Author: Autumn (Janette)
While most of Blogland is knee deep into Christmas decorating, I have vowed to hold off at least another week. So, I will be offering up non-holiday posts like today’s entry about a bench I renewed.
I bought this little Queen Anne bench, sight unseen, from a local auction house a few weeks ago. I spotted it on their website and made a bid over the phone. Luckily, the next day I received a call telling me I had won it.
I followed the usual drill of disassembling it and ripping off a few layers of fabric.
Then I recovered the seat with this great blue linen upholstery fabric I found at a local fabric shop. The bench will go in our master bedroom, and the blue is the same color as the adjacent master bath.
I painted the bench with antique white chalk paint.
I then roughed it up with sand paper……….
and applied wax.
This is the final product. I think it is a pretty good before and after.
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Great job Janette! I love the new fabric and color.
I’m putting off decorating until next week when my daughter gets home from college. She loves doing it, so I’m happy to wait!
Have a great day.
Pam
Wow, what a big difference in your bench. I love it, the color and the fabric is gorgeous. Lovely.
~Emily
The French Hutch
Wow, I love your bench! What a fantastic job you did. Love the fabric and the black showing through. I bought a sofa table at a yard sale for $20 that I want to paint with chalk paint so bad. There’s only one place to buy it here. It’s 45-60 min. away. Hopefully I get up there soon. Love the look!
I love your reFreshed bench! Paint is a good thing!
Debbie
Love the fabric!
good lookin’ The fabric works perfectly.
Oh you did such a great job on this bench! It looks beautiful.
It looks lovely – I really like that fabric too.
Hi Janette
You did a great makeover on the bench, I like the fabric that you used.
Thanks for stopping by yesterday and bringing me up to date on your cycling trip through France, shame about the dog bite!