Garden and Easel Art Studio

  1950's Zenith Radio and Cobra-Matic Record Player Console Cabinet 36"Hx34"Wx16"D Sold! I was so excited to work on this one. A gift from my mother after she had just bought it straight out of an old barn. It was dusty and dirty, but I could see its potential. It's a smaller piece so I knew I could go wild on this one. I wanted a crazy Bohemian look so I used a spray bottle technique I learned from The Turquoise Iris . Painting furniture is so much more fun when you just go for it!  And that is exactly what I did.  Gay Lena Before and After Steps I used to get the Bohemian look Yummy colors! Check out this ad for the orginal Cobra-Matic Record Player . Top Detail The radio and record player still have all of their working parts, but I was never brave enough to plug it in.  I imagine a lot of Elvis and Beatles records were played on this. SOLD! For sale for $150 Contact me at 931-488-...

Circa 1980's French Provincial Style Chest Original Wood Veneer Top Scrollwork and details highlighted using dark wax Take a look and see how I transformed a  "not so pretty" chest of drawers into this  beautiful turquoise work of art. The piece was in really great shape and needed very little sanding... I sanded the top so the darker stain would penetrate the wood grain. I rubbed vaseline on the edges of the drawers and on various areas of the chest to make sanding and distressing a lot easier. SalvagedInspirations has a great tutorial on how to use vaseline to distress furniture. Leg detail before paint and dark wax With one coat of paint you can see the vaseline coming through. The second coat of paint covered up the vaseline.... A little sanding reveals where the vaseline was placed.  I sealed the front and sides with clear wax. The top is stained with Minwax® PolyStain in Expresso. It l...