Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

Lots of folks in blog land are adding stripes to furniture, tables, fabric, and all kinds of things.  I have added stripes to a couple of items that I want to share with you. This table belonged to my paternal grandmother.  I barely remember her.  I do remember using this table like a desk as a little girl.  It was dark brown.  Years later, I started sanding the top and went through multiple layers of paint.  Even an old newspaper sheet was underneath all the paint.  I had used a stripper though, and the paper was ruined, so I don't know why it was there.   When I first started blogging, I was introduced to Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.  This table was the first item I painted with it (Olde White).  I was getting the feel of the paint and dark wax, and ended up waxing it very heavily.  I decided I liked the "stripped" look that the wax brought to the table, so I left it that way. Here is the table before the stripes were added....

My husband was a professional truck driver during his working years, hauling hazardous materials.  Most of the time, there were two drivers in each truck.  This allowed the truck to move 24/7.  He did this for nearly 40 years.  One of the drivers who teamed with him years ago, built this rough old box from plywood for them to place between the seats, to hold items they needed, and keep them from being loose in the cab.  We came across the "trunk" a few weeks ago when we were organizing the basement, and I set it aside for a makeover.  I didn't take a before picture, but it was plywood, covered with polyurathene.   You can see from the inside, how roughly built it is.   Imagine the outside, looking the same, but with polyurathene. Well of course it had to have a paint job, so I used some old ceiling flat white that I had on hand as the first coat. It did a good job of covering. Yesterday, I decided to put a fabric sc...