Oil Painting Upholstery! Why not?

New ideas and applications fascinate me these days. When I went down to St Louis to take a Wood Icing® workshop from owner Rose Wilde, I saw a terrific chair in her art studio. She has a number of artists who consign work in her store. One was using oil painting canvases as upholstery. I loved the look and waited for the right pieces to show up! They eventually did....

 

Two upholstery Queen Anne style chairs and two still life oil paintings that all appealed to me.

 

My talented new employee Mary Lou Killebrew and I decided this was a project we should undertake Thursday morning. And by the end of business Friday, the work was complete!

 

 

                           What do you think? Unusual accent chairs for someone to enjoy!

How did we do it? Fortunately the beading on the chair back upholstery was simply glued on, so we removed that and washed down and rinsed all the wood with dish soap and water. Mary Lou painted the wood with Chalk Paint® decorative paint by Annie Sloan in Chateau Grey whish is a wonderful sage green. I spritzed the upholster on the back and seat with water and painted those with Arles, which worked nicely with the gold yellow color in the vases of the still life paintings. Everything received two coats. We followed this with two coats of Annie Sloan's soft clear wax on the painted wood.

Next, I removed the paintings from their frames and stretchers. I traced the upholstered area onto tracing paper, then centered it over the paintings and cut around it with about an inch margin. I then also cut a couple layers of batting to plump up the back upholstery so the canvases would not get creased. Laying the batting over the upholstery, I worked with a staple gun around the area, tucking under the edges of the painting as I went.

 I found yards of edging that complemented the paintings at Hobby Lobby in the closeout section for $4.  I must admit I was happy there were two of us to apply this around the edge of the paintings. We used a two part, five minute set up epoxy. We learned as we went that it was best to let the epoxy set for about 2-3 minutes before we applied it to our material so it did not soak in or drip...Things went much faster when we had that worked out.

We think this is a very sharp look and fun project that we imagine will catch on! Was a fun and rewarding project!

TLC Vintage Newsletter Volume 4

Newsletter Volume 4
September 2013

CENTRAL IOWA HEADQUARTERS Chalk Paint® Decorative Paint by Annie Sloan Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint ______________________________________________ Visit us at 7518 Hickman Rd in Des Moines! New products:   Scrubby! Arriving next week! A natural soap infused scrubber that has an orange aroma. Great for cleaning and conditioning your paint brushes! TSP – Degreaser for cleaning kitchen cabinets or other items that may have collected airborn grease. Rinse off with water, then denatured alcohol and you are ready to rehab your cabs with Chalk Paint® Large Syringes – To measure paint amounts when mixing for a custom color. Or if you want to keep your can top clean for a tight fit, suction out paint with the syringe and put paint in separate container while painting. Tip of the Month: Want a super smooth finish that feels like silk to your touch? Buy 440-660 grit sandpaper and sand gently between Chalk Paint® coats. This removes even the faintest hint of brush stroke lines. Also be sure to water that second coat down just a tad with distilled water to help level your brush strokes. 0000 grade steel wool will do the same. But be sure to not apply lots of pressure or you may burnish the paint (making it shine) which makes it difficult to apply the wax. You may also sand gently after each coat of wax before polishing! Janet’s Favorite FB Pages! Each month we will mention some of our favorite businesses that are TLC Vintage customers! They are all doing super stuff, so check them out! re:home – This new occasional shop in Winterset, IA 68 E Court St, on the square premiers September 5-8! Then open the second weekend of each month! Many vendors wears – upcycled and repurposed! Creation Saturday – Two transplanted farm sisters taking old barn wood to new heights! Custom work as well! Junkin Cowgirls – 121 E Monroe, Pleasantville, IA. Open first weekend each month                                                                      Workshop Schedule Chalk Paint® 101 Learn the fundamentals of painting with Chalk Paint® decorative paint by Annie Sloan. One and two color distressing, rustic, modern, faux copper patina, antiquing as well as application of soft clear and dark wax. Class is $85 in advance. Offered on the following dates: September 7 – SOLD OUT September 24 – SOLD OUT October 5 – 9 am to noon – One space available as of 9/4 October 22 –6 pm to 9 pm –Just added due to high demand! November 9 – 9 am to noon December 7 – 9 am to noon Wood Icing! September 21, Saturday 8:30-11  am – Break – 2:30 pm to 5 pm. Think of icing a cake then transfer that idea over to a wood box or panel! Everything included. Break for you to go out to lunch or junking around town while the texture dries before coming back to paint your work. $125 Update Your Kitchen Cabinets or Built-ins!October 19 -- Saturday -- Noon to 4 pm In this class you will decide how to redo your kitchen cabinets or built-ins. How to prep for the job, what materials to purchase, decide on colors and techniques and do a board or door that will be your sample of your future rehab.  $120 Studio Time -- by request!This can be a tutoring session, a time/place for you to bring in and leave a piece of furniture to work on with helpful oversight, or a girls' afternoon or evening out. $15 per hour for individual, and adjusted for groups. Requirement that you purchase and use our materials and supplies for your project. Call to reserve and check availability. Cancellation Policy: Payment is required to reserve your place in class. Fees are non-refundable. But if your plans change and you give two weeks’ notice before your class date, you can take the class at a later date that it is offered within six months of original date. Under two weeks, I will try to fill your space and then you can choose another class date when offered. However, if I am unable to fill your space, you will forfeit your fee. Thank you for your understanding of this policy.

