Cottage Studio Furniture Progress

Boy, do I have a lot of furniture to paint for my craft studio! But it's coming along and really, I find painting to be quite relaxing. Today I put the first coat of paint on an old armoire and my new craft table hubs built for me. I also primed an old telephone table and a sideboard that my grandmother gave me 15 years ago. This is the part where my mother will probably call me and say "I thought I said that you should *not* paint that sideboard! It's CHERRY!". (I'm sorry, Mama!). It's an old table that has been needing to be refinished since it was given to me - it had a sticky finish from where it had been stored in an attic of an old house for a while. I did start to take the old finish off many years ago, got about a fifth of the way through, and then my 1st daughter was born. And that was as far as I got. This old table has moved everywhere with me ever since - and always put in storage until I thought I could get around to stripping it completely. It really has been a shame that I've never really used in all the years that I've had it in my possession. I thought long and hard about it and decided that I was going to use it in my studio (it has wheels, can be easily moved around) and that if I was going to use it, it should fit my style and work with my decor. Besides, I've only stained a couple of pieces of furniture before in my life, and they both turned out horribly. This piece will get passed down to my girls, and hopefully by the time they're grown and I'm ready to give it up, I'll be able to afford to pay a professional to strip and refinish it for me.:)

Is that my phone I hear ringing? Help!


We've made some progress with the big ugly (and dirty!) cubed storage unit that once held paint cans and tools in our garage. Hubs has added extra shelving to it and a new top and bottom. The shelving will serve to hold trays of faux desserts as I'm working on them. We wanted to add the beadboard to the sides of the unit on Saturday, but it started raining and we didn't have enough room to cut the beadboard in the garage. But here is how it looks as of now:



When it's all finished, it's going to take a while to paint, I'm sure. The shelves slide out, so at least that will make it much easier. When the shelves are all painted along with the inside of the cubes, we'll slide them back in and attach a beadboard back and moulding to the front.

If you remember from a previous post, originally I had planned on hubs building a nice L-shaped unit that would run in front of the sliding glass doors and then down the adjoining wall. I still want to do that, but that requires even more time and money, and I'm anxious to get crafting. So we'll work on that down the road. For now, the armoire will hold some supplies and the computer.

So if you're wondering what I'm to, I'm probably painting...or on the phone doing some serious explaining to my Mom!

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