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Little French Gray Buffet

I broke my self-imposed furniture diet to buy this piece at Deseret Industries…how could I resist?  

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Although the body was in pretty good shape, the top had been scratched up quite a bit.

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I painted the base with the same color as my other gray buffet, but I used it in my homemade chalk paint recipe. 

The proportions are 2 T. unsanded tile grout mixed with 2 T. water, then mixed in to 1 c. latex paint.

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Then I used a little white chalk paint (homemade) to dry-brush over all the details.

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The handles are original; I just re-painted them with oil-rubbed bronze spray paint.

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The top did not quite turn out like I envisioned!  I wanted a stained top, but I wasn’t crazy about the color of the wood next to the gray.  So it actually ended up getting stained darker than it looks in these pictures…but I sold it before I took an after-the-after picture!

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Guess that’s not really something to complain about, is it??

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