Big Daddy and I hope all of ya’ll have had a wonderful, safe and healthy Christmas. We spent a lot of time with friends and family while they were in town. As our families are scattered around western North Carolina and we find ourselves on the road quite a bit during the Season. Several years ago we began to develop a Christmas Day that is just ours alone. We wake up on December 26th, creep downstairs in our respective feet pajamas, make coffee, light a fire and try to get our eyes open. All of this occurs very peacefully and slow. We take our time opening our gifts from each other, listen to traditional choral music and have the exact same breakfast …….. every year: Sausage & egg casserole, cheese grits and cinnamon rolls with icing. When we are done with breakfast we curl up in our big chairs and watch Patrick Stewart’s version of A Christmas Carol. About 3/4’s of the way through the movie we won’t be able to hold our eyes open so we head upstairs and take a much needed nap………..
Ya’ll I slept for 3 hours this year…….. and two hours the next day.
In years past I stop painting the week before Thanksgiving and pick it back up again the first week of January. I haven’t really missed painting during that break but this year was quite different. I actually finished the piece I am sharing with ya’ll today last week.
Just go ahead and give me ALL of the antique drum tables right now and get it over with :))
Here is the before shots:
As stuff I drag home goes, this one was in really good shape.
It had all of the toe caps, the original hardware and didn’t wobble at all.
I painted the drum table in two coats of Fusion Mineral Paint’s Picket Fence. It is a clean, bright white. As a side note Picket Fence is the only color in the Fusion line that has required more than 2 coats for me so far.
I did use a brass cleaner on this Hepplewhite pull to jazz it up a bit.
This particular mahogany top has the most amazing grain ! Notice all the flaming? I don’t find a lot of that with mahogany tops. I used Minwax Jacobean to try and defuse the red in the wood. Jacobean is really great for that.
I found these Peonies in Trader Joe’s ya’ll! They have been beautiful for about two weeks now.
If you are local this will be down at the shop in a couple of days !
Paige
it’s lovely and nice to see how painting it brings out the engraving in the legs that so otherwise is so visible.
A merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year to you and yours (furry felines included)!