Happy Happy New Year!! I’m so ready to take on a new year and new projects!! So here’s the first one for 2013!!

{Please excuse the pictures it has been really dark and rainy here and hard to capture the true tone of the piece!!}

I got this buffet literally a year ago.  It was about the time that I was doing this one for a client and I absolutely LOVED hers.  I loved the height and everything about it.  It was cold and I was painting in my dining room.  I just happened to have a hole the very wall this buffet could fit because I had sold mine.  So I started the hunt and came up with this beauty.  It came out of a beautiful home and they were buying a “painted” piece to match their new set… oh if they’d only known what I could do with it.  But sometimes this information is better left unknown!! At least this time!!

So lonely she sat there for a year… bare.  I loved her but she was really dry and had a few places that had been chipped off.  I didn’t want to go thru the trouble of refinishing her because I had plans!! But I got busy and plans kept changing.  I just couldn’t commit.  Then I brought her into my kitchen area and I really couldn’t commit.

But with 2013 here, I have decided to be sure and paint a few of my projects too!! Schedule myself in!!

The kids went back to school and I did a happy dance with paint brush in hand!! I started with a basecoat of La Craie Cobblestone.  And then painted in the details of the doors with Confederate Grey.  I wanted it a bit more creamy so I mixed my favorite combo- Baguette and Magnolia.  It truly makes the most neutral cream ever!! It’s got the green and grey undertones from the Baguette and the Magnolia just brings it down a few shades.  I love it!!

I didn’t tape off the stripes… I really like whimsical rather than calculated and defined… Plus distressing the edges helps crooked lines… right?? Now if the clouds could go away for a while I could get better pictures but you get the idea!!

Thanks for stopping by.  I’d love to hear what you think! It felt good to have a paint brush in hand again.  Come back again tomorrow and I’ll share with you a little Le Craie Sugar Cane!!