Hi guys!  Happy snowy morning to ya.

The storm that’s rolling through just dumped another foot of snow on West Michigan ~ you know what that means ~ SNOW DAY!!!

No worries though, ‘cuz my cousin Matt of Pro Mow Landscaping is to the rescue!

The kids are still nestled under their heated blankets

Little do they know when they wake up, it’s operation “clean the house ‘cuz it’s another furniture painting workshop weekend” at the Andrade house.

It’s been so cold and we’ve had so much snow this week that I’ve decided to move the workshops that we normally set up in the garage to the luxury of our toasty warm living room.  We only heat this part of the garage for the workshops but the part of my workshop that I keep heated year round is small ~ VERY small.  It works great for a dresser but even something like a buffet is too wide for me to easily work around.

I decided to paint their bedroom furniture in our living room, OK OK, the furniture actually sprawled through our living room AND dining room when you tack on several other projects I’m working on.

Guess what?  I LOVED it!!  Call me crazy, but this may just be the new norm.  I actually got the idea when I started painting a king size bedroom set a few days ago.

Anyway… in the middle of my makeover, I got a wild hair to show you how easy it is to wet distress CeCe Caldwell’s Paint with just a damp rag.  Here goes!  Never mind that it is totally unedited ~ you’re getting Shelly here, up close and personal.  My hair isn’t brushed and apparently I can’t put my pj’s on right side out ~ lol!  Enjoy!!

Learn How Easy it is to Wet Distress with CeCe Caldwell’s Paint

Here’s how it looks after being wet distressed 

I did this right in the comfort of my living room since it doesn’t create any dust like sanding does  and CeCe Caldwell’s line is completely all natural ~ 100% green.  

CeCe Caldwell’s Paints are Latex Free! 

 To Watch the Wet Distressing Video, click here

 

Our paint is latex free which is not only great news for people with latex allergies, but is also what makes our paint so easy to distress.

 You have to wet distress BEFORE you wax it because waxing seals the deal

Check out the finished bed here  

 Now that you know how easy it is, go try it and have a blast making over your first piece!!

 a hui hou, Shelly

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Linking up at these great parties:
Restore Interiors – Restored it Wednesday
Primitive & Proper – POWW 95
Domestically Speaking – The Power of Paint Party
The Shabby Creek Cottage – Transformation Thursday
Miss Mustardseed – >Furniture Feature Friday
Redoux –Friday Link Up Party
Homespun Happenings – Rustic Restorations Weekend
Funky Junk Interiors – Saturday Night Special
1929 Charmer – Sunday’s Best Party
Knick of Time Interiors – Knick of Time Tuesday

a hui hou!

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Hand Painted Faux Clock Table

Best Painted Furniture Renovations by

Shizzle Design ~ 2012

Antique Oak Buffet

I also used a router for the first time to carve out a new top to replace the old oak top which had warped beyond repair.

I really wanted to keep it for MY bathroom vanity but knew the tear out and installation would be too much for me to take on alone.

You can check out the entire transformation of this buffet here

The Second Most Popular Post receiving the most interest in my style of painting was the…

Vintage China Cabinet

Layered and Dry Brushed Shizzle Style in CeCe Caldwell’s Cinco Bayou Moss, Spring Hill Green and Destin Gulf Green

This type of painting truly reflects my personality.

 This is one of my favorite paint styles!

You can see much more pictures of the finish I did on this piece here.

Coming in at #3 was the…

French Provencial Lingerie Chest with Hand Painted Hardware

(I am seriously addicted to painting hardware!)

For complete details on this piece, visit Lingerie Chest with Hand Painted Hardware

STUDENT BEWARE ~ If you come to one of my Shizzle Style Paint Your Furniture Workshops, watch out… I have a really hard time leaving people’s hardware alone ~ Just sayin!!

Following are the remaining Best of Shizzle Design 2012, shown in no particular order.  Each of them contain the direct link to the post in directly below their photo.  Enjoy!!

Vintage Stereo Cabinet Claimed by Mom

 details on this Vintage Stereo Cabinet HERE

This Vintage Bed found a new home in Long Island, New York!

More on this bed HERE

Solid Pine Vintage Cedar Chest

Click here for more photos & information on this cedar chest

Antique Hand Painted Buffet / Sideboard in ASCP

Many more pictures of this buffet are available here

Gorgeous Antique Dresser in Destin Gulf Green

Click here to see more photos of this dresser transformation

My Signature Style Paint Technique

Hand painted and waxed in CeCe Caldwell’s Eco-Friendly Paints ~ read more here.

