I’m so sorry we haven’t posted all week. We’ve been spending every waking minute painting furniture to stock our new booth. I’ve hesitated to post because I fear you may be getting tired of furniture posts. But since we haven’t had time for anything else, I thought we’d share another one anyway and hopefully you enjoy seeing them!
We decided to makeover this console table with Annie Sloan “Graphite” paint. You can see from the closeup picture it had a crackle finish, but it was just on the flat surface of the top and bottom shelf and not all over the entire piece.
Our original plan was to use a paint stripper to remove it, but since the crackle wasn’t on very thick we decided to try sanding it and it worked perfectly.
Next, we gave it a couple coats of Annie Sloan “Graphite”. Graphite is an interesting color. It’s definitely not black, more of a slate or charcoal color. While the paint is wet, it even looks a bit blue, but it dries to more of a dark charcoal gray.
We painted this graphic from The Graphics Fairy. If you’re not familiar with the The Graphics Fairy, it’s an amazing website with tons of unique and vintage graphics you can use for free. It’s our favorite place to find graphics for our pieces.
After painting the graphic, we lightly sanded the entire top and bottom shelf to distress it a bit and soften the edges of the graphic. Then we sealed it with a couple coats of clear wax. You can find our detailed instructions for painting graphics on furniture here.
What do you think of the graphite color? Would you use it to paint an entire piece?
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We LOVE the color and your graphics! Y’all are doing an amazing job. We look forward to your graphics tutorial. You should be so proud of how quickly your painting skills have developed as well as your booth success! Congrats!
You always leave the sweetest comments! Thank you so much Vicki and Jenn!
It’s beautiful Amy – I love the graphic you choose too. What would us furniture reimaginers do without the Graphic’s Fairy, eh! I love ASCP Graphite and have used it a lot, mostly as a base color but I’m loving it as the main color on your table! In the pictures it looks like it has a white wash of some kind. Did you wax this piece with clear wax or white wax?
Thank you for asking about the white wash look, Marie! I should have mentioned it in the post. It’s because we sanded it. We actually freaked out at first because as soon as we hit it with a sanding block it was all white scratches and looked terrible. It reacted completely differently to sanding than any other color we’ve used. We decided to keep going with it since we’d already started but once it was wiped off and clear waxed it looked quite lovely with just a hint of a that whitish looking effect. We only sanded the top and bottom shelves, not the legs or anywhere else, and it didn’t look odd or mismatched at all. And I agree, I wouldn’t know what to do without the Graphics Fairy!! I’m so glad you stopped by!
Ah ha, so it wasn’t just my aging eye sight! LOL I really like the affect of the white coming through as it adds more dimension. Don’t you just love it when those oops turn into blessings in disguise!
Ha! Nope, your eyes aren’t failing you :). Oops that end up working are so much better than oops that just look like a big fat oops. I’ve had plenty of both :).
LOOOOOVE it! I’m dying to hear how things are going with your booth! SO excited for you ladies!
Thank you! The booth is going well, but it’s much harder to fill the space than I thought it would be! If we were smart we would have stockpiled a bunch of pieces and been ready to fill it before we started but I guess that’s not how we roll :).
This is beautiful! I can never have enough furniture posts. Espicially from you ladies, you inspiree eveu time. I would love a detailed post in how you get the graphic on the furniture. I will be looking for that!
Thanks so much, Emily!!
Amy, love this piece. The Graphite paint color. Y’all do beautiful work and I can’t wait to see your tutorial on how you apply the graphics! I’ll look forward to seeing more on my facebook page. Good luck on your booth.
Thank you so much, Donna!!
W.O.W. Love the color and the table! Pinning! Looking forward to seeing the graphic post too!
Thanks so much, Laurie!!
This is gorgeous! Love that graphic too. Great find.
It is beautiful Amy! Totally a color I’d be scared to pick but il loving it and thinking which pie pace I could paint that color iin our home! Can’t wait to see the graphics tutorial!have a great week, friend!
This is amazing!! I love the color and the graphics! This is a gorgeous piece <3
This is such an adorable table. I am getting ready to start making over a similar one. It’s original color is even very similar. Such a beautiful job! I can’t wait to see your post on how to paint graphics. I’ll definitely be using it in the future!
Thanks so much! I was going to post the how to paint graphics post this week but decided at the last minute to include more pictures. Look for it next week..I’m planning to post it Wednesday :). Thanks so much for stopping by!
Lovely and so rich looking! And I never tire of furniture transformations, so I’m happy to keep seeing them! 😀
Thank you!! And I agree, I love seeing what other people do with furniture! Thanks so much for stopping by :).
I bought your console table for my guest room at the Peddlars Mall. I love it!
Shannon
Shannon, thank you so much for stopping by and letting us know! We’ve only been selling at Peddler’s for a few weeks and you bought the second piece of furniture we’ve ever sold. We’re working hard to get more fun pieces in our booth and we can’t tell you how much we appreciate that you shopped our new little booth space! Hope you have a great week, and if you ever happen to catch us restocking at Peddler’s please stop and say hi!