Fabulous French Graphic and Colorful Coral dresser MAKEOVER

We are camping so I am hitting replay on a favorite of mine!

Good Morning my BEAUTIES!!

I finally have a new furniture makeover to share with you.

Its not that I haven't been painting furniture,

its that I have been too busy to edit and post.

But after your long wait I give you my

Fabulous French Graphic and Colorful Coral Dresser Makeover.

The day after we got home from our trip to Durango I started working on this baby.

(this was BEFORE the fire) You can read about that HERE

I had picked up this dresser from a thrift shop.

Now it looks like its in good shape but see all that white stuff...??

Its a white mildew.

The thing had obviously been stored somewhere that didn't breathe well.

It also wasn't stained wood. It was painted to look like wood...?? Kind of an oxymoron 

I know??? Wood painted to look like wood. :)

I grabbed my trusty Belt sander and thought I would bring this baby back to a nice

wood finished top............UHHHHHHHH NO..

Even after belt sanding the some how crazy scientific paint lab grade paint job

you could see that it wasn't going anywhere...Once I got through the brown paint layers,

you coud see that there was another layer of cream paint....

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.... Change of plans...

Since the dresser was behaving like a DIVA, I decided she was going to look like a Diva!

I grabbed my CeCe Caldwells Coral paint and got to work.

I painted on 2 thin layers of the coral paint and let it dry.

Then I waxed it and buffed it.

Once she was prepped and ready I decided she still needed a little more 

BLING!

I grabbed my reusable Mylar stencil that 

a nice person on Etsy. had made me.

Brown Bag Stencil Co. 

Lauren does amazing work and she made this specifically for a project I was working on.

I had her use a free graphic from Karen the Graphics Fairy

and she cut it into three seperate sections.

I used this stencil and some Navy craft paint to stencil on my

Fabulous French Graphic.

Once the Navy paint was dry I waxed it and buffed it again to give it 

that age old finish.

I added some Mercury Glass knobs from Hobby Lobby and she was ready for her Close up!

I love how the Navy Pops against the Coral.

Classic, but fun and fabulous! 

I hope you enjoyed this latest Makeover and hope you will come back

tonight when the Twirl and Take a Bow Link Party 

goes up.

We would all love to see all the latest fun stuff you have been up to.

Until Next time,

Go Make someones day BEAUTIFUL!!