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Do you remember this shabby white stool?  My mom found it months ago and it has been sitting in my garage waiting for some TLC.  It has a fun retro structure but basically looks like it was covered in primer…the seat cushion included.  I know, weird.

So the day finally came when the step stool got a fresh makeover…

I sanded the whole stool to even out the bad primer job.  And then primed again.  When I got to sanding the 2 steps, I found that some long forgotten blue paint was peaking out.  The more I sanded, the more blue, the more I loved.

I embraced the early blue and keep the steps distressed looking to show the true age and patina of the stool.

Don’t worry.  I poly’d the steps because I would assume there is lead paint in there.  It is all sealed in now – the blue, the white, the raw wood.  In fact I polyurethaned the entire piece when I was finished for easy cleaning.

The legs were painted with some leftover mint green paint and lightly distressed to match the heavily distressed steps.

I found the sweet fabric at Joann’s in the scrap bin.  I was looking for something navy to pull out the blue in the steps.  Plus the floral print had the green in there too. Win.  Win.  And a new cushion was born…

I sold this at Clover to someone who is going to use it in the laundry room.  Darling.  Did I mention that my mom wanted to keep it when she saw the end result?

Isn’t it cute how the steps fold up?

Now I’ve got to tell you that I have been knee deep in Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and I am ob.sessed.  Had I used it on this stool, I would not have needed to prime.  Oh well.  Stay tuned for some of those projects.

Oh and don’t forget to enter to win the Poppies & Petals giveaway!

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