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Welcome to my blog. My name is CT. I have started this blog to record my travels with chalk paint. Hopefully it will help someone else out there to take their first step into repurpose, restore and relove some of their furniture that they have been saying ‘one day’ about.

Getting to know chalk paint has given me the motivation to get started. Like with this piece below, I have been saying for so, so many years that I would do something with. It had a dark stain and a couple of coats of shellac. All that meant lots of prep work and time wise just didn’t happen.

I haven’t documented everything I have done, well I have some before and after photos  but not the steps in between  I had no intention of  starting a blog then just wanted to get going and see how this paint worked.  I will try to show the steps along the process from now on.

The thing is, chalk painting is so fast, depending on the size of the piece   with most pieces when you are finished the first coat where you started is dry so you can put on the second coat.

There are three steps with the furniture restoration no matter what finish you are wanting. These are –

Prepare, Paint (stain), Protect.

Prepare – repair if needed and clean thoroughly

Paint – 2-3 coats

Protect –  wax

Waxing is the final step when you use chalk paint. You can use the poly protection if you wish but start with the wax first. The look and feel of the piece of furniture  is just lovely!!