Child's rocking chair painted with oops paint.

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Painted Child’s Rocking Chair

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I was having some terrific luck with garage sales and thrift store searches. With such success, leaves a garage full of potential projects.  One of these projects was a sweet little wooden child’s rocker I came across at an estate sale for a song. It was in excellent condition but just a little too dark for my taste.  Hmm, what should I do to give a child’s rocking chair a fresh look?  You got it, paint it!

Child"s rocker

Child”s rocker

 

Let me back up a minute and explain my thoughts on paint and painting. My ventures in painting started with using Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint  (MMSMP). I began with painting a very outdated 80’s buffet and after I saw what it could do for a tired piece of furniture, I was hooked. From that point on I painted a large hutch, a pie table, and a cute side table with MMSMP.  After having much success with milk paint, I was introduced to chalk paint, Annie Sloan  Chalk Paint. Chalk Paint requires no sanding or priming in most cases. Just pick your color and go.  With chalk paint I have painted a bench, a set of nesting tables and a visually damaged cedar chest. Please take a look and see how they all turned out.

Behr Paint

Behr Paint

Another type of paint I have discovered and enjoy painting with is “oops” paint. This is paint that has been miss tinted when being mixed and therefore drastically reduced in price. Usually there is a specific location or shelf in the paint department that houses this type of paint. I often take a quick peek in this area “just in case”. One never knows if a great color will be reduced.

A lesson learned from purchasing this type of paint, however, is only buy quality paint in the “oops” form. I know,  I just realized how silly that just sounded.  Let’s just say I had a not so good experience painting my front door with an off brand.  This unfortunate mishap was shared in a previous post.

$2 Oops Paint

$2 Oops Paint

I was overjoyed when I came upon finding a Behr brand “oops” in a pink shade. I never paint with pink but I was not going to pass this $2 quart by. I will find something… And there it was the wooden child’s rocking chair

After a quick sanding and 2 coats of this paint, it looked pretty good.  The beauty of this paint is that its primer and paint in one, easy peasie. Wait!, I wasn’t done.  With a couple of stencils place here and there, it was finished, a refreshed painted child’s rocking chair.

Pink Painted Child's Rocker

Pink Painted Child’s Rocker

I tell you, paint can do wonders to something tired but still has life.  What have you painted that has received new life?  I would love to see!

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