Welcome to this Spring’s MyColor™ inspired by Pantone^® Painting Party! A group of five awesome DIY bloggers have all completed projects using MyColor™ inspired by Pantone^® paint and now they’re giving you the chance to read their tutorials, gather inspiration, have fun and win prizes!

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 Here is the list of bloggers:

First up today, is Nicole from Sketch 42. I’ve been a longtime reader of Nicole’s smart and beautiful blog, ranging on all sorts of design topics – from art and architecture, to fashion and nature. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with for us!

I thought I’d share this simple dresser makeover, because I think it is so effective! This dresser was perfectly fine, and had nice clean lines, but the dark wood was a little drab and boring, for the light, airy look my client wanted to go for:

Here is the before shot:

I came in with a little MyColor™ inspired by Pantone’s “Bright White” and “Celestial Blue.” I rolled on the Bright White on the exterior, then painted the drawers in “Bright White”. I love to use a foam furniture roller for these kinds of projects, and a high quality Cub brush for the cut in’s. Doing this will create a smooth paint surface, and give you that professional look!

You won’t need a sealer for this – the paint has a nice eggshell finish that is just perfect for furniture. I really like for my painted furniture to be not too shiny, but shiny enough to clean, and the finish for MyColor™ inspired by Pantone’s  paint is great for that!

To top off the new paint job, my client added mercury glass knobs from Anthropologie. Aren’t they beautiful? They really help lighten the piece up, and they’re affordable at around $10 a pop.

What do you think?

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And, big news! NEXT WEEK is our Mycolor Inspired by Pantone Paint Party! Five design bloggers are creating DIY projects using Mycolor paint, and blogging about them.

A while back, I was commissioned to paint a design on a nursery that was to be a nautical theme, for a baby boy. My client pretty much gave me free reign on the pattern, and I came up with this fun rope pattern. I used a template, cut out from cardboard, to make the pattern to trace on.

Here is the “before” shot:

I just hand-paint in each white (using MyColor™ inspired by Pantone’s “Bright White”) part, after tracing it off of my cardboard. It’s nice that this one can be sort of free-hand and organic looking, since it’s “rope”. Here is a photo I took after I did just the white part:

It looks neat, but it still needs that nautical touch! I came in with MyColor™ inspired by Pantone’s “Midevil Blue” to paint in this part. As you can see, I just painted little vertical angled lines on the white, about one inch apart, to make it look like rope. Once you get the hang of it, this part goes by very quickly. An important thing to note, is that when you are going “over” another rope section, you want to paint in the lines to make it seem as though one “rope” is going over the other. See what I mean here:

This makes it seem as though the rope is in a net or in knots.

We loved the way the room came out!

Hi, everyone! I’m back today, and wanted to share with you all a lamp DIY that I completed. This lamp was a thrift store find, and was in bad shape. It had a very traditional look to it, but good “bones”, and was ready for an upgrade. I know sometimes it’s hard to look past pieces when they’re dark and dirty, but with a little elbow grease, you really can transform most things.

Now, painting lampshades might not always be easy or successful, but in this case, since the lampshade was a hard one (and not a fabric one), it was very paint-able.

My client had already spraypainted the base white, but it was initially a burgundy.

Before:

My client wanted to soften it up, and make it fit her living room, where she had khakis, whites, creams, blues and browns. I decided to paint the shade a brownish khaki (MyColor™ inspired by Pantone’s “Chino Green”) with a light brown ( a tiny bit of MyColor™ inspired by Pantone’s “Rawhide” mixed into some glaze) glaze on top, then I added a monogram for some interest. This is a great site where you can preview your monogram. I just looked at the site, and drew from there. If you aren’t feeling so creative, you can literally trace the monogram off your computer screen (easy, since its lit from behind!).

voila! I also added some glaze to the base to soften it up a bit… you just paint a little on, then rub it off until it looks right. You can play around with it with a damp rag.

much better, huh?

Hi everyone!

This will be one of those posts about the Power of Paint. I (clearly) love painting anything and everything, and I think a lot of times, people forget that you can paint just about anything — it doesn’t have to be just walls. A while back, when a client of mine wanted a new kitchen table and chairs, she used paint (and me!) as her weapon of choice .

She found these old, beat-up pieces of furniture on craigslist. The table was made of good solid wood, but was painted black, and had lots of dingy spots where it had been hit and dinged .

The chairs might have been in equal or worse shape! She bought them from a Chinese food restaurant that was going out of business, so their life span was looking bleak.

We decided to embrace their dings, and give them a newer, more antiqued look. I used MyColor™ inspired by Pantone’s “Seed Pearl” painted on the chairs, then used a sanding block to sand down the edges to give it a rustic look. We also recovered the seats in inexpensive burlap (bye bye burgundy Chinese restaurant fabric!)

For the table, we first had to remove the black paint. We weren’t super-concerned about removing ALL of it, as we weren’t restaining, and wanted a very rustic look, but we removed most of it with some paint remover and a sander. After that, I just used MyColor™ inspired by Pantone’s “Rawhide”, mixed with a ratio of about 75% paint, 25% glaze to smooth over the raw table. In the end, I wanted it to be ready for people to dine on it, so I used a clear varnish on top. We loved the way it turned out!