Basically, I'm An Expert: Day One at Metheny Weir

the workshop

I am a frequent lifestyle blog reader. Every post is one filled with fun mini adventures, and pictures of their shabby chic apartments in the city. Does a life so seemingly perfect, one where every moment is an intstagram moment, really exist? Yep. Yeah it does.

Welcome to Metheny Weir Custom Finishes on Larchmere in Cleveland. I walked into the little corner shop and was quickly greeted by Sue and Kim, the owners, who were dressed in tailored jeans, fab white I-just-threw-this-on shirts, both artistically splattered with paint.

The shop was just as cute as the two Southern accented owners. Fairy-lights hung from the ceiling, in-progress pieces of furniture pushed along the walls (which are covered by chalkboards and bulletin boards filled with magazine cut-out inspirations), and coffee was brewing next to their home-cooked breakfast cake.

Could my day get any better? Just being in this space made me smile. But yes, yes it did get better. Right off the bat Kim handed me a stool and, after quickly showing me the Annie Sloan painting technique, let me get to work with a paintbrush.

the stool mid-project

“Be careful,” Kim casually mentioned after I had already painted the first coat. “The client is coming to pick it up tomorrow.”

I tried not to let my horror show (and I don’t think it did, thank goodness) after learning, halfway through, that this wasn’t just practice.

But you know what? It turned out all right. The quaint little stool, originally black, not “Old White” fit in seamlessly with the other furniture pieces in the workshop.

I think I could get used to this field of work.

~Laura