If you have looked through my blog, then you have seen a very similar piece before, ok, maybe even two. I just love raised detailing on dressers, it adds such interest, especially once it is painted out.
I have a lot of natural light on this dresser, so it looks 'I need sunglasses' bright. In reality it is quite a deep shade of turquoise, mostly blue, but with a subtle shade of green as well.
I left some of the wood to poke through on the detailing to add some depth. I also did a bit of accenting with white and yellow.
The hardware was in really bad shape, I thought I was going to have to spray paint it, I started to give it a light sand so the paint would have something to grab onto, when I noticed it started to sparkle underneath. It was quite magical, I just lightly sanded and in the process polished up the hardware. This pic below shows the after and the before.
I was originally going to go for a charcoal and white combination for this french dresser, but I am really feeling colour at the moment and so I decided to go with this emerald/mint combination. The body is Annie Sloan Florence and the drawer fronts are a custom mix.
I did some light distressing to age the piece. I also painted some white underneath the mint colour on the drawers to provide a romantic layered look to the finish.
I gave the original pulls a small blast of gold spray paint because I love the way emerald and gold go together.
This colour scheme gave me the perfect excuse to use this vintage wallpaper I found at an op-shop. It was from Eaton's and the original sticker price was $2.99 for the roll. Bargain.
I usually wax the top of my pieces, but I decided to try a poly this time. I sanded back and then put a coat of wax on top of the poly. The result is a soft sheen, and is very durable!
Here is a before shot
Ah Turquoise. My favorite colour. Sigh. I was lucky enough to find these guys a couple of days after I found their big sister (see my earlier post). I finished them in my favorite colour :) and distressed and let some of the wood poke through.
I made a custom chalk paint for these, and finished with clear wax. It buffed to such a lovely sheen.
Ok, if you have seen my earlier posts, you will definitely recognize this look! I love turquoise, I love two-toned, and I love MCM dressers! Those three loves saw me create a very similar dresser to one I did before.
It is actually a different colour than the previous one, but it only by a shade or two.
I decided to keep the original wood pulls, but just paint them out to match the rest of the dresser. I opted for white so that they would blend it rather than draw too much attention to themselves.
It looked too plain after I painted the front all white, so I added the three racing stripes to give her some more interest. I affectionately refer to her as 'triple dip'. Mr. Chuckles thinks its funny that I give all of my pieces names. I like to assign a personality to them based on their attributes, and it helps keep me organized when I store all my pics in folders under their 'name'.
And here is the before!