Empire Chest of Drawers in Old White

Click HERE for more pictures and info on this dresser

Antique Buffet Hand Painted in CeCe Caldwell’s Mesa Sunset

more info and availability of this buffet here

Hand Painted Lamps in Alaskan Tundra Green

more information on how to update your lamps with paint here

French Dining Room Table and Chairs in Vintage White

Entire transformation including using tips on using a spray gun are available here

One Sassy Antique Dresser!

read all about this vintage dresser here

Autumn’s Blessings Buffet

check out the entire transformation of this buffet here

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• We’ve opened up a Shizzle Design Paint Studio at 2018 Chicago Drive, Jenison, Michigan 49428?  This is where Cathy and I paint our furniture but we want our customers to know that we’re here for you.  We encourage everyone to stop in any time to buy paint or to get your questions answered.
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Linking up to these GREAT Parties!

Domestically Speaking – The Power of Paint Party

The Shabby Creek Cottage – Transformation Thursday

Miss Mustardseed – Furniture Feature Friday

Redoux – Friday Link Up Party

Homespun Happenings – Rustic Restorations Weekend

Funky Junk Interiors – Saturday Night Special

Silver Pennies – Silver Pennies Sundays

Knick of Time Interiors – Knick of Time Tuesday

 

a hui hou ~ Shelly

Several years ago I picked up a pair of lamps from J.C. Penney’s.  Here’s what they looked like when I bought them, minus the dust.  Oh… and this is Izzy.  She never misses a photo op.

I loved their lines but I didn’t think about how heavy they’d make the room feel.  We live in a 100 year old home surrounded by towering Maple trees so we don’t get a whole lot of sun to begin with so to combine that with dark furniture and walls just makes it all seem that much more dreary.

I’m in the process of brightening the place up.  Or should I say… I have lots of ideas for things I want to do ~ I haven’t had any time to do the things I want, but am hoping in the next couple of weeks, to knock out a few small projects that have patiently been waiting.  

To be totally honest, I had no idea what I was going to do with them, but I wanted them lighter.  I slapped on a watered down coat of CeCe Caldwell’s Dover White applying it in a VERY sloppy manner.  I started this process at a CeCe Caldwell’s 101 Paint Class but quickly got sidetracked helping everyone with what they were painting so it stayed in it’s sloppy coat for a while. 

At our next Paint Your Own Furniture Workshop, I shared the paint layering technique using Alaskan Tundra.  I slopped this on in the same messy, thin coat manner.

Once the paint was completely dry, I did some wet distressing to expose the original finish and Viola!

It’s so weird ~ Dover White can be used in so many different ways.  It’s more typically used to create a whitewash affect because of it’s translucency.  I used Dover White to dry-brush over the base coat of Pittsburgh Gray on this antique buffet.  Click HERE to see this transformation.

I also layered Dover White more heavily and in a random method on the top here.

Even though I used Dover White in an entirely different manner, I love the subtle affect it has and will definitely be doing this on many more pieces.

I’m not finished with it yet; to truly make it mine, it needs to have some kind of shabby, fringe-y, bead-y bling added to it.  Got any ideas?  I’d love to hear them!!

A good friend of ours gave us this dresser over the summer.  He had received it after cleaning out an old abandoned house and was just about to make kindling for his bon fire out of it when our neighbor mentioned he should check with us first.

I usually pay a hefty amount for my dressers so I have to admit, I was quite tickled to be getting one for free but what the heck was I supposed to do with this?

I don’t like this style.  The rounded edges just throw me on design when I start painting them.

I started playing with pastel CeCe Color, I think I had Alaskan Tundra on it, which is one of my favorite colors btw, but didn’t like it on this ugly piece.  Yuck!  Now I’m acting like a two year old – ha!  Being the grown up that I am, I shoved it back in a corner of our garage and covered it up with a blanket so I could deal with it some other time.

Fast forward a few months and I wanted another medium size dresser to paint in the same color Kissimmee Orange / Traverse City Combo like the other one I did that sold right away.

Hmm… Would a bold color really make that much difference?  After all, it wouldn’t magically change the shape of the round edges that I so disliked but what did I have to lose?

CeCe Caldwell’s Paints to the rescue!  I mixed up a blend of Traverse City Cherry and Kissimmee Orange and started layering it on in a linen type weave to create texture.  Another pet pieve I have is when the drawer fronts are seamed front and center across the drawer.  I wanted to camoflauge the funky veneer pattern on them so I applied three different layers, each time creating a little different texture.

Creating texture can do wonders for things like this.  We teach this in some of our Shizzle Style Paint Workshops featuring CeCe Caldwell’s Paints.

I also share how to paint hardware in our classes, it’s one of life’s simple joys that gives me great pleasure, I know, I’m a dork! 

More on painted hardware here

I jazzed up a wood embellishment (this is during the process…)

She’s sitting pretty along side all the other whimsical colors we’ve dropped off recently to our Shizzle Design space within Not So Shabby in Holland, Michigan.

Stop in and check it out.  We have doubled our size with many new incredible vendors including one of my favorites, a gal who creates the most amazing things from pottery!

Have a GREAT Weekend and all you bloggers out there… Please stop by and link up at: Home for the Holidays 2012 – Hand Painted Christmas right now to link up all your hand painted creations!  

It’s my very first time hosting a linky party and I’d love for all of my blogging buddies to stop on by and give me a Like!