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Tavern Green Shabby Chic Desk
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You really can't beat a $5 garage sale desk like this one. OK, maybe if it was free, but I still couldn't pass it up for that price! It needed a little loving and Old Fashion Milk Paint was the perfect paint for the job!
Here's the before:
I think there was about 10 coats of paint on this thing and half of the drawers were impossible to open. Thank goodness for the hub’s strong muscles 😉
This was my first time using OFMP and I was super excited to try it out. I’m surprised how quickly I was able to pick a color, because I’m the worst at making decisions. But Tavern Green just jumped out at me and it’s a color I’ve never used before. Luckily they don’t have mint otherwise you know I wouldn’t have been able to resist 😉
Since I didn’t use the bonding agent, I wasn’t quite sure how the paint was going to adhere to the parts of the desk that I didn’t sand all the way down. Here’s what it looked like after one coat:
I probably could have added even more powder to thicken it up because I ended up doing 4 coats to get the coverage I wanted. That’s definitely one difference I notice with Milk Paint vs. Chalk Paint. Milk Paint seems to be a bit thinner if you follow the measuring directions, whereas Chalk Paint is already pretty thick and creamy.
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Published June 17th, 2015 1:56 PM
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Miriam Illions on Jun 19, 2015
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Darrielle Tennenabum on Jun 20, 2015
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