Upright Piano...Custom Re-finish

Pianos are quickly becoming one of my favorite pieces to paint because they can transform the entire feel of a room! I recently posted about finishing my own piano and am now excited to show you pictures of a piano I just finished for a client. She has been working with a decorator and together they were toying around with a darker gray or black. They ended up landing on 'Peppercorn Gray' by Sherwin Williams and I can't even tell you how stunning it looks!! Sadly my picture taking skills just don't do it justice. {It's impossible to get a good shot in a garage...hehehe} None the less...feast your eyes on this...

Oh happy day...my client just sent me a picture of the finished piano in her home...doesn't it look AMAZING!!! {Thanks for letting me post it Kari!!}

And since we spoke of feasts...HAPPY THANKSGIVING all! ~Kell

Amazing Piano...Custom Order

I love it when a plan comes together! I had a client reach out to me about painting her piano, and when she said she wanted it to be aqua my heart skipped a beat...I have been wanting to do an aqua piano for a long time!! We went back and forth on a few colors and finally landed on Bay Mist by Valspar. I am so thrilled about how it turned out...I seriously could not be more happy. She mentioned that they had recently painted their front room gray and this piece will be perfect to brighten up their room and play well with the color scheme. I also painted the darling bench she found at Target but wanted white as opposed to the natural wood tone it was. She is out of town right now but I can't wait to see her face when she picks it up {♥}

Happy Fall Break all ~Kell

Finally...

I have wanted to paint my piano for as long as I can remember! I have done several for clients {you can see them here} and every time I do I dream about what color I would paint my own. Going back and forth between gray, white, and cream has held me up quite a bit. That's a big decision to make because heaven knows I do not want to paint it again for a VERY long time and I will certainly never part ways with this piece because it is the piano my kids learned to play on! Finally last weekend, the planets aligned to where we had no soccer games {that never happens with 2 kiddos playing}, and nothing pressing, and my thought was 'it's now or never'! I finally picked gray because it is the perfect neutral! It is light enough to disguise all the fingerprints to come and dark enough to hide all the dirty hand marks I am sure will ensue. I was determined...and my old body paid for it the next day but I was able to pound it out in ONE DAY! I will never do that again but must say I am so happy to finally have it done! I am thrilled with the color {Cathedral Stone by Valspar} and shouldn't admit that I walk by it many times a day just so I can sigh {insert super happy face}!! I am happy to cross that off my 'to-do list' just in time for the holidays!

I hope you're having a wonderful day ~Kell

Busy, busy, busy...

I know my absence has been a long one...I bet you think I have been hibernating this winter, huh?! I promise I have been keeping busy. Too busy to keep my head on straight which I am sure you all understand. Life has a way of doing that to us! Between soccer, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, piano, choir, and student council my kids alone keep us running in every direction possible but throw in a sprinkling of PTO, working at my kiddos school, church callings and doing furniture on top of that...it’s no wonder my hair is turning grey!

I truly would not have it any other way and am starting to fear the day that my kids grow up and move away...who will I live vicariously through then?!?!?! All joking {and crying} aside I really have been working on furniture, I just haven't gotten around to taking pictures, editing them, posting them, writing about them...etc...etc...so today is the day. Here's a recap of my last month and a half:

It started off with a gorgeous dresser that my client wanted turned into an entertainment piece. She wanted the two center drawers removed and shelves put in their place and also wanted the door fronts removed and replaced with glass. I love a good rebuild! It took a bit of time and paint to match the existing finish but turned out beautifully and fits their TV well!

After that I rebuilt 4 kitchen cabinet drawers for a friend that her kiddos had gotten their hands on...uh-oh! I even fixed an antique shelf that belonged to her grandmother and had fallen from her wall and broke {I think her heart was more broken then the shelf}. After which I fixed a cabinet drawer for another friend and added some pulls too. I don't have many pictures of this project but it kept me busy none the less. {If you look in the background of the picture with the black dresser you can see the scrolled wood from the shelf that needed repairing}

When I finished those I took on 2 dressers, a mirror, and side table for the same client that owned the entertainment dresser. The bedroom set was made by Dixie and the pieces were beautiful but she wanted them updated by changing them from their original brown stain to white with a slight distressing, new knobs to match the shape of her side table and even new drawer liner. I also cut out the decorative top of her mirror that had a slight Aztec look and didn't match her decor. The side table was painted in a matte black and will feature a glass top in her space. They turned out so nice!

Then I had a client bring me a piano! I LOVE PAINTING PIANOS! They offer a challenge that can't be beat and wow do they look nice when they are complete! In the before pictures you'll see the cherry stain that once adorned it as well as the white fabric on the bench. She wanted it finished in a taupe color {we picked Oat Bran} to match her Pottery Barn style and I distressed it for a shabby look after which I reupholstered the bench in a fabric she picked to match her color scheme. Can I just say it turned out AMAZING!

Somewhere in this mix I had another client bring me a headboard and desk that she wanted slightly white for a room she was doing for a client. She is an interior designer and does amazing work! We picked Du Jour and had them add fewer drops of brown for a custom color. The after pictures featured are from the room she designed which she stated still needs the finishing touches. Doesn't it look GREAT!

