tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238009484079189132024-03-12T22:06:35.153-07:00Re-tiqued by Rae BondAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579517198110830529noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023800948407918913.post-59162479003423735512016-08-12T19:03:00.000-07:002016-08-12T19:03:43.667-07:00Antique cabinet <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Isn't this piece cute. We were given this by a relative who had it stored in their musty basement. I didn't snap a before, but trust me, it was brown, boring and dingy. I knew I needed to brighten her up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I has a great time playing around with the colours and think it turned out beautifully. It is certainly much nicer then where it started from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I painted a base coat of white, and then had fun with some gray accenting. I also added these cute turquoise and silver knobs to the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Looks perfect under my moms typewriter. :)</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579517198110830529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023800948407918913.post-71977598287917692832016-08-12T18:35:00.000-07:002016-08-12T18:35:27.173-07:00Watercolor French dresser<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This piece was originally going into our living room as a couch backer, but I won the most beautiful French armoire at an auction, so this piece has been given the boot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I added some cream knobs with a gold metal overlay, very chic.</span><br />
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This piece is for sale on my ETSY shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ReetiquedByRaeBond">RetiquedByRaeBond</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579517198110830529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023800948407918913.post-81091099137691415012016-07-11T05:41:00.005-07:002016-07-11T05:43:16.583-07:00Steampunk Ornate Dresser<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I actually picked this colour up from Benjamin Moore in their mistint pile. It is such a lovely super soft shade of mint. I love it. I still have half the gallon left and will definitely be using it again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579517198110830529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023800948407918913.post-14758688740304916972016-02-01T19:22:00.004-08:002016-02-01T19:22:57.878-08:00Cobalt and Gold Nightstands<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">These little beauties are stunning. I picked them up with a matching dresser and opted to give them a cobalt/gold outfit. So much cute detailing on these and lovely legs. Whistle whistle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is a solid heavy oak piece that is in great condition. It was a bit short though, so Mr. Chuckles and I added the legs to bring it up to counter top height of 36". I find in a larger room the added height make it feel more contemporary and the legs add an airiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">First up, France was great. The picture above is me navigating a map on the way to Mount Saint Michel. Mr. Chuckle's and I biked our hearts out and I thoroughly enjoyed the countryside and sleeping in our little tent every night. So simple, so serene, so peaceful. We didn't get through as many KMs per day as we thought we would, but usually averaged about 60 which wasn't too bad given we were riding our regular mountain bikes, nothing too fancy. It is really such a beautiful country, and Paris is a gorgeous city, its so sad to hear what is going on there at the moment. Such a mad mad world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">I have been painting furniture since we have been back and rather then do a lot of separate postings, I am just going to post a few of my most recent pieces together to save some time. The piece below was such a stunning and high quality piece. It stood at 36" and was so grand (and heavy). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">This was also a gorgeous piece and super well built. I painted it in a soft cream with a taupe overlay. It looked so much better in real life, I just couldn't get the camera to capture the beauty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Mr. Chuckles was given this piece by his uncle. It has great medieval strapping on the corners. We opted for a rustic teal look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">I love this dresser. I bought it from a couple from Cuba who were living in Toronto but were moving out east to New Brunswick the morning after I bought it. It was so ugly in its original wood state, but that gorgeous raised detailing came out a dream in this rustic teal look. Great oversized hardware!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579517198110830529noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023800948407918913.post-33503222438275315872015-06-23T09:12:00.001-07:002015-06-23T09:12:24.249-07:00Cycling through France!