neutral or traditional?

Published on by Quandie

A friend recently nabbed this cute little pair of mini chairs for me.

Although they had an awesome chippy paint on them, they were quite dirty.  I tried scrubbing them down, but they still looked fairly grungy so they definitely needed a paint job.

I decided to give them two different holiday looks; one is more traditional with red and green, and the other is more neutral.

Let’s start with the traditional look.

I painted this chair in my favorite Dixie Belle Drop Cloth.

Then I pulled out those same 6×6″ stencils that I used inside the Christmas clock shadow box that I shared a while back.  As I mentioned then, I ordered these from Amazon, but the exact stencils are no longer available.

I masked off the area for each of the colors that I used and stenciled them separately.

The truck is DB’s Honky Tonk Red, the tree is their English Ivy and the rest is done in Caviar.

It’s a little more time consuming to do a multi-color design like this, but I think it’s worth it in the end.

I painted the 2nd chair in Dixie Belle’s French Linen.

I used another of the 6×6″ stencils on this one too.

I used DB’s Drop Cloth, and this one was a bit simpler since I just used one color for the stenciling.  I did add a little dimension by adding a quick swipe of French Linen on each of the letters.  I just used an artist’s brush and added those free hand.

One benefit to the more neutral chair is that it isn’t strictly a Christmas decoration.  You could leave this one out all winter.

Either way, both chairs turned out pretty cute.

I’ll be bringing these into the shop along with the rest of my holiday merch this week.  They are priced at $22 each if any of my local readers are interested.

Leave a comment and let me know which look is your favorite!

22 thoughts on “neutral or traditional?”

  3. Oh, this is a hard choice! Both are so cute and there would be so many ways to add them into Christmas decor. I’d give the neutral one a slight advantage since it could be used all winter.

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  5. Another hit! Linda, both are wonderful! The neutral has longevity but the Christmas just pops! Either way they are both winners!
    Smiles, alice

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  6. Love them both, but my fav is the Let it Snow one. I’m sooo over those red trucks though! I had a red Hallmark truck under the tree years and years ago, when they issued one. (still have it) It’s kind of exploded again these last few years.

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    1. I read somewhere that this year the trend for holiday decor is for champagne (the color, not the beverage) and gold, so I think the red trucks are a bit over. But I still think they are pretty cute!

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    1. I like to add a little red for Christmas too. This year I put a pop of red in my front window box even, it works really well with my house color. I’ll be sharing that later this month!

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  10. Love these but I’m totally torn! Hard to pick one over the other. Predicting a quick sale. I think the price is so reasonable!

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