I was just driving down the road minding my own business coming back from getting strawberries from a strawberry farm when I saw this piece sitting outside in someone's dirt driveway. I did a double take and decided to pull on in! As I pulled in a man came around to the front and I asked him if it was for sale! I got it for $85!!
It needed a lot of work and attention. It had what appeared to be a suede-type finish on the drawer fronts and they were so dried out and shriveled that I knew it just had to be painted to salvage it. The top hadn't been well tended to either over time as you can see above. It had missing laminate in some spots and a broken applique.
I started with a good washing and then sanding. This little fella decided to pop out of the deepest and darkest crevice of the drawer cavities at one point.
I primed this piece due to the dark finish it already had to try to prevent color bleeding through and then I painted it a Duck Egg blue, Old White, and Paris Grey from the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint line. I decided to accentuate certain features, as well as the legs, with the white and gray colors. Chalk paint is not easy when trying to apply carefully, as it is designed to be applied haphazardly so if you are wanting to detail a piece, be prepared to become part contortionist and for lying on your back on floors after lying pieces down on their backs. I went with the Paris Grey around the mirror as well.
I decided to put new drawer pulls on this piece that I had bought at Hobby Lobby that were too white initially, so I slapped on some Old White to better match this piece and painted the insides of the drawers the Paris Grey. I finished it all with a clear wax after some very light distressing.
The mirror also had some minor desilvering marks due to it's age.
(Mirror desilvering)
Here is the finished piece!