<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Yay, summer is finally here! I know I have been MIA for a while, but I've got some fun news to share to explain why! Mr. Chuckles and I have been busy planning for a trip to France in July. And not just any trip, we are flying our bikes over with us, along with our tent, sleeping bags and camping stove and we are going to make our way around the countryside on our bikes, camping as we go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So we have been really busy trying to get things organized and accumulate all the gear we will need. We have tried to keep costs low, so a lot of the gear we have purchased has been second hand or from thift stores. I did splurge a little though and buy a good quality hikers tent as well as a mini stove and good sleeping bag. I can't stand being cold at night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">First up are these neat little bongo-style side tables. They were not much to look at in the original state, but their bright new shade perks them up a bit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A couple of new pieces to show today. I don't use black very often, I can probably count the total number of black pieces I have done on less than both hands. But after having done the Restoration Hardware Inspired black mirrors </span><a href="http://re-tiqued.blogspot.ca/2015/04/restoration-hardware-style-mirrors.html"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> and nightstands </span><a href="http://re-tiqued.blogspot.ca/2015/05/restoration-hardware-style-nightstands.html"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">, I thought I would try the look on these very unique dressers (which is part of the matching set for those nightstands.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I succumbed to an impulse purchase with this set. Once I got them home I had a 'what was I thinking?!' moment and they just sat in the corner for a while. I then thought I would just turn around and sell them as I wasn't feeling too inspired by them and I was busy working on other things like the three piece purple French provincial set for a friend that I forgot to snap pictures of. Doh! Ive asked her to send through some pictures of them in their new home. The purple was pretty cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">After a few weeks, I didn't have any hits on them, so I decided to paint them up. I sanded everything really well and I even used a bit of a deglosser (liquid sandpaper) on the curvy legs and drawers and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised with how great it worked and how user friendly it is. I will definitely use it again on hard to sand detailing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I tossed up what to do with this piece. When I picked it up it wasn't in as good of condition as the picture made it seem, but there was very few serious dings or chips in the veneer. I was going to do a white wrap, but the wood was so nice that I decided to strip and re-stain the entire piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The legs had a lot of wear on them, and I have learned from experience that I have a very hard time getting my legs to stain to the same darkness as the dresser. This has happened on several occasions, and it baffles me. It must be that it is a different wood and it doesn't like stain. When I look at the existing stain I can see it is more like a paint-stain. I have even tried gel stain, but no luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is the picture from the ad listing, it was the only picture, so not much to go on, but I instantly loved the crosspiece that connects to the two legs. The finish looks like it is really good, but pictures are so deceiving! In real life all of the drawers had wear marks everywhere, so she definitely needed to be taken back to the raw wood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I love this cute piece. I opted for a reverse two tone as the wood was so beautiful. I particularly love the curviness of the legs. Very unique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I stripped the wrap and finished it in 'special walnut' by minwax. I topped with a few protective coats of polyurethane in satin. I still need to rub the finish back a bit in this picture, but I was so eager to take the pictures I thought Id stage it first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The hardware reminds me a little of a bee. It kind of goes with the whimsy of the whole piece, so I opted to leave it original.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579517198110830529noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023800948407918913.post-79035975815999557162015-05-12T14:24:00.001-07:002015-05-12T14:26:18.402-07:00A Touch of Whimsy<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Well Mr. Chuckles may not like this piece. Ahem. But I think she looks excellent! Once in a while it is fun to just step outside the box and experiment a little bit. Mr. Chuckles clearly doesn't understand this kind of thinking, as he took one look at this girl and said "why didn't you leave it plain blue?" Isn't it nice to have such a supportive man in my life? You betcha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I added the adorable gold legs which I tend to do a lot to these big pieces. They were off a vintage MCM sofa that we bought for ourselves but had traded out those legs for more straight ones. Unfortunately I took one look at the sofa in our living room and went "What was I thinking?!" Even more rash was my decision to sell our other one before seeing this one in the space. We are now using a recliner until we buy a new one. Its a shame, it had great vintage lines, but that green fabric overpowered the room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This piece is a darker blue in real life, but blogger likes to 'brighten' things up without being asked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I picked up these nightstands as part of a three piece set. When I saw the set in the store, I love the bubbled drawers on the tallboy and longboy and chunky feet straight away, when I got them all home...hmmm...not so much. But alas, I had already committed, so may as well start painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lastly I protected the piece with wax. It has that hand finished look to it which isn't really visible in the pictures. But