joanna’s got some ‘splainin’ to do

May 2, 2022

After painting the kitchen chairs, I decided to paint the pie safe after all. The chairs were a drastic change — white to black — and I thought going with black also on the pie safe would simply be too much dark for a kitchen. I surfed over to Magnolia to see what Joanna might recommend.

I chose what I thought was a creamy taupe with a bit of gray. The paint name is “Gathering.” I expected it to be MUCH darker than the white destressed paint I decided on a few years back. More like the background color here on whatifitdid.com only darker.

Joanna’s got some ‘splainin’ to do…

color match fail

That’s what I call a color match FAIL! The pie safe is no longer distressed and it has more of a slick “furniture finish” now. It looks like a clean antique as opposed to something I brought in from the barn. 🙂 I like it alright, I guess, but it’s just not what I expected. You can’t tell by the photos shared, but I painted the inside black (like the chairs) and the white dishes from my Momma really stand out now.

So I went from this…

kitchen furniture before

To this…

kitchen furniture after

I’m in this creative painting mode now and not sure what will get hit tomorrow… but I’ll find something in here I can slap some paint on. Too bad I can’t paint some neutral color on that darned red couch that Ben picked out!

TIL (Today I Learned): Letting a wolf population recover, traffic collisions caused by deer are reduced by nearly 25%; the reduction is not based as much on the decimation of the deer population but on the “landscape of fear” created by the wolves.