I've been so busy lately getting projects done, and helping my b/f get ready for his first year of college. Believe me, the last was a total pain. Will is not from Ohio so there was a lot of drama involved in actually getting him into a school...a full year of drama my friends. However not that his first day has come and gone I have found even more time for projects.
In all the chaos though I have neglected this blog and that makes me sad. I have lots of projects saved up however. Eventually they'll all make their debut here lol.
This is project I did for a neighbors little girl. Her name is Eva and she is 2yrs old. She is a wild child, but as sweet as can be. The chair was something I found at our local Goodwill Outlet for I believe it was a $1.
Please ignore the chaos and clutter in the picture. This is where all my "needs to do" are stored. As you can see someone tried their own hand at decorating the chair in it's past life. I did enjoy the name Lillian however so the chair was so named. Eva's mommy does not like the color pink, but prefers bright colors. Pretty much anything is better than pink, or so she told me lol. So I got to work, and man what a pain such a little chair was. I thought for sure this would be a quick project, and admittedly it was made harder due to my "user error". Instead of priming or spray painting I decided my paint choice was dark enough to cover this light pink. Boy was that a mistake. First I used a paint color my b/f has been begging me to use called Sonic Bloom. This is made by Dutch Boy, instead of buying a gallon I decided to buy a quart of their try and buy to see if we liked it. I can say that we do enjoy the color however the paint was horrible. It was super watery, I don't know if their other paints are this thin, but after using it on this chair I would never buy a gallon. I decided to thicken it up and turn it into my homemade chalk paint. Again paint was so watery that it took twice as much to thicken. After a good 72hrs of work here was my end result.
No more pink. It took approx. 5 coats of paint to cover the pink and the sanding...don't get me started on the sanding. I should have spray painted the white on first, instead I was silly and hand painted it instead. We were pleased with the end results, however my opinion didn't matter it was Eva and her mommy's opinion. Eva clapped when I gifted her the chair and instantly sat in it. My after pictures were taken 2wks after since Eva loved it so much I couldn't grab my camera fast enough and off to her house it went.
I've been told that since receiving the chair she refuses to sit in her highchair and always wants to sit at her little table w/her chair to eat her meals. I'm so glad she enjoys it.
Project cost:
Chair: $1
Paint: $6.95 (sonic bloom, though it was bought prior to this project)
Paint: free, already had on hand (Arctic White)
blood, sweat and tears lol