I think it suits the pieces and echoes the look I was going for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It was horrible. I'm usually an avid late night pee-er, but this tent was so impossible to get in and out of that my bladder had to hang on, and my eyeballs were floating by the morning. I had more ease crawling in and out of the VC tunnels in Vietnam a few years ago then I did this 'tent'. We couldn't even lie straight in the thing as the toe area was fully taken up by the air mattress, so we found ourselves contorting at odd angles to try and squeeze our skin into the cocoon. Good thing neither of us are that tall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But onto some furniture! This tallboy dresser is a great solid wood 1960s piece that was part of a 3-piece set I picked up. It came with a desk which I painted mint <a href="http://re-tiqued.blogspot.ca/2015/03/a-scary-tumble-and-cheery-mint.html">HERE</a>, and a 6-drawer lowboy I finished in gray <a href="http://re-tiqued.blogspot.ca/2015/04/wallpaper-and-gray-dresser.html">HERE </a>with a wallpaper accent. I actually wanted to carry the wallpaper over to this piece as well, but I didn't have enough left. In fact I am running low on a few of my favorite papers, so I decided to use this IKAT style paper which I have used before <a href="http://re-tiqued.blogspot.ca/2013/11/ikat-gone-wild.html">HERE</a>, but I opted for a distressed finish on it this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I painted out the body of the piece in a light gray chalk paint, distressed lightly around the edges. I painted the top drawer white, and then I modpodged the distressed IKAT paper onto the drawer facings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Definitely a whimsical piece, but I think she looks adorable!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I was going through my files and realized I had lots of MCM pieces that I haven't posted about. Sometimes I don't feel an urgency to post pictures of pieces that have a similar look to pieces I have done before. I think I have quite a few cobalt blue and gold pieces I have done too. But if I were to post them all I'd might be mistaken for doing the same 'look' over and over again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But I thought why not do a little motley of some of the nice two-tone mcm pieces I have done recently. For quite a few of these pieces I actually wanted to refinish the entire piece rather than do a two tone, but there was always a chunk of veneer missing somewhere that would have been beyond my ability level to fix. I have tried staining 'stainable woodfiller' but never had much luck with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">For most of these pieces I was able to just touch up the original drawer facings with just a bit of gel stain. It covers the nics and scratches and works a bit like a magic eraser. The piece above had a wonky back leg, but Mr. Chuckles was able to work his magic and fixed it up great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">For all of the pieces I prepped by sanding and wiping down all of the dust before priming (in some cases I needed to break out the Zinsser BIN to stop bleed through) and painted in either Cabinet Coat, or Aura.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This coffee table was in great condition, but there was one huge coffee ring water stain on the top level which necessitated me refinishing both the top and main level tiers for a uniform look. The old finish sanded off very easily, but that water stain ran so deep that I was afraid I was going to sand right through the veneer. In the end I tried a trick I found on the internet to rub a hot iron over the stain (after I had removed the old finish). At first I didn't think I was having much luck, but as I kept going, the stain gradually became less noticeable. After I re-stained and sealed with polyurethane it isn't noticeable at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This piece was stunning and I wanted to just refinish the whole thing as the wood grain was so gorgeous, but it had three separate chunks of veneer missing from the body which would have been a nightmare to try to fix, so in the end I went with a two tone look. I also refinished the drawer facings on this one as they were in pretty rough condition. The cute little pulls are original.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I loved the matte black cabinets and the distressing. I never seem to paint anything black, and when I picked up this great dresser set with two gorgeous mirrors I knew I was going to paint the mirrors black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">They are so beautiful and tall and fairly contemporary given that they are vintage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I sanded them down gently as I still wanted the wood stain to show through once I distressed them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I painted everything matte black, and then use course grit sand paper to sand all of the edges (this was the most time consuming part). I then sealed everything with wax.