I don’t know what makes people think matched sets of things are so special. Personally, I prefer the intentionally mismatched. The sets where everything is the same, but different, like in SET, the game.
GOOD……………………………BETTER……………………..BEST:
So when I set up our new cosy dining room and we needed two more chairs to round up our seating capability to four I looked for a couple of “Windsors” to go with the two we already had. I found two which were similar — same rounded back, but smaller — giving me the kind of mismatched set I like the best.
Then I decided to paint them in entirely different ways.
The first, I painted black. You may have noticed by now, I love black as a background.
I painted glazed donuts with sprinkles as the motif. Better I should sit on them than the reverse, if you know what I mean!
I used acrylic paint and sealed with Minwax Polycrylic Sealer.
For the second chair I looked to my traffic box painting “Good Luck Sweet Cookie” for inspiration and cobbled together a variety of Chinese mofifs.
I used three shades of blue, and metallic copper acrylic paint and sealed it the same as the first chair.
I’m pretty sure the characters translate to “Do not sit on the Donuts.”
Second Helpings? Yes! The same but different? Yes!
Intentionally Mismatched? Yes!
SET!
