Sette Design: Painting Baskets White

This is going to be a fun post because I’m “teaching” you to do something that has no technique and there is no talent involved. It’s that just wonderful! I love a quick change that makes a big impact.

white baskets

So this week I got a new washing machine, oh man did we need one here for a long time, so I felt inspired to get things ship shape and I spent the weekend in my studio, and cooking and doing loads of laundry. I still don’t have a dryer. No one much has a dryer here (in Italy) and this pisses me off, but there are issues of energy costs, for me just costs, hook up connection, space bla bla bla. When I die many, many years from now my sister who may out live me can write on my tombstone “she didn’t have a dryer”. Anyway this new washing machine is such a dream that the clothes are almost dry when they are done. It does sound a bit like an airplane is taking off. The girls and I say, “take-off in 3 minutes”.

I want to say I’m just being silly and I realized that I have readers in for example Brazil and Tanzania and Serbia and you all might not have a dryer either, but you do have a computer and so here we all are together loving design and making things pretty.

before shot, I didn't ever like the shiny finish

I took my old big baskets and I painted them white (satin finish acylic) with a few drops of black universal tint mixed in to make it a tiny bit gray. The basket that had a dark stain on it already, I left the darkness coming through a little, this gives it a nice Shabby Chic effect. The basket that was natural I painted over completely white.