLAM it up...

I loved it so much, in fact, 

I'm painting my own buffet-turned-entertainment center next!

This set is available in our ETSY shop