Anything's POSHible was the name our family selected for our blog and "business" because although we mainly enjoy refashioning clothing or working with fabric, it is also a LOVE of mine to redo furniture that may have become blah or boring. It all started with a redo for the hubby's office. We had purchased a lovely entertainment center from an antique store that we wanted to upcycle to make it work for his new work station.
Well, it sat and sat as I tried to work up my previous courage to redo this. Why couldn't I have started on something easy or that really didn't matter if we messed it up....
Finally, we agreed to work together. He is much faster at painting than I am and being that we were going with a chalk paint recipe, it didn't have to be perfect and it dried super quick.
I decided to try making my own version of chalk paint. We used the plaster of paris chalk paint recipe found here. It is basically 1 cup of POP mixed with 1 cup of hot water. Then that mixture is mixed with 3 cups of paint of your choosing. We then painted away, waited for first coat to dry, painted another coat, and let that dry.
Then came the fun part... diSTRESSing. After I got past the fear of messing it up, the distressing actually began to de-stress me! We used 150 and 200 grit sand paper to destress where we wanted the "wear" to show. After all of these steps were finished, I finished our piece by protecting it with a coating on minwax paste finishing wax. This was much less expensive than other choices and I have been thrilled with the results.
All in all, I am so happy that I chose to use chalk paint on hubby's work center and he loves it as well.
So if you have been considering trying chalk paint, I encourage you to take a leap of faith and go big!! You will be glad you did!
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