Spiffying Up the Front Porch and Click and Chat Link Up Party

Happy Summer! I've been pretty busy around here finishing up all my projects. First up the Sofa is done!! I have started on my coffee table project next and I can't wait to share it with you. In the meantime, I decided to paint my front door, the kickplate and add some snazzy address numbers to the door.   Before: You can see that I had already given it the new coat of  black paint. I simply took black paint that I had and added unsanded grout to create the chalk paint. I gave it about three coats, letting it dry in between. Then I applied dark wax. I first painted the kickplate with chalk paint  Then I gave it two coats with this: I pretty happy with the way it looks. I simply cut out the stencil with my Cricut and used the same metallic paint I had on hand.  Now it's your turn to show me what you got by joining our click and chat party!! The Click and Chat Social Media Link up #13   Thank you so much...

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As usual, I leave everything until the last minute. For a year now I've been wanting to transform this piece (of junk) into a modern masterpiece :)  So in a matter of days I prepped, primed and painted this old dresser so it could make it's debut on Christmas Eve.  I got it a year ago from someone who was going to throw it away. I saw a great potential for it but it has been in my garage since then. I finally convinced my hubby to bring it in already so I could (be forced) to start it. I went back and forth on how I wanted to paint it: distressed with chalk paint, sanded and stained, a combo of both or --- use this awesome new paint I discovered! Modern Masters-Warm Silver. It took a while for me to come up with the cash and the retailer to finally make up my mind. But boy, oh boy, am I sure glad I did.  Here is the before: As you can see, it was nothing to write home about. Pretty drab and 1980s-ish. But like I said, I had imagined it to be m...

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