The explanation in Stefens terms as he had to send an email out and I didnt want to retype it.
So Bri has had this dresser since before she can remember, and who knows how old it was when she got it. It was an awful puke yellow and cream color that had faded into the night. Hence a makeover was in order. I had a gallon of paint matched pretty close to some whitewashed paneling to do some repair work on an old travel trailer I got for free, so we decided to go with that as our base color. We wanted more, however, so we decided on a brown glaze to spice it up. On the large flat surfaces, Bri applied the glaze with a roller, then placed the wrap of the saran (aka saran wrap) over top, brushed the air bubbles out, then pulled it off. The result is a leather looking surface. On the remainder of the dresser, including the drawer fronts, I simply painted the glaze on with a brush, then wiped it off with a sponge. It turned out looking like wood grain.
We then moved on to the side panels on either side of the mirror, which were originally cork board, which had shrunk and fallen out over the years. We did not want to do cork again, so we narrowed it down to chalk board or sheet metal. Neither one of us like writing with chalk, so we set out to make the sheet metal work. The plain galvanized surface looked too much like the mirror in the center, and we wanted to add some color. Now, staring at the ginormous plethora of spray paint selections on the great wall of spray paint, much debate occurred between one another, our mothers, and the home depot guy (we could not include the inferior decorator as it was like midnight in Chicago at this time). The color choices thrown out there were hot pink, mexican gold, baby pink, baby blue, mexican gold, baby green, cream, light tan, mexican gold, lipstick red, purple, mexican gold, white, white board paint, mexican gold, chalkboard paint, and mexican gold. Yes, El Senior Casa Depot was much in favor of mexican gold (even though he wasn't mexican) and bri kept saying NO. After half an hour of deliberation, we settled on gloss burgundy. Did you catch that we threw in a whole new color after this long grueling debate?
In the end, we decided to paint the handles burgundy as well to bring the color into the bottom half. I also got a new tool in the process as we had to have something to cut the sheet metal with. And no, the term "tin snips" is not found in the global dictionary. The device used to cut thin gauge sheet metal is more commonly referred to as "scissors."
PLEASE LEAVE YOUR FEEDBACK!!!
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| Before |
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| The drawers |
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| The whole thing all pretty |
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| One of the sides with "leather look" |
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| In the picture the red turned out a lot brighter than it really is. |