And I would be lying if I didn't mention that I threw a few pieces of my own in the mix! Our old house had a room that fit our office desk really well. It was a large, dark wood, L shaped desk with hutches on top that was to heavy in the smaller office we have now. So I decided to sell it and bought a glass table that will serve as our desk now. But seeing as how it doesn't have any drawers I wanted to finish a dresser to serve as a credenza behind it. I will post pictures but keep in mind the room has not been decorated so more pics will follow once the finishing touches have been added! I also refinished 2 old dresser mirrors that I wanted above our nightstands in the master bedroom. The room is very light and has pops of peacock blue and green so you can see why I picked the color I did. They really stand out and I love them! And finally, I bought a candy dispenser but despised the color and had to bring it to life with a vibrant aqua shade. My kids are enthralled which means: mission accomplished!

Whew...I feel winded now...hehehe! It has been a great few weeks and I am thankful that I get to do something that I LOVE!! ♥

Thanks for taking the time to read up on what's new at Home on Harmony! I hope you have a great day and a Happy Valentine's Day ~Kell

Year at a glance...{i.e. super long post with lots of pictures}

Where does the time go?? I started off the year with a lot of big things on my plate and knew that I would not have the chance to do any furniture for a bit. Well, then life threw our little family a curve ball and we ended up moving mid-year which delayed me getting pieces done even more. It has been such a wonderful year full of so many great things but I am ready to get back to it! Now that the holidays are over you will be seeing a lot more of me...I hope that's not a bad thing...hehehe!

If you're curious to see what I have been up to, take a peek...

These are in no particular order; I just finally cleaned up my pictures and am ready to throw them out there!

Since we moved into a new home, my girls no longer have to share a room. Bitter sweet, if you ask this mom, but they are happy to have their own space and that makes me happy {I still find them sleeping in each other's rooms every once in a while...insert happy sigh} Well, that little change required more furniture. That's never a bad thing if you ask me {wink}
Well, I was able to score a DARLING twin bed that needed an update and here she is...

She was also in need of a nightstand which didn't require much but I still painted it to match the bed...

I also did a custom piece for a darling client that had just moved in to her dream home. They were using a lot of natural colors and she wanted this amazing Mid Century Modern piece that I was selling painted a Burnt Sienna color. My after pictures are a little shot, but you get the idea...

She also purchased the super cute changing table I had finished a while back if you remember!

Do you remember this chair? Well, I stripped it of all its fabric, and finished it in a beautiful shade of gray {which was what my client requested} and gave it a mild distressing. It turned out great!

One of my friends who is an Interior Designer brings me clients which I greatly appreciate and this is a chair that I did for one of them. She only wanted it painted black so it's not a huge transformation but is one none the less...

That same friend picked up a darling bench that was quite dull and she wanted it to POP. Well, POP it does!! Isn't it cute?!

One of my dear friends moved here from out of state a while back and has been trying to put her new house together. Here are some things I have done for her playroom...

{I wish I could find the before pictures of these}

Right before we moved we had our kitchen cabinets painted and I wanted our table to match them so I refinished it by re-staining the top a walnut color, painted the chairs white and reupholstered them to match the gray throughout the house. I love how it turned out...

{Wow...that's a lot of oak!}

I also made throw pillows to match...

If you remember a while back, I redid an AWESOME chevron dresser for my son's room. I had a client that fell in love with the piece and wanted it for her nursery {I'll have to see if she'll let me post the pictures of it. If she will, you'll see why...it is the PERFECT FIT!!} That said, I was on the hunt for a different dresser for my little man's room. I found it. It wasn't too pretty so we dressed it up with a fun shade of orange to match this awesome bed spread I came across and had to have. {Have I mentioned I LOVE CHEVRON??} He plays club soccer so I am using gray and orange in the funnest ways to make his room a soccer haven, so naturally an orange dresser seemed fitting...right?!?

One of my friends was re-doing some things in her house and asked me to paint some smaller pieces black.

One of my dearest friends was trying to transform her family room from dark reds and browns to a more airy blue and white feel. I finished this dresser for her that she uses as a TV console. There is no before picture because when I got it it was primed {white} so you couldn't tell the difference from a snap shot anyways. It was birch beforehand if you can picture that.

Remember that friend that's an interior designer I mentioned. Well one of her clients had used me previously for these amazing chairs...if you'll remember a while back.

She has since used me to paint a toddler bed in a fun shade of turquoise/aqua...

And I am in the process of painting an OLD piano for her as we speak. I will post the amazing transformation for you once I am finished! But here is a glimpse of the "before"...

Finally got the after shots...STUNNING!!

{Silly, I found these inside the piano. Wonder how long they've been there}

Since moving, I have found that my dinky pieces of furniture don't quite fit in our new home. I laugh because so many people have said to me..."I bet your house is amazing!" "I bet you have the most beautiful pieces of furniture in the world?" Well, sadly that was not the case. I don't know about you, but doesn't it always seem that the stuff you want for yourself always gets put on the back burner? I finally took some time to finish a few pieces for me. Selfish, I know...but it needed to be done. The first piece was an entertainment console. It started out as a tall dresser, but we needed space for our cable box and electronics, so I removed a drawer and added a shelf in its place and what started out as this...

Ended up as this...and I could not be more thrilled!!!

I also scored these GORGEOUS chairs at a garage sale that needed to be brought back to life. I still need to sew the seat cushions but you get the idea...

Well, that is my year in a nutshell. It was an AMAZING year with lots of excitement and change but I am ready for a sense of normalcy again...and a clean garage! Happy 2014 everyone! Keep checking back to see what I've been up to...I love having you around ~Kell