N Your Dreams

It has been a long time....

since I posted.

Too many projects and not enough time.

Not to mention I have yet learned to use my camera

although I have excellent online lessons.

Obviously, though I say I want to learn to be a good photographer,

I choose to do DIY projects instead of learning my camera.

This is one of the reasons I have not posted.

I got so tired of going to blogs, that I loved, by the way, and

reading apologies for the pictures. Their pictures looked 

GrEaT

to

me

So, I thought, " If theirs aren't good, mine are horrible!"

AnD

they are just that

Horrible

taken

with

an

IPhone

and not

doctored...

so if you dare

read on...

This project started with this...a small refrigerator

which used to reside in the guest room closet.

We are remodeling our kitchen ( among other things)

in our Gilbert home

and I needed to

practice

for I do not want to spend $6,000. and upwards

for a new

panel

refrigerator.

I currently have a Stainless Steel French Door.

I despise Stainless Steel

but my refrigerator is not very old

and sooooooooo

practice was in order...

Practice doing what, you ask?

Painting and Embellishing 

to

get 

rid of the

Stainless 

 Sides of the refrigerator are black. 

Luckily, I had brought to Pinetop some blue, off white, 

and white Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.  I forget the color of the blue.

On the fridge, in the valley, I will be using Duck Egg Blue.

  I warned you the pictures are horrible and do not do justice

to the real thing.

This is the fridge painted with the blue.

I know...it looks white. It was cloudy and the light was awful, even

for IPhone pictures.

  A view of the side

  After painting the fridge blue...and I used 3 coats of paint,

by the way, I white washed the entire fridge. This lets you

see the background blue color a little better.

I mixed equal parts of Old White and Pure White and then added

about the same amount of water. I wiped it away, with a rag, as I painted.

  A view of the front white washed.

 I purchased moldings from Home Depot. We had measured

the lengths we wanted our frames to be so we could

miter the pieces at the store. Since the fridge is small

we used small moldings. I painted them and then antiqued

them with Valspar antiquing glaze. I had not brought my

Annie Sloan waxes up here with me. Oh, I bought the glaze at Lowe's.

  Picture of the glaze. I like to use the glaze out of the lid.

I shake the bottle and then open the bottle. I wet a rag, dip it

in just a tad of the glaze and then wipe it on whatever I am antiquing.

If there is too much to your liking, you can get a clean wet rag

and wipe away more. It is nice to try to leave some of the glaze 

in the grooves of the embellishments.

  I like to work on top of garbage sacks. I also use

gloves ( most of the time ) when using the glaze.

 The above picture shows the front of the fridge and the one below

the side after I had used the antiquing glaze on the fridge.

 I am showing you a level, in case you want to try a

similar project. We used it to make sure our frame pieces were level.

 And here she is completely finished.

We used contact cement to apply the moldings.

A hint....follow the directions....place the glue on

the object and where it is to be glued. Wait the 15 minutes

the directions say to wait.

We did not, at first, and the pieces would not stay. Lesson

learned.

  I glued, with E6000 glue, vintage buttons on two places

on the front of the fridge where there were little pieces that

were not flat.

  Finished Sides

 I lightly used Minn Wax Paste to protect the finish.

I am not really sure this was necessary.

Here it is, out of the closet. Sadly, I moved a vintage 

table into the closet to make room for it. For now,

I could not bare for it to be hidden.

I am pretty sure I will be painting that Stainless Refrigerator,

in Gilbert!

Also, I need to mention the below containers for housing Chalk Paint.

They are wonderful. They keep your paint from drying out and all you

do is squeeze the bottle to get out some paint.

I purchase them at

The Green Table 

in Gilbert, AZ
Visit their blog here.

Lastly, I got my inspiration when I was blog hopping and found Victoria's blog.

Visit her here and you will really enjoy her post!