Grain Sack Inspired

Yep, I did it. I painted the dropleaf table. It really was in bad shape.

1. chipped corner

2. broken leg repaired poorly

3. more chipping

4. end piece is not original. It is a piece of thin board an poorly stained. The leafs don't even have supports to hold them up.

This is the condition it was in when I bought this table so I don't feel bad about painting it.

I painted it with Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint in Grain Sack.

I did no prep work and was hoping for lots of peeling, but it really didn't happen again, but with some sanding it looked okay in the end.

This was a quick project I did around three weeks ago and I had no intention on adding the stripes until a couple days ago.

This grain sack was my inspiration piece.

Prep tools needed.

Mr. Savvy helped me make sure the tape went on straight. I seem to make things crooked. We made the stripes wider than the ones on the grainsack since the table is a much larger scale.

I painted the stripes with ASCP in Primer Red that I had on hand. I did two coats and it dried quickly and then I pulled the tape off.

All of the table had been sealed with the hemp oil except I forgot to do this leaf and figured I would just do it after the stripes were added. Well, the tape pulled some of the paint off on this leaf, but I actually liked the very worn look except I had to sand out the perfectly straight lines the tape had left. The rest of the table that had the oil added to it did fine with the tape. None of that paint pulled off. After I finished sanding I finished it with the hemp oil.

I sanded the stripes so they would look a little worn and faded like a grain sack.

It was just kind of boring before the idea of adding stripes came to me. These ideas happen quite a bit, you know.