Still Painting

When I bought the hall tree, I said I'd never change the color.  Wrong!!  But I've waited at least a couple of years, so that is amazing for me!!

Here is the before with the original color, a smoky bluish gray:

Now, you see my favorite color when you walk in the door.

I achieved this look by rubbing vaseline on the areas that were already distressed, and that kept the new paint from adhering to those places.  The color is actually a fifty cents small bottle of Acrylic craft paint, mixed with Waverly white chalk paint.  

At first, I had too much water in the mixture of the blue, white chalk paint, plaster of paris and water, and the color barely showed up.  It looked like watered down white.  Not what I wanted.  So I poured the mixture out, and dried my bowl I was painting from and used the technique like I did on the green chest in my bedroom.  Just dabbing in white and the blue, and just using light strokes going all directions, and it turned out, the way I wanted it.

 Please excuse my unedited pictures.  Pic Monkey isn't working well for me.  If you have a suggestion for a good editing program, I'd like to know.

 The arrangement above was on the lower shelf, so I moved it to the top of the table, and added green to the arrangement.

This photo shows how well the vaseline worked. Once I was through painting, I took a soft white cloth and rubbed off the vaseline, leaving the original distressing.

I really like it with the new color.

When I get tired of aqua, I'll just paint it again!  This was a really fun project to do, I probably worked on this for an hour or a little more, and used leftover paints, so zero cost for this makeover.

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