Flipping Smalls – Coastal Style

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Flipping the smalls today! Coastal style. SO simple, SO quick!

Hello friends! How have you been? Are you staying cool? It’s been SO ridiculously hot lately! Ugh!! I love summer, but come on. I would sure love some 70s, and even 80s would be so nice.

Today, I’m sharing a few smalls today. Coastal style.

I’ve done several other “flipping smalls” series:

For this “flipping smalls”, I decided to do them all in a coastal style theme.

brown pieces from the thrift store on counterbrown pieces from the thrift store on counter

I found 2 of them at my local thrift store, minutes from me, and the little sign came from Dollar General. I bought it long ago to make over, but never got to it.

SOLID WOOD FRAME

The wood frame is just beautiful and looks like it’s an antique. But it’s not, as you can see from the back.

back of picture frameback of picture frame

It was quite dirty, so I scrubbed it up first.

using toothbrush to clean wood frameusing toothbrush to clean wood frame

clean wood frameclean wood frame

Clean slate ready to go! You could just leave it like this. All it really needed was a good cleaning.

I used our new Alchemy Limestone & Chalk paint for this one.

alchemy birch paint jaralchemy birch paint jar

painting the birch onto the wood framepainting the birch onto the wood frame

It took several coats to fully cover.

wood frame laying on counter painted whitewood frame laying on counter painted white

Once it was fully dry, I lightly sanded all over to distress it and give it a relaxed coastal style feel.

sanding the wood frame sanding the wood frame

So much beautiful detail that comes out this way. Love that!

DECORATIVE METAL WINE HOLDER

two of the smalls painted white on the countertwo of the smalls painted white on the counter

I cleaned this one up and sprayed it with primer before painting it.

Then I pulled out Casement (a nice soft white shade) and gave it a coat of paint.

jar of casement fusion paintjar of casement fusion paint

paint brush painting metal box whitepaint brush painting metal box white

Once it was fully dry, I pulled out this transfer that I had used previously on this project (the small chest in my foyer). I had leftover pieces from the transfer, so I decided to use them here.

I folded the transfer as shown below so I’d know where to cut it.

folded transfer laying on metal wine holderfolded transfer laying on metal wine holder

Then applied the first layer (the waves/water) and the second (the rocks) over the top.

applying transfersapplying transfers

Don’t know how to use transfers? Check out this page here with all the details:
How To Use Rub On Decor Transfers

Lastly, I added a sailboat out in the water.

applying sailboat transfer to metal conatinerapplying sailboat transfer to metal conatiner

Since these are “coastal-style”, I decided to give it some distressing. I used sandpaper to rough up the edges and bring the dark metal color through.

sanding edges of metal container sanding edges of metal container

I followed that with a coat of Topcoat in matte.

Such a different look, huh??

pretty white metal wine holder with seashell in front on brick fireplace pretty white metal wine holder with seashell in front on brick fireplace

up close of white metal holder with coastal transfers and seashell in frontup close of white metal holder with coastal transfers and seashell in front

COASTAL ART WORK

I painted this with the same color, Casement.

using brush to paint hanging art whiteusing brush to paint hanging art white

To give it some added color, I used Seaside for the edges.

jar of seaside blue paintjar of seaside blue paint

Pay no mind to my messy paint jars, I am not a neat painter!! haha!

I used one of the large sailing ships on this one. Then I pulled out this small piece of writing from this transfer.

transfer with wordstransfer with words

I thought it would be the perfect addition.

cut out of transfer with wordscut out of transfer with words

I also put a little white dry brush over the blue paint to add some dimension, too.

Some Topcoat to seal it and done! So simple!

hanging art hanging on small white chest in foyerhanging art hanging on small white chest in foyer

This is the chest and part of the same transfer I used today.

up close of ship hanging artup close of ship hanging art

And look who is peeking around the corner to check out what I was doing. lol

white puppy dog looking around cornerwhite puppy dog looking around corner

A little blurry, but I had to snap him quick! Can y’all believe he is 9 years old already??? I can’t!

And this little blue-eyed girl who loves to sit right here and watch all the “goings on” out the front window. She is 2 already. Wow.

black and white small chi on top of the back of the couch layingblack and white small chi on top of the back of the couch laying

Here’s a pic of both of my fur babies.

black and white chi and white golden retriever looking at the camerablack and white chi and white golden retriever looking at the camera

Ryder moved again, blurry face!! haha!! He’s hard to keep still. lol

These smalls were fun to do. I love how paint and transfers change the look of things so much. And is so simple to do!

3 brown smalls 3 brown smalls

3 painted white smalls3 painted white smalls

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Flipping the smalls today! Coastal style. SO simple, SO quick! Flipping the smalls today! Coastal style. SO simple, SO quick!

Have a wonderful weekend and try to stay cool!!

xoxo

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