Chalk Painted Wooden Stool
While helping my client get her house ready to sell, I’ve been looking through her furniture and decor for items to use for staging. She had this old stool that had seen a lot of wear and tear. I asked her if I could paint it and use it to bring some color into her master bathroom.
She agreed to let me take it home, and soon we had a Chalk Painted Wooden Stool to use for staging!
Materials:
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Instructions:
Lightly sand the stool to remove any dirt and rough spots. This gives the wood a bit of a tooth for the paint to grip to.
Use any chalk-like paint to paint your stool (I used Farmhouse Paint in Dijon.) Brush the paint on with the grain. Start from the bottom first.
Flip the stool over to paint the top and outside legs.
Let the stool dry completely.
When the paint is dry, use the palm sander to distress the stool.
Brush on furniture wax to seal the stool and wipe off any excess with a clean rag.
And you are finished!
Enjoy a beautiful colorful Chalk Painted Wooden Stool.
Do you have a little stool that could use a splash of color? Use a bit of chalk-like paint to give it a new look.
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I bought a used painted chest. I sanded it and used green chalk paint on the sides and painted the rest in white. Then I waxed it lightly. I don’t like it! Can I use another color chalk paint over what I did and re do the whole thing?
Sallie, you’ll have to remove the wax layer first. You can try to remove it with paint thinner. If that doesn’t work, you’ll have to use a stripper to remove the wax.
Super cute! I love pieces like this because they are so versatile and can be used in any room. I’m sure your client will be able to use it anywhere in her new home too!
Little stool looks so nice. I really like it.. Thank you for this post!!
I loved the look. Where do you purchase chalk paint from. Does Benjamin moore sell it?
Thanks, Deb
You can order online from http://www.countrychicpaint.com/ or buy it in small boutique type shops. Or Valspar now mixes their own Chalk Paint line at Lowe’s.
This is a darling little stool & yes, I’ve done some paint chalk projects around here. I still love them all.
Thank you for this post!!!! I was going through a re decorating process a couple of weeks ago, my husband and I wanted to clean the house and re decorate, we wanted to transform the bathroom into a spa to completely enjoy the light and all the beautiful features that the room has but we had such a chaos there! we had to take everything out to start to check what was worth to keep and what has to go away, it was hard at the very first start because some things had some emotional value, but at the end totally worth it, having your space clear, it feels like if you can be free, I love to have our new bathroom as it is now and I feel we are enjoying it much more, is hard to make some changes no matter how little they are, but is necessary and most of the time completely worth it and I want to do the same with the rest of the house and I was checking this idea for my living room and I really like it and I feel I can do it by myself!! so thank you for the advises!!