Buttery Goodness

Just so you guys don't think I'm a total color junkie, I decided to something a little more sedate. This may sound goofy, but I look at a piece and let the color speak to me. Huh?? Ok, break out the tarot cards. No, I mean, I never like to go against the piece. I don't want to force it to be something than it really is. Ok, I sound like a complete whack-job. I like to wear those nice white coats with the funny sleeves!  No, really, I just like to keep it real. Oh shut-up already.   Here is the newest member.

Not really sure why my dog is tasting the mirror. 

So I found this off of CL (surprise!). The entire piece is veneered in birds-eye maple.

I haven't seen this type of dresser done in this wood. Usually it's oak or mahogany. 

It wasn't in terrible shape but the veneer wasn't all that great that I would have wanted to leave

it unpainted. At some point it had been painted white and the people I got it from stripped 

down to it's original state. They didn't do all that bang up of a job. 

 There was some water damage and the veneer was lifting pretty good along the bottom.

Glue and wood filler fixed this issue. However, I had no choice but to paint it now. 

Here's a quick peek after waxing in the garage. I decided to leave the top as is. Just cleaned it up and 

applied a new coat of stain. This was such a warm piece so I chose a soft buttery yellow. I love the way it plays up the golden tones in the wood and key hole covers. As usual, I made my own chalk paint.

I had a Behr "oops" sample of this yellow. I used every last drop. 

 Those original handles had to go!  Luckily I had 6 of these mother-of- pearl knobs from Hobby Lobby  that went perfectly with the color! 

I thought I would try something different and stencil the sides. I had some MS semi-gloss paint in "Custard" that I thought would contrast nicely. However, after I pulled the stencil away, you could barely see it. I wanted it faint, but not this faint! I didn't have enough of the other to paint over it, so I just left it. 

I also refinished the mirror. Restained and coated with dark wax. 

The top got a acrylic top coat.

The drawers were in pretty good shape, but the actual bottoms were icky. I always like to line the drawers to jazz things up a bit!  This piece is going up " For Sale!!"

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