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I wanted to test this project a few times before I told you how life changing it was. It IS life changing and now you are in on the secret! Painting furniture has long been one of my favorite pastimes. It is always amazing to me how a little love can totally change a piece from horrifying to awe inspiring. My go to technique has always been spray painting because every time I tried to paint with normal paint it was a HORRIBLE experience. Now, I know that there are people that swear by good brushes, foam rollers, and Floetrol and I am sure that they work for some…but I have never been able to master the paint from a can technique…until now. First lets chat about the 3 most common problems when it comes to painting.Also the acronym for brush strokes is BS. Just putting that out there. Brush strokes happen when your paint dries before it has a chance to level. The stiffer (I am just going to say it, and crappier) your brush the worse it is going to look. Chip brushes are literally your worst nightmare when painting furniture.
But even with expensive brushes I have never been able to paint something brush stroke free.Flashing is unevenness in a paint finish sheen. It happens for a few reasons. If you are using cheap paint, especially cheap paint that has a high sheen, trying to get too much paint out of a roller, not leaving a wet edge, and rolling all willy nilly. Flashing is extremely noticeable when light reflects off of a piece. White foam rollers are like a shifty teenager in a trench coat on the sidelines of the homecoming football game. They are perfectly poised to ruin your crowning moment. Also foam rollers=light texture. Not enough to start over but FOR SURE enough to make you want to kick the dresser every time you walk by it. 3. Stickiness After Drying. Have you guys ever been in contact with a piece of furniture that never fully cured? It is eternally sticky to the touch. This happened once to a piece that was in my Mother In Law’s house. It was a four poster bed that was painted high gloss black and it was unusable because it was so sticky.
This can happen for a few reasons, your paint could be crappy quality, there wasn’t adequate dry time between layers. It seems like the higher the sheen, the more you risk this being a factor. Plain and simple, latex wall paint is not ideal for furniture. So do you want to know what the secret combo is for a perfect paint job? Sherwin Williams Pro Classic and a Mohair Roller. I kid you not, you will never go back once you have tried this combo. Start by prepping you piece with a light sanding and a good cleaning. (By light sanding i mean the way you would wipe down a wall) This is the most important part so listen and listen good. Roll it on with only a few passes, I am talking 3. Don’t worry so much about coverage, you can do more than one coat. Just make sure that there aren’t any globby areas. Now put your roller down and walk away. When the paint starts to dry and you mess with it, it is just a recipe for disaster and will always look worse when you are done.
And then you will hate yourself. This is a freshly rolled drawer vs. one that has had time to dry, can you see how much the paint relaxes and evens out? I have never had something work so well time and time again. You guys, this is the real deal.Don’t hug me too tight when you see me next. I love my guts intact. Outside red metal chairs 35$ each chair or 60$ for the pair some paint peeling on back they were painted callFabric DeckchairLovely DeckchairGarden DeckchairDashing DeckchairsTextile Design IdeasEnglish DeckchairGarden ChairsDeck ChairsChairs 300Forwardlawn chair, I gotta say, this is my favorite and I think about pinching my fingers some....Aggressive metal furniture by the designer Paul Evans is not easy to categorize.“His work is stunningly beautiful, stunningly ugly, stunningly tacky, stunningly sophisticated,” the performer Lenny Kravitz, who collects Evans pieces, says in a new documentary. The film will play at the first major Evans retrospective, which opens on March 1 at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa.In the show, “Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism,” and its catalog (from Arnoldsche), the designer comes across as gregarious, inventive, tireless and troubled.
His showrooms and workshops in and around New Hope, Pa., let customers see just a few rough sketches of their orders in advance. His manufacturing techniques sometimes emitted toxic fumes and had to be abandoned. His short-lived Manhattan branch called the Think Tank was a costly failure. The day after he retired, in 1987, at 55, he suffered a fatal heart attack.“In the end,” his former assistant manager Wink Nessa says in the film, “there was too much drinking and not enough attention paid to the shop.” She adds, “His demons toward the end became too great.” Evans had spent his childhood in Newtown, Pa., where his father ran a Quaker school’s English department, and his mother trained as a painter. (Evans’s birthplace is often listed as Newtown, but the new book notes that he was actually born in Trenton.) He trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit and then briefly worked as a metalworker demonstrating techniques at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.Around 1955, he set up his own business, and went through phase after phase of favorite styles and materials.