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I love how they turned out. They would look great above his and her bathroom sinks. I wish I had a pair of those to hang them above for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">No, it wasn't until I got her home that I realized she was going to need some cosmetic surgery to make her stage worthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I slowly set to work in between coats of painting our house and gradually she was ready to be painted. I sanded the entire piece down and opted for a soft romantic feel using 'Cottage Paint' clay and chalk paint. I added some green and gray tint to my beige paint and this beautiful soft colour was the result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A close up shot which shows some of the paint strokes, I used wax as a top coat on this piece because I was happy for that smudgy 'aged' imperfect look. Just clear, no dark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I added the distressed gray and white chevron pattern for a touch of whimsy, and kissed the knobs with the same green as the body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I made sure all the veneer was glued down firmly with wood glue and clamps, you know how old veneer can bubble and ripple. But I wasn't overly concerned about making sure the veneer was perfectly smooth. Its an old piece, she's bound to have a few wrinkles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A new piece to share! This is part of a trio set which is solid wood. Great vintage furniture. I love it. I was very indecisive about what to do with this piece. I knew I wanted to do something a little more unique, but I wasn't feeling all that inspired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">During this time of quiet contemplation, Mr. Chuckles and I repainted a good portion of our house. We went with a soft gray and also updated a geometric feature wall we have with some new colours. It all turned out great (although it took the better part of a week). One night, exhausted on the couch I was admiring my living room wall paper when I Eureka'd that it would look great on the dresser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I still had a little bit left over from wallpapering the living room and decided to put it to use. I first sanded and primed the drawer and then cut the wall paper so that the pattern was continuous over the three drawers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I painted the opposite side of the drawers with a mid-tone gray that would pull the gray out of the paper. I used chalkpaint as I wanted a soft romantic feel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I painted the wrap of the piece in a soft gray, it pulls a little white in the pictures, but it is a very soft gray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579517198110830529noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1023800948407918913.post-38849437604349870382015-03-18T20:08:00.001-07:002015-03-18T20:08:43.762-07:00A Scary Tumble and a Cheery Mint Desk/Vanity<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We are counting blessings in my family this week. A little get together at my mom's house took a serious turn when my little 18 month old nephew fell down a very steep set of 12 steps down to the basement. We have a little child gate up, but it wasn't latched properly and when he leant up against it it gave way and he fell all the way to the bottom. The poor little guy had the wind knocked out of him and couldn't get his breath for about 20 seconds. It was really scary. Fortunately the stairs have a thick shag carpet typical of 1970s houses and my nephew has an inherited stubborn disposition meaning he pulled through just fine, but for the adults it certainly made us all very aware of how quickly a life can shift. In fact, an old high school friend of my sister and mine just died two weeks earlier from falling down a flight of steps. We had only been talking about it 30 minutes prior.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But onto cheerier things, I love this little piece. The legs do it for me. I'm clearly a leg girl, because all of my favorite furniture have legs, and if they don't, I often add them. This piece came as part of a set. It is the first of the three pieces to go under the knife and I'm very pleased with the result. Isn't it the perfect colour for spring?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I contemplated doing a two-tone on this piece, but I have done about five two-tones in a row recently ( I haven't posted them yet) and I just couldn't muster the enthusiasm for another one. I was contemplating lots of different colour options and I finally was inspired by a piece in my own house. I have an old plastic laminate MCM tallboy in my basement that I use to store all my fabrics and decorative papers that I painted this spearmint colour a few months ago. Every time I look at it I get a little cheerier. It is just such a warm smiley colour. Perfect for a little piece like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> I began by giving everything a good sand and destroyed my elbow removing all of the stickers. I went down to the raw wood in a few places which was cause for breaking out the Zinsser BIN shellac primer. Woop Woop! That stuff is stickier than honey and can burn the lungs raw, but it really does the trick on stopping bleed through. (note: wear a respirator).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The piece was missing one ring pull, as well as the piece of wood for the top centre drawer. I managed to source a couple of similar ring pulls and traded out the two lower ones for the new ones, they are not exact matches for the other two, but they are pretty close. I spray painted them silver, and then glazed them with black to make them look a little more pewter like. You can read a previous post of mine that details this process here: </span><a href="http://re-tiqued.blogspot.ca/2014/01/getting-pewter-look-on-hardware.html"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">HOW TO GET A PEWTER LOOK ON HARDWARE</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It was a bit of a drive to pick her up, I've been having to wander further from home in order to find any good furniture as we have a drought on at the moment. I brought my cat and side kick - Miss Do-as-I-please, along for the trip as she loves car trips, she climbs up on my shoulders and wedges herself between my neck and head rest and happily gazes out the window. I tied her to a post while we loaded the piece into the Mazda, Im sure the gentlemen I purchased from thought I was a right eccentric!