This cabinet was a bit of a steal, it’s big and spacious, just what I needed for my studio makeover. Sturdy, but needed some love.
Inspired by all of the period tv shows I watch about kings and queens of Europe, I wanted to use Marie Antoinette colors on it.
And to age the brand new blush, soft blue, and gold I’d just added.
I add grout to my paint, and use a crackle medium sparingly, not all over. This is a piece of furniture not faux gator skin, I sincerely dislike overly fake crackly paint jobs.
And when I “distress” the paint, I go for it heavily with a sander to save my poor, old, tired hands. Daintily roughing up corners with a scrap of sandpaper is hard on the finger joints.
So I give it a blast of the sander, which of course, leaves a trail.
That is a simple fix. I touch up the zigs and zags with a rough brush dipped into the paint color that I just sanded.
Much better, no tell tale marks from the sander, just some skips in the paint that show the underlying wood.
After that, it gets a coffee colored glaze painted on and wiped off.
I still need to find two knobs for the drawer. And I will rub a bar of soap or a candle along the drawer runners to make it slide easily.
After it was done, it reminded me of something….
I remembered that I had some gorgeous old wallpaper in these colors!
Perfect!
I didn’t even care that I’d already gone to the trouble of painting the interior. I was happy to cover up that work with this pretty paper.
And I am looking forward to seeing it in place in my newly redone studio.