Sunday, January 13, 2013

A Painted Dresser & A Hot Mess

Well I have had a hell of week.  Don't you just love when everything you plan goes wrong and everything you did not plan seems to happen.  I had a throbbing pounding toothache that resulted in me losing a molar, now I have toothless hole in the back of my mouth, oh well.  I am currently in the middle of painting a very large mahogany china cabinet, and no matter how many coats of Shellac I put on it, it keeps bleeding and bleeding through.

With high hopes that this week will be normal, today I am sharing a serpentine dresser I did before Christmas.


This was a curbside find and a good one, clean nothing was broken, it just needed a little paint.  I painted the dresser in Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Provence.


It's hard to see, but for the wax I mixed clear wax with olive paint, it was a subtle effect.


Gold rub-n-buff on all the hardware, it really just brings it back to life.

Let's talk about this color, Provence, turquoise, aqua whatever you want to call it.  I call it the money color, everything single thing I paint in this color sells really fast. What's your money color?

I cannot find the before picture, I think I forgot to take it, told you a hot mess.


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11 comments:

  1. Haha!! Here's hoping you have a more normal week this week:-)
    I definitely don't have a money color (it would make it easier!) but find the more unique and stand-out a piece is, the quicker it sells for me. Anything done in black n white striped fabric is always a quick seller tho, that's my 'money' fabric ;-)

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  2. I love Provence too! Nice idea about the olive paint mixed in the wax - I'll have to try it, sometimes Provence looks a bit too bold.

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  3. It looks great! I can see why it's your "money" color!

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  4. It is incredibly gorgeous! What is olive paint?

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