RESCUED ANTIQUE SIDEBOARD MAKEOVER

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Welcome back my Beauties!
Finally I made it back with this post I promised a while back.

You may remember a few weeks ago (maybe a month??? :) )

a friend of mine texted and said he was cleaning out a house he was going to be doing some construction on and didn't want to see this beauty go into the dump.

I of course instantly told my husband to empty out the truck so I would be able to go pick it up and we were there within a few hours to grab it. 

It needed a LOT of work, but when I am saving a free rescued piece I don't seem to mind.

I feel like its been through so much, it deserves to finally get some attention.

So the first thing I did as you can see was to peel off what was left of the veneer on top.

It took a little elbow grease and my scraper but I made short work of it. 

Once all the veneer was off I could get to sanding.

I used my Ryobi sander and a few different grit sandpaper and smoothed out the whole top to prep it for stain.

After it was sanded I wiped it down with some tack cloths and got to work on staining.

Since I was going to go with a rich color for the base of the cabinet I wanted a deep dark tone for the top.

So I used Minwax Dark Walnut.

When it was dry I just used some wipe on poly to seal it.

Now the fun part.

After lightly sanding and cleaning the whole base cabinet and securing all loose doors and things

I used General finishes milk paint in Westminster Green

and Twilight, (in a 1/1-ish ratio)to give an awesome dark greenish blue.

(I kept the legs dark and just cleaned them up with some Restore a finish)

While the paint was drying I just grabbed some vintage hardware and gave it a couple coats of Rustoleum copper spray paint to play off the blue green color.

And there she is!!
Can you even believe this is that same piece.

She just needed a little tender lovin care and a lot of elbow grease!

I just love how that green blue played off the copper hardware and the dark wood!

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Until next time,

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!