DIY Style-Chalk Finish Paint

I have these two old stools that my boys use as their dinner chairs, to get something from the counter, to watch Mom make dinner or to help make an espresso drink. ;) These stools were calling for a DIY project. I have been wanting to try this Chalk Finish Paint, the stools were perfect!

I've seen Annie Sloan Chalk paint but it is pricey....so when I saw a way to get a similar look while reading Lowe's Creative Ideas, I was super excited! I really enjoyed this project, it was easy and loved the finished product.

BEFORE

Materials Used:

-Valspar Paint
-Plaster of Paris
-Spray Polyethylene

Tools Needed:

-Paint Brush
-Plastic Bucket

Step 1: 

I mixed 1/3 cup Plaster of Paris with 1/3 cup of water until it is dissolved. Then mix in 1 cup of paint. This was enough to paint both stools.

Step 2:

Clean the surface you will be painting and make sure that it is dry. After your surface is dry then you are ready to paint. (NOTE: you do not have to sand the surface). I did two coats on the non painted stool. The brown stool did require more coats, to ensure the brown paint was completely covered.

Step 3:

I waited 24 hours before spaying the stool with a spray polyurthane. I did two coats. I let dry another 24 hours. I just wanted to be safe!

AFTER

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Glam Your Laundry Room

Accessorizing Your Laundry Room
Although, it may seem like the laundry room is the least important room in the house,
I wanted mine to shine. I felt the need to accessorize it, paint it, and make it glamorous
that way it would make doing laundry more FUN! Just a theory of mine. It's just about complete, still need a counter top on top of washer and dryer and a hook for my ironing board.

My laundry room walls started off with just a Milk Chocolate paint, it was a Pinterest pin that inspired me to do more from the blog dancingcommas. I instantly fell in love with the herringbone design. I had some blue tape and some paint that I had got FREE from a garage sale. So, I started rummaging through the paint and found the right combo for my herringbone wall.

Now, that my wall is complete (and by the way still loving it!), I needed to start putting things back and get the look together. I decided that my accent colors would be a hot pink and a silver metallic. I found small flower vases at a thrift shop, I think I paid  $1 for two. Then, I filled with fake flowers from the Dollar Tree. My Frame is from Home Goods and the white floating shelf got at a garage sale for $1. But the shelf wasn't so great on the floating part, so I bought brackets (on sale) from my favorite store TARGET. They also add the metallic look I was going for, so a win-win.

  

My laundry room is not very large, so I need to maximize on the space I do have. I have my iron in a rack I got at IKEA. I think it was to place iron and ironing board, but my ironing board is too big. But it does the trick. My ironing board at the moment is just leaning against the wall. 

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