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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The dresser!!

It's finally done! Not without wanting to chuck it out the window a few times though. Here is what happened... I started, thinking that I would do a reverse stencil, meaning, paint over a stencil and then peel it up and it would leave the silhoutte.. easy??!?! WRONG. My first failed attempt the stencil was a disaster!! The paint leaked under it and bled everywhere and then when I peeled it, it peeled up all the paint along with it. I had to power sand all the drawers down again and start over!!! here's what happened:

Here is the dresser when I got it from CL for $20.

Here's the next thing I did. I took my Paris Grey Annie Sloan paint and painted the exterior, leaving the drawers with the original wood color.




Next.. here comes the failed decal. I applied the decal, painted primer, and then 2 coats of paint. I have no pictures of the horrific peeling because I was too annoyed to go get my camera.






Ok.. so then I screamed and ripped my hair out and sanded. here are the newly black drawers that I sprayed after sanding them down. I realized that a black silhouette would look better than the wood anyways.

Here's the NEW affixed decal.. remember the color is irrelevant since I'll be just using it as a stencil.



Here's the process of when after the drawers were painted and I began to peel up the decal. I decided to use spray paint this time so I wouldn't have that bleed that regular paint has.



And DRUMROLL PLEASE... Here is the finished dresser after waxing and distressing the edges and corners.





And lastly here are the before/afters of the mirror that goes with it.





And one last time here is the before/after:



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Somewhat Simple


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8 comments:

  1. remember, this is spoken for in your will!! ;)

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  2. LOVE it! that is awesome! love the design!!!!

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  3. Awesome!! I've been wanting to try this with a decal I have, just haven't found the right piece of furniture to use it on yet!
    This turned out so cool, I'm so glad it worked!
    Well done and thanks for sharing this!

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  4. hey, lesson(s) learned, right? and thanks for sharing those hard-learned lessons with us!!

    i think this piece looks fantastic!!

    amy

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  5. OmiGOSH, I love love LOVE this! I SO admire your persistence with the stencilling...the end result was well worth your investment of time!

    Deborah (happily visiting from http://upcyclingmylife.blogspot.com...hope you'll stop by too...)

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  6. thanks all! it will be so much easier next time I do it!

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  7. This came out darling~ what a neat piece! Thank you for sharing at Feathered Nest Friday!

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  8. A beautiful job Maria! WHERE do you find the time?!

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