A Finished Project

I finished a project for All That Jazz recently. A china hutch from an
estate sale we bought a couple of months age. Poor thing had to wait for
the weather to warm up for me to paint it and the weather here in the
Pacific Northwest is moving toward summer weather at a snails pace this
year.

Once again I forgot the BEFORE shot. So I'll paint you a picture, your
basic orangie/gold stain from the 50's, yellow glass doors with a circle
pattern and you throw in some sticky plastic doilies lining the shelves
and that just about covers it. Hand sanding it was NOT fun. I'm
going to have to invest in a little hand held mouse sander before
my arm falls off.

It had good bones though and was in great sturdy shape.
So I slapped some paint on her...

took out the ugly yellow glass and replaced it with some pretty toile
material. My original plan was to use burlap. Then AFTER I already had
the lady cup the burlap, I saw this on the shelf and had to have it. It's
funny how things can evolve like that. Suddenly she took a definite
French Country turn.

The hardware got painted out in black. Does anyone have any good tips
for painting hardware? I wasn't really happy with the way they turned out,
I think they are going to chip easily and I even sprayed a sealer on them.

Please excuse the towel, It's placed there to keep it from scratching until we
can get it moved to the booth.

Do you all remember this pretty little picture I showed you? I had no
idea what to price it at. I asked for some help from our shop owner since
you ladies were as clueless as me. I ended up pricing it at $29 and it was
sold a couple of days later and went home to England with it's new owner!
So it was either priced just right or WAY too low! Who knew.