Little Ole Phone Chair

I Love these old phone chairs (they're also called a gossip bench) that pop up every once in awhile.  I've found quite a few in the past year that I've then painted and passed on to some happy chat.  I wish I would have taken pictures of each one.  I painted one in black and put Black and White Toile on the seat. I painted one Red.  Loved THAT ONE! (again...so which I had a pic)  Usually you can find them in antique/second hand furniture shops and sometimes yard sales.  Nevertheless, I always snag them up when I spot them because they are relatively easy for a face lift.  So here is the before and after of my most recent telephone chair.

 I painted it in creamy colored chalk paint. It was an oops latex paint from one of the big box stores.
And I used some beautiful red and cream toile for the seat. I havent glazed or antiqued it yet. I'm   thinking about one of those frenchy transfer labels that can be downloaded from the Graphhics Fairy http://www.graphicsfairy-diy.com/ for free. Ya know the ones that are all the craze right now. I'm loving reading and searching all the blogs that show all that great transfer work.  I'd really like to find or create one that has some relation to an old telephone company....Ma Bell maybe.  Anywho.....I'd love your ideas,  should I leave it the way it is or plunge into adding "something" to the top, what do you think?  Would that make it too busy?

gossip chair with Red Toile on a cream background

For only $2.00 a can I figured I couldn't go wrong, right? I buy just about every oops paint I find, especially if its under $3.00 a quart. And I'm loving mixing up some of my own colors with a little bit from this can and a little bit from that can!

I mostly use oil paints for furniture because it is so durable, and like chalk paint it adheres to almost anything without a primer.  A couple months ago I found a whole gallon of pure white for only $5.00 that normally retails for $28.00 - I was so excited and got busy painting a bunch of tables and picture frames for my living room.  I will share all that soon.