Vintage Cabinet Reveal

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I used my brand-spankin' new Annie Sloan Chalk Paint for this. I love my chalk paint. I especially love that I didn't have to sand or strip this piece before painting. Isn't it lovely that a paint exists where you can just get down to the fun part of business instead of all that icky prep work? Just throw a drop cloth down and get your brush! I gave the piece 2 coats of old white. I then followed instructions by the wonderful Annie Sloan herself as well as Miss Mustard Seed and Perfectly Imperfect and worked in sections giving a clear coat of Annie's Wax before using the dark wax judiciously.

There's no reason for me to go into detail on technique when the above links do it so much better than I could. Besides, this was my first real furniture re-do, so I'm NO expert. So, I'll just say this, the best tip when adding patina to a piece of furniture: think about where the piece would be used, where it would be knocked about, tapped, scraped, where oils & dirt would gather. For instance the very bottoms of the legs would have been tapped with shoes, the doors of this cabinet would have had hands touch them, hold them open and oils would have accumulated, dirt would gather in the nooks and crannies of the scroll work because life happened...and dusting didn't. When I was thinking about creating a piece that has an old world patina on it, I was thinking of a piece that was used, children were allowed to touch it, plates and glasses were set on it. It was loved.

as a reminder, here's the before:


Here's the after:

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