My Pine Hutch Restoration

There are so many of these pine hutches, cabinets whatever you want to  call them. all varying shades of ‘pine’.

The beauty of these pieces of furniture is once they are chalk style painted they take on a new life.

I used a white matte water base acrylic paint and used the calcium carbonate recipe.

Like many of the others, mine had the tongue and groove backing and door inserts.  I love tongue and groove but decided to not play with it. I did toss up whether to not paint top of the unit base or paint it. As you can see, painting won out.  Maybe next time I will use different techniques, this restoring was in my very early days.

After the painting was finished the top doors just didn’t look right so I painted the frames in the Wattyl Murano, it was just about the same colour as the coloured glass tulips, and used the doors as features for the walls beside the cabinet.

After finding a few things that lended themselves to the Murano red my wall was complete.

The canisters on the top are pottery, glazed but took the chalk style paint very well, there was a couple of terracotta and pottery pieces that also looked good with the dark red plus the two planter/ornament stands.

  The knobs started their life as the blue colour over there on the left…

And have finished as the antique gold by using the Rub and Buff  and I really love these on the cabinet.