A "Man-tour-age" of Manly Projects

    

Most of the painting I do is for women.  Or requested by women for little men. 

Rarely do I have the assignment of painting something "masculine". 

Today I realized I have a trifecta of "Manly" projects that I haven't blogged about.....

This is me checking off my "to blog about" list...

The first paint project I bring you was actually a Christmas present...

no not a "Christmas in July" project... an actual 25th of December Christmas project.

A good friend of mine Mrs S was on the hunt for a wardrobe for her hubs. 

He likes modern, clean lined funky design. 
And he has a habit of discarding garments where they don't belong. 
She was hoping to inspire him to keep himself organized,
by giving him a cool place to store them all his own!

So I started hunting all the usual spots &
Craigslist paid off really quickly with a set of Waterfall furniture. 
(You might remember Victoria's Vanity which was also part of the set.) 

This "Man-oire" as we soon dubbed it was pretty stinkin' awesome. 

 It was cedar lined, two tone veneer, almost all of its original hardware,

but of course it was missing a foot. 

 (Because feet seem to fall off of furniture a lot!)

 My plan for the Man-oire was to paint a Danish flag on the front.
(Mr. S is short for a very Danish "S" name)

To challenge myself I wanted to paint everything Red

AND then leave the awesome book page veener on the front untouched.
(That veneer ws really pretty and almost sad to paint)

 I assumed that I could repair the missing and loose veneer enough to make it happen. 

And I could not.
**sigh**

 Plan B was to go ahead and paint it out completely. 

And make it super-duper high contrast. 
No glaze, no distressing, ultra-shiny.

 I attached the new foot and started priming. 

Then came the paint.  5 coats of red later. 

Yes, FIVE coats of red later.

It looked awesome. 

Coat 1, 2, and 3 made me NERVOUS because it was pink-ish. 
(Nervous = no photographs of pink-ish)

Pink-ish, even in the hot pink-ish spectrum is NOT MANLY!! 

Giant sigh of relief when it ended up being Manly, stop sign RED! 

(like the Danish flag)

 I painted all the orginal wood pulls and metal do-dads out to match their "zone" of the armoire.

I was relieved that I save ALL hardware and so I had 2 pulls from Victoria's Vanity
(And I could find them!)
so I had enough originals for the Man-oire.

(AND I could get rid of the weird aluminum circle pulls!)

The finished product was a real show stopper!

Notice the big door pull?

The original amber colored plastic piece was totally out of scale.

A trip to the Lowe's plumbing section gave me a perfectly scaled, copper pipe pull.

I love how the waterfall edge shines.....

And how the "flag" wraps...

Merry Christmas to Mr. S - your very own Man-oire!  ;)

The Second and Third paint projects in the Manly Tri-fecta are almost the same.... but their not!

My husband just finished his BS (SO proud of him!).

Something he never thought he would do when he joined the Army... actually use his GI Bill!!

Hubs said I couldn't buy him a present. 

SO I didn't spend a penny on this curb find!

Hubs is a HUGE St Louis Cardinals fan. 

HUGE.

I wanted to paint something that looked like

a cool, worn sign for his Man Cave as a graduation present.

But first I had to repair the cracked top and do some light sanding.... cause it was peel-y.

(See my cool new "new to me" clamps from my Paw-Paw?  Thanks Paw-Paw!)

Then I added some stain to even out the top color....

And started drawing circles with my kids chalk. 

Thanks Kids!  ;)

I used the chalk lines as the guide to paint my bands.

Then I added a logo.  Also sketched in chalk first.

Then some red and some more white circles...

And did a little light sanding..

After that I swore the children to secrecy.

And hid the table in the garage!

(Hiding things in my garage is really easy.  It's always FULL of projects and kids and toys!)

I had told one of my client's Mrs. O about the table. 

She wanted one too.

So along came Cards fan table #2!

But her table didn't come from a curb.  Instead a garage sale!

Mrs. O's table started with a black top and the chalk lines showed up great!

But the painting process was basically the same!

This time however, I painted the center red and put the logo on TOP! 

Painting around the logo on my Hubs table took quite a bit longer!!

When Mrs. O's Man Cave table left tho it was basically the same....

Shew.  That's a lot of Manly painting.

I may need to paint something pink!!

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