He collaborated with his friend Phillip Lloyd Powell on furniture combining gilded and gnarled wood and metal filigree, then started covering cabinets with raw metal star bursts and knobs. He experimented for a while with mirrored metal and then wove electronics into furniture, so that doors and shelves could be moved around by remote control.His patrons tended to be intellectuals, including Norman and Rina Indictor, collectors of Islamic art, and the design gallerist and historian Helen W. Drutt English; they are lending pieces to the Michener show. The Manhattan furniture gallerist Todd Merrill, who produced the new Evans documentary with his wife, Lauren, said he has had trouble persuading original owners over the years to part with the massive and thorny objects. “There’s such emotional attachment to the pieces,” Mr. Merrill said during a tour of his own gallery, surrounded by Evans cabinets, lamps, frames, tables and bedsteads. (Prices range from $3,000 to $300,000 each.)
In the 1990s, the Evans market cooled: Mr. Merrill said he used to rescue vintage works from trash piles. Evans himself discarded much of his archive, even family memorabilia. (Evans had two sons, Paul and Keith, with his first wife, the designer Elaine Bebarfald; after they divorced, he married the dress shop owner Louise Weiler, who was known as Bunny.) Evans’s studio manager, Dorsey Reading, would retrieve his tossed-out paperwork. “Yours truly was the garbage picker,” Mr. Reading said in an interview. He has lent the Michener his documents and about 20 works by Evans, including a 1960s aluminum ashtray that looks like splashing water and a 1970s bar cabinet with bronze semicircular doors that seem to have been gouged and clawed.The Michener has acquired major works by Evans and his circle in the last few years. At the Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, N.J., the museum bought a pair of Evans’s 1970s cardboard chairs for $3,900, a 1950s walnut fireplace from Powell’s showroom for $96,000 and a 1970s serrated doorway from Powell’s house for $54,9000.
An Evans bronze cabinet at Mr. Kravitz’s Paris townhouse, a 12-foot stretch of flanges and blades, was deemed too unwieldy to travel for the retrospective. (Mr. Merrill had bought it for $45,000 at Rago in 2006.)The Sebastian & Barquet gallery in Manhattan, which is taking half a dozen Evans works to the Tefaf show next month in Maastricht, the Netherlands, has lent a scalloped steel sideboard to the Michener; the piece cost $26,250 at Rago last fall.“Evans has a really interesting trajectory,” the gallery’s executive director, Tara DeWitt, said in an interview, “from very craft-based in the ‘50s to very flashy in the ‘70s and ‘80s.”On March 2, Rago will offer about 30 Evans works, with estimates from $1,500 for a walnut backgammon table to $35,000 for a ridged metal and slate cabinet about eight feet long.VINTAGE GUITAR SALEPractically every variation on the basic double-gourd guitar shape will go on view in Manhattan in the next few weeks, ahead of a sale of about 270 acoustic guitars, mostly made in the early 1900s, at Guernsey’s on April 2 and 3.
The consignor, the digital-music magnate Hank Risan, culled the auction lots from his holdings of about 700 guitars acquired in the last three decades. He had intended to set up a guitar museum near his home in Santa Cruz, Calif., but has since abandoned his plan. The instruments are all playable, although they have rarely been taken out of storage. “We would periodically maintain them,” Mr. Risan said in an interview.The Guernsey’s material, he added, “stands on its own sufficiently as a museum collection.” But he has kept some treasures, including an 1830s guitar that belonged to Mark Twain. About 50 of the Guernsey’s lots, with estimates into the six figures, were made at the 180-year-old C. F. Martin & Company in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. One of Martin’s first products was the Mark Twain guitar. (A recent book, “Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C. F. Martin and His Contemporaries,” from Hal Leonard Books, documents the manufacturer’s history, as does a yearlong show now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)