Friday night entertainment: painting furniture!

Years ago, when I was young and pretty and employed, on Friday nights the Mister and I would go out to dinner.  We would sometimes meet friends for dinner on these social Friday nights, and wine was frequently imbibed.

Flash forward ten years, and the last five Friday nights have involved me and a gallon of paint and an unsuspecting piece of furniture.  Sadly, there isn't any wine involved.

I repainted my dressers.  For the 400th time.  The high gloss black was too shiny, and the black made the dressers look too heavy.  I painted the dressers Benjamin Moore Camouflage, which despite these pictures, is actually a soft, neutral greenish beige-ish sort of color.  The pictures make it look sorta washed out white, especially against the warm beige walls, but the next house will have white walls and you will all love it then.  It looks very klassy.

I also painted two lamps and my jewelry box navy blue, and the mirror orange. (You can see how everything used to look here. And yes, I know, the bedroom looked much more put together in that post, but bear with me, I'm moving in two weeks, and I haven't gotten everything together for this design yet.)

This mirror will be going in Princess's room, and I wanted the mirror to have a pinkish orange hue.  I attempted that with thin layers of spray paint, but the Mister gave it the thumbs down (see the upper quadrant in the picture below).  I also tried some Krylon Celery spray paint, but it looked terrible. (See the whitish patch on the upper right?) So I painted it orange.

This Friday night I'll be packing!  Next Friday night I'll be moving! Who says I don't know how to have a good time?

I really hope the lighting is better in the next house.  That or I finally figure out how to adjust the aperture.

Favorite nook

Currently my favorite nook in the house is a little bump-out gable on the side of the living room:

My grandmother has a similar chair that I loved growing up.  About 8 years ago, I went antiquing in Red Bank with my aunt Patti.  We rounded a corner, we both saw this chair, we both said "OOOOOH!!!" and ran for it....and she got there first. 

A year later I got married, and my aunt gifted us this chair.  Woohoo!  The seat was in need of repair, and one of my uncles was handy and agreed to fix it for us.  SIX YEARS later, the chair showed up on my doorstep.  (That chair became a running joke every time I saw my uncle.) 

I've since recovered the chair a few times.  Here is a picture taken with my phone, so it looks a bit washed out.  I originally covered it in a turquoise quatrefoil pattern, which looked lovely (I used the same fabric originally in the back of the bookshelves as well), but the turquoise was very very bright, and I was having difficulty making our red leather club chair look like it belonged in the living room. So I switched it out to the current fabric (Robert Allan Kiki Pinata), which has much more red in it and pulls the room together a bit more. 

The pillow and lamp are from Home Goods, the branch side table is from Target.  The curtains are from Ikea.  The curtains have a sheer cutout of a geometric pattern. 

The walls on either side of the bump-out have a stucco texture, and my daughter loves to hide back in the corner, licking the walls.  So i guess its her favorite nook too.