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! 

Finicky Fox Vintage Bow Front Buffet Makeover

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Welcome back my Beauties.

I am sorry to stay away so long, but I am sure you know how life gets.

I have been painting like crazy and filling the booth, and the kids are home for summer and that doesn't leave me a lot of time to blog.

I remember thinking when the kids got older things would be less busier...(heres a hint....its not) :)

But that's ok... 

The reason I am finally writing this post is because I just love this piece so much I couldn't wait to show it off. 

I have a hard drive full of all the makeovers I have done in the past 3 months but those will have to wait.

This one jumped to the front of the line!

I got this buffet from a friend.

She was cleaning out her house and asked me if I wanted this?

I ran over that as fast as I could :)

You can see it needed some work, but that didn't scare me.

It had these heat marks on the top and the fronts were scratched but I didn't care.

I got right to work with my random orbital sander and took that old finish coat right off.

Once that was off and I had wiped the whole piece down with cheese cloth to pick up the dust I could start with my finish.

I picked Minwax Dark Walnut to deepen up the finish.

I sealed it with some wipe on poly and got to work on the rest of the piece.

While that was drying I removed all the hardware and cleaned it up and then gave it 2 coats of my favorite metallic spray paint.

Now it was time for the fun part.
Since I knew I was going to be putting a transfer on it, I needed a lighter color.
You know me, normally this would have been a bold green or blue,
but I wanted my graphic to stand out so I piced
General Finishes Reverent Gray Milk Paint
I put on two coats and let it dry.

Here it was, already looking fine, but I knew I wanted to jazz it up.

So I went to my transfer that I have been saving for a year and got to work.

We went to England last summer and I was reminiscing about all the cute little pubs and cafes.

Adding the Finicky Fox transfer just made this feel like it would fit in at an English Cafe.

Once the transfer was on and sealed and left to dry overnight it was time to photograph.

Remember the damage on the top,

Check out that gorgeous top NOW!!

That gorgeous grain just POPS now!

And how cute is that graphic.

There was more to the transfer but I customized mine to fit my piece.

Here she is in all her glory.

Her new refinished top,

revived hardware,

a paint job,

and a cute as a button transfer.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover.
I have been in facebook jail for over a month, with no response from facebook (I am not allowed to share my own stuff but allowed to share everyone else)
So if you want to keep up with my your best bet is Instagram Stories.
You can click HERE to see those.
That shows the day to day projects.
I would love to see you over there!
Until next time,
Have a Beautiful day! 

Custom Blue Empire Buffet Makeover

Welcome back my Beauties!

Do I have a doozie for you today!

I have been bustin my bootie with my daughters graduation and everything that goes with it and have not had a ton of time to work on projects.

But I decided to join a little blog hop with some friends of mine 

over at Creative Vintage Darlings and that motivated me to get my rear in gear. (If you are a lover of all things vintage, come join us on our facebook page)

It just so happened that I picked up the gorgeous yet very damaged empire style buffet at a thrift shop and it inspired me to drop everything I was doing and makeover this piece.

I know from the first picture it looks like its in pretty good shape, but if you look closer you can see the major amount of damage to the veneer on the drawers.

I swear they used cement on this top drawer and no amount of sanding could budge that ridge they had built up.

I thought I would only be able to save the top since it was the only thing with no damage.

Also, as luck would have it, it wasn't attached to the top which made it a little easier to refinish.

The finish was pretty gone so I just used my Sander to take of the old finish pretty easily.

After going through my different grit sandpapers to smooth it out,

I wiped the whole thing with a tack cloth

to pick up any debris left from sanding.

Minwax wipe on poly

Since the grain was so beautiful I didn't even want to bother with staining it, and chose to just simply use a couple coats of Wipe on Poly to protect it! 

After seeing the top of this piece saved I decided to take the one and only drawer without heavy damage and carefully do the same thing I did to the top. 

I was THRILLED with how gorgeous the grain was on these two pieces.

As for the rest of the piece I decided on a custom combo of

General finishes Milk Paint

I used a 4-1 combo of

Coastal Blue and Persian Blue

I reattached the top and all the hardware and put this baby back together again.

Just look at how that grain POPS agains the blue paint.

Speaking of grain...any expert know the type.

I was convinced it was walnut but the top has me stumped.

I would almost swear it was rosewood from

the looks of the refinished top.
I have never seen the grain on walnut like this, but I can't tell if its just the mirror image that they used on the two halves or what?

If you know, let me know so I can finally know; ya know! :)

I am in love and can tell this is gonna be a hard piece to let go of.

My back is killing me from all the sanding and moving it around but I truly believe it was worth it to transform it from something that someone donated all broken apart,

To something that looks like this now!

It was just the motivation I needed to get moving on some pieces.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover and hope you will hop on over to see what other vintage goodies all my other friends have to show off!

Now I would love it if you HOPPED on over to all my vintage friends pages and checked out what goodies they have!
I know you won't be disappointed !

Until next time have a Beautiful day! 

Lora B. Create and Ponder // ArtisBeauty.net // Sweet Pea

 

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