Page 8 fall 2014 Design decor & Restore and Refresh Before After By Lindsey Holt and Coley Arnold of Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market, Photos by NTK Photography 1 Find a solid wood piece of furniture. We found this chair at a garage sale a couple years ago for $5. 2 Pick a paint color. We prefer to use Annie Sloan chalk paint. Chalk paint makes this process quicker and easier because it eliminates the prepping steps. You can paint it on the surface without any sanding or preparation. For this project, we chose the color graphite. 3 Clean off any dust and dirt and then start painting. This chair only required one coat of paint. Since we knew we were going to distress this piece of furniture, one coat of paint is all that was necessary. 4 Add a distressed look. Once the paint is dry, which is quick this time of year in Phoenix, take a piece of sandpaper and lightly rub it along the edges or where the chair would naturally wear. Sand until you have the desired look, take a wet cloth and wipe off any dust. 5 Wax the piece of furniture. We used dark wax, also by Annie Sloan, and rubbed it on the entire piece of furniture using a circular motion with an old cloth. Old worn out t-shirts work great and we usually have them lying around the house. You can always add multiple coats of wax, although for this piece it only took one coat because the wood quickly soaked up the wax. 6 Add some style. For the final step we added a beautiful cushion on the chair. It’s made from an old blanket from Mexico that we picked up at a thrift store, a piece of plywood from The Home Depot and a foam cushion cut to the appropriate size. We wrapped the blanket tightly around the foam and plywood and stapled the blanket on the bottom side to the plywood to hold it in place. When finished, place the cushion on the chair and staple the cushion into place from the bottom side.

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