Birthday Present

At the Spring Market last month, I met a woman who wanted to re-decorate her daughter's bedroom for a birthday present. She already owned a lovely vintage-y bedroom set which included a queen-size headboard, a nightstand, a 6-foot dresser, and a tri-fold mirror. However, it was boring BROWN, and the finish on top of the nightstand and dresser was in bad shape. She had already started sanding the headboard down to paint it, but quickly tired of the project.




Here are some "in progress" shots. Don't you love the pretty carved details on the bottom of the dresser and the cupboard doors?





The paint color I used is "Pillar White" from Behr Ultra. The bedroom was going to have white wainscotting and gray paint, so we chose to glaze the furniture with black to show off the pretty details and set it apart from the wainscotting.



I kept the original handles, but painted them white. Then I dry-brushed silver, and then black paint over them to highlight the details and give the a little instant "age." I really loved how they turned out.


Hard to take a good picture of a huge mirror! I was too nervous to set it up without having at least two people to brace it. The thought of breaking that enormous bevel-edge mirror almost gave me hives!