Weathered Gray Table With Fusion Mineral Paint & Giveway

There are a couple things going on in this post today.

A blog hop with projects from some awesome bloggers, a Fusion Mineral Paint giveaway for you to enter, and there is my project table that had a rough start when it entered the family.

Daughter #1 picked it up at a garage sale, last day - last minute of a city wide shindig.

She took it home to live with her and her husband because at the time they were freshly moved in at a new home and had no kitchen table.

The table with four chairs was $50 bucks.

I mentioned I could paint it up for her, but she probably knew if it came to my house for a paint job it might be two years before it went back to hers, so they lived with it the way it was.

Two years later, right before they jetted off for their Jamaican vacation last month, it was loaded onto a trailer that her brother was driving down the road to my house - perfect timing right?

No.

Unbeknownst to her I had other plans at her house while she was sipping rum.

I planned to work on her laundry room to surprise her (we did, and she was).

So for the next two weeks her table sat in my entry way waiting for some inspiration and time.

Her instructions for the table were simple, "do whatever you want to it".

Whatever I wanted, included using the complimentary Fusion Mineral Paint I received  - three colors to turn it into a weathered wood looking top.

Sterling, Ash, and Soapstone from the new Michael Penney Collection.

No one mentioned to Daughter #1 that on the way to our house the table flipped over and got all gouged up in the trailer.

The gouges didn't bother me, but they bothered her dad, so he sanded down the top, added some wood putty and fixed the scratches and bites that were taken out of the top.

I was hoping for a bit of an industrial metal look that would tie in with their stainless steel appliances.  I also wanted a dark contrast to their light wood floor.

I concocted a watered down version of each of the colors by mixing them separately in a plastic cup.

I brushed them on in layers till I had a look I liked.

The paints went on nice and smooth with different tones and thickness depending on my recipe/ratio of water to paint.

I used the Ash as the back ground base color.

I had taken out some Fusion Gilding Paste in metallic silver, but in the end liked the look without it so didn't go that route.

The base of the table is a custom mix dark stain that will contrast nice with her flooring.

There are four chairs to this table, I stained one and sent her a text that I was going to let her do the other three.

It was probably the agony of remembering my own never ending dining room chair painting drama that made me not want to do all of hers.

The final step was to brush on Fusion Tough Coat Sealer which will give the table the added protection it needs to have plates knocking around on it.

Below is how the top looked before I sanded down all the layers of paint and brushed on the two coats of sealer.

Before Tough Coat Sealer

Sanding it took the edge off the brushed on paint colors and the sealer sort of blended in all the tones and brought out more of the weathered look I was going for.

All the little metal doo dads were added back on, I stained those too.

So now, how about Fusion Mineral Paint gives YOU a chance to win some of their products to try for yourself..........

 

There are three ways to enter.......

1. Visit Fusion Mineral Paint HERE  and in my comment section name a couple colors that fit into the color palette of your home for an entry.

2. For a 2nd entry, follow Fusion Mineral Paint on Instagram HERE then comment again  with your Instagram name that you have done so or already do.

3. For a 3rd entry, follow Bliss-Ranch.com on Instagram HERE, and comment again with your Instagram name that you have done so or already do.

This giveaway is good worldwide. 

You must be over the age of 18 to win. Void where prohibited. 

Winner will be deemed by random draw.   One “semi-finalist” will be drawn from each of the blogs participating in this blog hop, and then the final winner of the $150 Fusion paint will be drawn by Fusion from those semi-finalists.  

Winner must enter with valid email and reply within 3 days of winning email sent to you. This giveaway ends Monday, May 18th, at midnight EST. 

Winner will be announced in this blog post by May 20th.

 Buy Fusion Mineral Paints at this link: 
http://fusionmineralpaint.com/where-to-buy/

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