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Oh My Darling…”Amelia”

By Meagan Tucker on November 5, 2013 in Furniture Makeover

Hand painted in a custom milk paint color chest of drawers with coral floral knobs Amelia 007

Custom soft blue-green milk paint chest of drawers 064

Coral floral knobs Amelia 012

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Months ago I picked up this very old oak chest of drawers at an auction. The oak boards on the top had separated leaving an irregular gap along the top and the drawers would fall forward if you pulled them out just far enough to get into them. I started to make the repairs, but other projects kept creeping in so I outsourced the repairs to a local woodworking company I’ve used previously. About a week later, she was back and ready for me to put my design ideas to the test.

She is hand painted in a custom blue-green milk paint and sealed with 3 coats of satin poly. The color is what I call an uncertain color. The light hits it and sometimes it appears as a shade of blue and other times green. I love those kind of colors. The coral floral knobs add texture and a certain sweetness to the piece. Her drawers are lined with graphic floral paper that I just couldn’t resist. The paper has shades of blue, green, and coral, which compliments the exterior design perfectly. She is my darling “Amelia.”

I wish you could experience how smooth the finish is and yet how the oak grain still comes through. It is seems so natural, almost as if the paint and the wood are one. The wood purists may be angry that I painted this oak piece, but I think the oak is happy again. If I had been blessed with a little girl, I would have loved to decorate her room with this piece.

“Amelia” will be for sale ($450) in my Etsy Shop later this week. Linking up at Miss Mustard Seed’s Furniture Feature Friday.

Dimensions:

42 inches long
18 1/4 inches deep
30 3/4 inches tall

xoxo,

Meg

A blue ombre piece named Tallulah

By Meagan Tucker on August 6, 2013 in Furniture Makeover

Hi y’all! I know it has been a while. Too long for me and hopefully too long for you all! I have enjoyed my summer and I hope y’all have as well. I have been working mostly on custom pieces for others this summer and haven’t had quite the time to work on my own pieces as I had planned. With an active 11 year old at home…things have been hectic and wonderful! I am super blessed, but very excited (and extremely nervous) to finally debut Tallulah today.

I love ombre…ombre hair, ombre nails, ombre walls….ombre furniture…but I wanted to put my own spin on it. When I sketched out my thoughts…I realized my version was risky. The type of risk where people will love it or hate it. Scary risky! I just tried not to dwell on it as I was creating. As I write this post…I’m spazzing out with sick to my stomach feelings. I love her…but this is the world wide web and people can be cruel.

Soooo….Here is where I originally sketched out my idea for her:

I know. I know. I’m not very good at sketching out my ideas. Laugh away! I can always see it in my head clearer than when I try and put my ideas on paper to test it out. Does anyone else have the same issue?

Are you ready to see how she turned out? Here ya go.

Tallulah means “leaping water” and even though this eclectic chest of drawers is also my interpretation of ombre the name still fits. Tallulah is organic, eclectic and down to earth and will be for sale in my etsy shop later today. The bone knobs are beautiful and pop great against the blues. What do y’all think? You can be honest….I just ask for you to be nice/gentle/kind as well as honest.

xoxo

Meg

PS: Any help on sizing my pictures to fill the screen (from side to side) would be greatly appreciated as well! I don’t have photoshop and I’m going crazy trying to figure out how to size them properly.

Linking up at Miss Mustard Seed’s Furniture Feature Friday

Debut: A mustard chest of drawers

By Meagan Tucker on March 13, 2013 in Furniture Makeover

This chest of drawers was in quite a state of disrepair when I found her. Her ninety-seven years had taken a toll on her exterior, but her drawers still opened and closed like new. Quality construction, right there…folks.

After creating a design plan, a lot of prep work, painting and distressing… here she is now. Isn’t she fabulous!

When picking a color, I take into consideration the shape and presence of the individual piece. Many times design inspiration comes from family and friends (as in the turquoise sideboard). The current piece was inspired by my grandmother. Now my grandmother is not quite the same age as this lady, but she has an unexpected inner vigor. Some consider her sassy. I like to think of my grandmother as spicy or zesty, which is exactly what this chest of drawers was missing. Not anymore it’s not. The mustard color makes this piece interesting; then to top it off I threw in a little bit of chippy goodness.

I really think it would fit in any design aesthetic. Here is another picture in a room with a non-white wall.