Friday, April 18, 2014

French Provincial Dresser Repaired and Painted.......

This one we found just totally not well cared for.  The person we got it from said he was repairing it, but gave up.  Goodness, they painted it numerous times.  When we stripped it, we found they painted over the original cream white factory paint, then painted silver over that, then blue, and then the last was black.  The veneer over it was peeled off and they applied plaster sheetrock over it and sealed in the middle drawers.  The top was coming apart from the rest of it.  We where going to do this as a custom, but she wanted a clean look and this was for a shabby chic look so we painted it now it's up for sale.  Good thing it was solid wood :) 


Here are some of the venner missing parts, plus you can see the paint colors...



more veneer pieces missing...


we took the top off, repaired what we seen was damaged....


they even painted the sides of the drawers....we stripped that also....


Now I am applying the primer....


these are the drawers after we stripped it...



Then I applied the light grey paint...


                                       

                                                      We fixed the veneer and smoothed it out....


I distressed the edges that popped out.....


found some hardware and painted them gold.....





Looks much better than before! Solid and sturdy too.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Coral and Gold French Provincial Highboy Dresser Chest.......

This was a furnished and custom painted french provinical chest
 for another one of our new buyers.  

She wanted it a coral color with gold accents threwout.




So we repaired some dings and dents...sanded it dowm,
 primed it...replaced a broken handle..

I painted the whole thing coral (multiple coats of course)



brushed gold around the curved part shown here...




then I brushed gold on the feet, crown decor on bottom...


Then painted gold on top curves...


painted gold on the middle rounded parts...
and hardware...


Here is the finished french chest...
will look gorgous in her nursery!





Highboy Dresser Chest Repaired & Painted Grey....


We had this for awhile, had it for sale but noone wanted to or knew how to repair it.  I even lowered it to $20.  So we finally got around to it.  I squeezed it in with a custom order I was also working on. 


The rail in the front that holds up the top drawer was off completely...
John repaired that...


 It was missing rails on some of the drawers, 
John repaired those.  He put in wood rails to hold up the drawers and 
cut some metal ones to place under the drawers....


I sanded it down to get most all the shine and some finsih off....
then painted it grey.....a lighter grey, not to dark...



then found some handles and painted them gold....



Has a secret 3 drawer to hide stuff in.....



wouldn't even know there is a drawer there!













Here is the finished, repaired, and fully working gorgous dresser chest!


Monday, March 31, 2014

French Kent Coffey Dresser w/Mirror......

This was a furnished and custom order done for one of our new buyers.  It is a Kent Coffey French Provincial dresser.  We got it like this it was spray painted metallic color under that it was painted brown and under that it was factory white paint.  So we stripped it and sanded it down.... 



Here is the stripped and sanded drawers....


this is the stripped and sanded body.....



the wood is just so beautiful...








Now I primed them, this is a mirror she wanted to go with it.....





here is the dresser primed with multiple coats...



then I added mutilple coats of the citrine by BM.....


Our finish is so awesome :)


painted the handles black....


The top is flawless!


Here's the mirror....







The finished piece!  This is just so beautiful!   A whole lot better than the before!

Monday, March 24, 2014

Cherry Pink Red Buffet...

This was furnished and custom painted for our new buyer Stephanie who we also furnished and custom painted the ornate mirror frame for.  She wanted this a red pink color to go with a picture she had in the dining area.  So we repaired and sanded it down, I primed it...then applied multiple coats of paint, distressed it slightly, stained all of it.....



Look at this top!


Distressed on edges...she didn't want it to distressed...


Painted the hardware a dark bronze...



the inside got love also :)







Looks very nice :)  

Ornate Mirror Frame ......


This was a furnished and custom order done for our new buyer :)  She came by to see a buffet she wanted from me and wanted me to paint it then she seen this mirror frame.  I held onto this for awhile!  I loved it and was going to keep it, but I decided to put it up for sale.  It was spray painted really bad too!  So we sanded it down and I primed it and painted it gold.......




Here it is....






I just love it!  Shoulda kept it :( 
 I would've put it up on my wall just like this with fencing in the back no mirror.