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The piece was large and chunky with a strong oak pattern. Oak is perfect for painting in these bold colours as their strong grain is visible through the paint. In this case the oak grain grabbed hold of the black glaze I wiped on perfectly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Im not sure how things are faring in other areas of the globe, but here in my parts the availability of quality used furniture seems to have dried up. There is a serious drought. I remember years ago I could walk into any second hand store and spot at least one piece I would work on, these days, I frequently do the rounds to 8 different stores and still come up empty handed. Craigslist and Kijiji have also gone cold. Its pretty frustrating. Im hoping when our deep freeze comes to an end that things pick up a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But I have had a few things to keep me busy in the two weeks since I have been back home. This mirror came with a dresser I picked up a while back. It is certainly nothing special, just a large and average wood mirror. I thought about tossing it, but when I happened across some inspiration while trolling though the internet I realized it was the perfect piece to try a new technique out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">What happens when you mix copper, bronze or brass with the natural elements? The result is called a verdigris patina (<i>vert-de-gris</i> in French), a layer of oxidation that forms over the metal to form a protective barrier. This patina varies in color from a green to a blue green / turquoise color. Left to age naturally, it will often take many years, but this natural patina results in a richer, deeper and more durable color.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Well, I certainly didn't have years to wait for a patina to form, and I also didn't feel like doling out $50+ for the science kit my local paint store was trying to flog to 'achieve the look', so instead I put on my white lab coat and got to mixing up some of my own potions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The result? pretty interesting and not too unlike an actual verdigris patina. I haven't got any rustic or agey looking walls in my house, but I could completely envision this piece perched on exactly that kind of wall - old, peeling, weathered, rusty. The mirror would look very at home there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Speaking of top coats, I used a new technique on this piece, which I must say, is an absolutely stunning piece of furniture! It is so grand, and was surprisingly manufactured right here in my very own city. It stands at 36" tall and is 20" deep. Most of my 9 drawers stand at 36" - but only after I custom add legs to them! Prior to that they are a dwarfy 31". I like a short stature on MCM pieces, but on the chunky 70s dressers I find they look way better with extra height. Personal preference I suppose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But obviously this amazon didn't need extra height because she was already so tall! I went to pick her up and realized there was a very good chance she wouldn't fit in the Mazda 3, the gentleman enquired where I live, and by sheer good fortune he was heading to my very street later that same afternoon for a birthday party! Pretty coincidental in a city of 500,000 people! So he actually brought her to me. Very kind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The least fun part was the sanding. Sanding French provincial furniture is the most labor intensive out of all furniture. So many god darn curves and bevels and lips and ledges. Urgh. It took about two hours to sand her down, vacuum and wipe her clean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Next step was to prime her up with some tinted primer. Two coats and a bunch of dry time later I was ready to paint.= (aka the fun part). Oh, and the hardware was giving a dose of Rub-n-Buff in antique gold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I used a cobalt colour I love, but I also mixed in some navy blue and black tint to achieve a more navy colour. I painted on about three or four coats in a satin finish. It turned out really nice, but it was missing that 'pow' sheen that I get when I use wipe on poly. The problem is, the last time I used WOP I had such a hard time getting an even finish on the top that I ended up doing WAY too many coats. I just wasn't mentally or physically ready to go through that again so soon. Still licking the wounds and all...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I remembered reading in a wood working forum that someone found that tung oil finish gave a less streaky result than WOP. I just happened to have a can on the shelf in the basement so I thought Id give it a whirl. I used an old rag to wipe it on, and then I used a second rag to virtually wipe it all back off, just leaving a tiny hint of the product, but enough to give me the subtle sheen that I wanted. It took quite a long time to fully dry (despite me wiping almost all of the product back off), but in the end it produced a more high-end result than if I had just left the paint un-topcoated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Anyways, I am really happy and I think I will try this technique on another piece in the future. But for now I would recommend it, particularly on a darkly painted piece of furniture as tung oil finish will amber over time (so DON"T use it on a light coloured piece).</span><br />
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