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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The original wood hardware was painted in the same soft gray as the wrap and protected with satin sheen polyacrylic. I hand buffed the metal fastners to a soft gold.
The gray lines on the wallpaper has a lovely soft metallic reflective sheen which isn't remotely visible in this picture.
This is a before of the matching tallboy as I forgot to snap a before of the six-drawer.
I picked up an adorable solid wood Baronet french style set the other day. And it was FREE. Yay! It was painted in that off white that would have looked adorable in a little girls room 40 years ago.
I picked up a tall 4-drawer dresser, a nightstand, and a six drawer dresser. I thought about repainting them white and keeping with the little girls theme. But I just didn't feel like it. Nope, I wanted to do it in a deep charcoal.
Well, I did the nightstand and the tall dresser in charcoal, but I did the six-drawer in mint and white (pics to come soon). I had low expectations of what was going to lie beneath that old white finish, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it was solid wood! Nice!
I left the inside of the nightstand white to add a little contrast with the charcoal gray.
I painted out the hardware white, it was originally a two-toned white/gold finish, and I didn't mind it, but I wanted the contrast of the white.
This charcoal gray I used is a flat paint, and it just doesn't accept wax well. The wax doesn't absorb into it the way it does chalk paint. I knew I wanted to top coat with wax on this piece, not poly, so I did two coats of my regular gray flat paint, and the third coat I turned into DIY chalkpaint using PoP. I worked perfectly!
After the chalkpaint coat dried, I sanded it down to smooth out the roughness and applied the wax. The lustre is perfect, a great hand-rubbed sheen.
Here is the pair of them together. Aren't they handsome!
Here are a couple of before pics. Although they look like they are in great condition, the finish was chipping and scratched. In short, they looked their age (and not in a good way).
I love how this one turned out. The pics are not amazing, but in real life she is a great colour and her clear wax has given a lovely soft sheen. I custom mixed ASCP colours to come up with my various shades of green, mint and teal. I also accented with some turquoise and blue. I distressed pretty heavily and lots of the wood shows through.
I originally papered the middle section as well, but I didn't love how it turned out, so I overcame this by lightly painting over the paper and distressing so you can only see it in a subtle way. A bit like a whitewash.
Thanks again to Dionne at THETURQUOISEIRIS for inspiring me to use the peacock paper. She is amazing!
