My Little Chest Before & After...

C'mon…what did you think I meant?

When I was little, my mom bought a bedside table and a lingerie chest at an unfinished furniture store...with every intention of making them pretty.

That didn't happened.

One day, in the late 1990's, while I was home from fashion school in L.A. to help my daddy…who had cancer, I decided it was time for a make-over.  

I hauled the chest from wherever it'd been dwelling, removed the pulls, grabbed my beloved block-sander, a gift from my big brother Bryan, and went to work.

(First, I CAREFULLY HIT IT ALL OVER WITH A HAMMER…the chest, not the sander)

After vacuuming away the dust from every nook and cranny, and wiping it down with a slightly damp cloth, I applied at least one layer of Daniel Smith's Black Acrylic Gesso.

GESSO?

Yep, gesso.

After that dried, I applied some leftover forest green paint (hey, it was the 90's) and then a layer of some sort of white.

I'm thrifty that way.


After a light sanding and an unfortunate rub of some "antiquing" variety…I gave it a good wax.
(it makes things nice and shiny without looking like plastic)


Voilà!

A couple of decades is all it took!!!
(Oh, and I swiped the knobs off of Bryan's childhood dresser to replace what was left of the ones original to the chest.  It okay…it was just housing discarded parts & tools in the garage.)

Oh, and the bedside table…it's still not pretty.


In other news,


It's the second week of the New Year…when is the last time you cleaned out & organized your handbag??
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Happy Monday!


: )


Julie M.


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