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Some Projects Take a Little Longer Than Others.....

Seriously, I am working on that procrastination thing! Remember this? I think I first posted it somewhere around last November! Then I posted stages of it! Then it got stuck in the back of my priority list. But at last.....

 

...it is done, done, done!

 

 

I am not quite sure why it took this long except that I get distracted by the next wonderful thing to come along. But the Chalk Paint® decorative paint by Annie Sloan transformation is amazing. To cover up the awful vinyl contact paper at the back of the cabinet, we wall papered old music to the back. Then we used Annie Sloan two-part Craqueleur to crack the surface and used a wash of King Gold Gilding Wax over the surface to give it glimmer. The cabinet is lighted and features two glass shelves, one with a plate groove.

The doors are charming with the original metal grid in the original deep brass color. Below is a cabinet to tuck away linens and a silverware box. I just wonder what took me so long! I hope you are charmed by it!

Who Lives Here Anyway???

Funny thing happened last Tuesday. A group of junking friends were together and one said to me, "I'd love to see all the cool painted stuff at your house." Another one laughed...."There's no cool painted stuff at her house!" Hello!?!?! Why not?

               My Boring Living Room -- Best Feature Picture Window looking out to the woods!

Then, next day a new customer comes into the shop. "Oh, I just love this place. Your house must be amazing!" Dan looked at me; I looked at him and we burst out laughing!

                                  Standard 1999 development area kitchen....yawwwwnnnn!

                                                Most exciting thing is the dated wall color!

So why isn't my house as cool as my shop? The answer is: lack of passion. The shop has been a work of love and totally unfettered self-consciousness. This has happened only once in my home -- when I first moved in, and missing my 12 years in Europe, I decorated my dining room to reflect my Swiss years.

                      Typography and postmarked walls, art from Europe, sleek table and chairs.

It is in a bit of disarray at moment because of a beautiful screen I purchased from the talented Jeanene Dean of Serendipity House and it doesn't quite fit the space. But we are just talking a need to rearrange things.

So now I am on a new mission. Releasing my true self in decorating my home to be as cool as the shop. Truly at the moment, I prefer the look of the shop and love every aspect of it except for the parts where we haven't redone the floors and walls (powder room and workshop transformations yet to come). But I need to have some chandeliers at home and enjoy my new found skills at painting in the kitchen and living room. I've already started scouting cool new pieces to incorporate in our home. I'm looking at things with a new eye! Not what is practical, but that which impassions me. 

The first quick fix was the entrannce to our home. Hello, Aubusson Blue and Pure White! Chalk Paint® decorative paint is going to make this easy! Welcome home, Annie Sloan! Thank you for all the inspiration and release from my humdrum old ways! Stay tuned as we progress!