I hate, hate  to say this but my husband was right... and I was wrong.  Also, I'm sorry Daniel.  *smh*

Daniel hates Pinterest.  Hates it.  With a passion.  Sooo much.  LOL

The chalk paint is fine, there's nothing wrong with it, perfect recipe, go ahead and use it.  But  if you change your mind about using that technique because it's not the look you want after all, there are consequences.

First of all, it is not, I repeat not  to be used like a primer.  Regular paint does not adhere to it.  At all.  So if you choose to scrap the chalk paint, learn from my mistakes, and sand it or strip it all the way gone.  Here's a reminder of what that technique looked like.

First (and only) coat of chalk paint

It's great if you're going to use a wax finish and are going for that Shabby Chic look.  After I did the first coat, I thought, "Hmmm, why don't I just use regular paint now and roll it over the chalk paint?"  Terrible idea.  Luckily I only tried this on one section of the headboard.  Unfortunately it took me an hour of peeling and sanding to get it off of said section.  I would recommend having paint stripper on hand.  I did not, hence the hour of tedious work.  Daniel had a few choice words for me and Pinterest before I took over fixing my problem.


Like I said, if you're going to see it through, this technique is great.  If it weren't for the problems I created we had, this would have taken a couple hours to finish.  As it was, it took us all day.  We ended up spraying everything with the spray gun, which is so much easier than hand painting.  By the way, when I say "we", I mean Daniel.  Of course I forgot to take a "before" picture of the bedroom, but here's the final result. 

Need to move that picture now...

I love it!  It's way bigger than I expected but that's good.  We finally have grown up furniture.  Hurray!  Now we need to install our baseboards and hang things on the walls and we'll be done with the bedroom.  Oh, and still need to re-finish the nightstand.  Not 100% sure what I'm going to do with it but I'll tell Daniel I came up with the idea and not Pinterest. Shh, don't tell.  ;)

This was all on Saturday and Daniel also cut a piece of plywood for the kitchen counter which was a gaping whole for a few weeks.

On Sunday, Daniel sprayed the second coat on our first batch of kitchen cabinets.  Now they just need a coat of Polycrylic and new hardware and they're good to go!  Only a million more and the boxes to go.  Haha

Hope you had a great weekend, we were busy little beavers.  If we can keep up the pace, we'll have a bright white kitchen in no time.

♥ Holly ♥