Chalk Paint Make-Over

Hello Darlings,

 We wanted to share one of our recent projects with you guys, and spent less than $10 doing it!

Materials:

• 2 old chairs 
• chalk paint 
• fabric softener 
• gold glaze paint

The chairs were from an old living room set that were currently being used for a coat rack, and random household items. They had a flat fabric with a green and beige striped design. We did not want to spend a lot of money on them and had seen my mom re-do a couple of chairs in her living room with chalk paint so we decided to give it a try. For the chalk paint we used the brand from Wal-Mart called Waverly, in the color Ballet Slipper, and emptied the whole bottle into an old yogurt container. Then we mixed 1 cup of fabric softener into the paint (this will help the paint to not have that hardened feel to it after it dries). You can use any type of softener, but for this project we had Downy in our laundry room, so that is what we used. After you mix the two ingredients you are ready to paint your fabric! Honestly, one coat of paint covered the original pattern on the chairs, but just to be on the safe side, we gave it two coats. For the glaze on the wooden trim of the chairs we used a gold glaze paint that had been in our work room for forever (so old the label was gone), but you can use any other chalk paint, or any gold paint that you like. 

And that's it, the chairs were done and ready to work! 

P.S.If you are considering trying this, we recommend you testing this project out on a scratch piece of fabric, one similar to the one you will be painting, just to see how you will like it. Add more or less fabric softener to your paint depending on how soft you want the fabric, and most importantly have fun (cliche, but true)!

XOXO,

It's Vintage Darling

Charlotte

Hello Darlings,
So, a couple of months ago, a friend of ours sent us a picture of a chair that was sitting next to a dumpster that someone had thrown out. Being the amazing friend she is, she offered to scoop it up and place it in the back of her 2004 Chevy Colorado, and held onto it until we could pick it up from her. When we saw it in person we could not believe how amazing the wood frame on the chair was, of course the pattern of the fabric was hideous, but Oh My,the legs! They were slender and had a slight curve at the bottom, sure there was a little chip missing off of one of the legs, but it just added a little extra character.

We then started planning how to bring our new piece back to life!, Most of our pieces had the buttons on the backs of them, so we were wanting this one to have a different vintage look. We stumbled upon a style called "channel" backing, which looks kind of like a shell (sorry that is the only way we can describe it).

Since it was September, we wanted to plan for the Christmas holiday coming up, so we agreed on a red velvet fabric, which we found at Hobby Lobby. We got 4.5 yds @ $14.99/yd = $67.46 (plus tax) then applied our 40% off coupon (click to print), making our total to over a little $40 (yaaayy savings!)

About 4 weeks  and $150 later, we got our new baby back from the upholster, and oh man, she looked good!!

Thankfully, we started receiving calls and messages to book the piece for holiday photo sessions. So our new chair, which we decided to name Charlotte, got to work!
Up to date, she has been apart of 8 Christmas photo sessions, 2 graduation photos, 1 vintage themed birthday party, and her highest honor, an engagement, we will totally tell you about that later. Maybe next time......

After a Christmas photo shoot

Graduation photo shoot. Photo by: Claudia Farr

action shot from the engagment! Photo by: Cindy Rendon

XOXO,
It's Vintage Darling

P.S. special thank you to Marah for saving our chair that day by the dumpster!

Natalie Wood

Hello Darlings,
   We wanted to formally introduce our newest sofa piece in our collection, Natalie Wood.  Like many Hollywood stars, she has the perfect figure, with curves in all the right places! She stands at 3'7'', a width of 2'8'', and her length measuring 5'7''. She has a dark brown, mahogany wood frame and is draped with moss colored green fabric with a back rest that is covered with over fifty buttons.

Even though we drove over 400 miles to get her back to our showroom, we were blessed because we did not even have to change anything about it, and only paid $400 (cheaper than any sofa so far!). We were skimming the sofas on Craigslist, (pretty much where we find all our pieces) and happened to find this one up for sale in San Antonio, Texas. We gassed up and made our way towards SPURS Nation, excited to pick up our new addition.

When we got to the seller's house, and saw the sofa in person, we instantly knew this piece was meant for our collection. We love something with good history and this couch had it. The lady who was selling it ( probably in her late 30's) said it belonged to her grandmother, and acquired it after she passed away. She said she remembers it being in her grandma's spare room, covered in plastic, being preserved, for what we think, for us! We promised her it would be in good hands and packed it up and made our way home.

Photo by: Ivan Ramirez Photography

Of course, then came the fun part, finding her name. We scrolled through old Hollywood female actress names and tried to see which one matched our sofa. Since she had a "woods-y" feel to her because of her colors we thought the West Side Story star's name would be fitting.....And just like that, a star was born (haha ok, kind of cliche).

xoxo,
It's Vintage Darling