Chest of Drawers Revamp - The Result

I'm delighted to say that my chest of drawers is complete and I am very happy with the result.  It looks great in my room and has received the thumbs up from friends and family that have seen it.

The final finishing of this little piece really made the difference and gave it an appropriately aged vintage look.  Here are some pics of how it looks now and how it used to look - a big change for the better:

I hope you enjoyed following my progress with this piece of furniture, drop back soon to see what I have in store for two bedside lockers that have seen better days.  Let me know what you think of my work on Funky Junk Facebook or at the bottom of this post.

Chest of Drawers Makeover - Découpage

My chest of drawers revamp is going well and since my last post I have distressed the drawer edges which has made a difference but I haven't been entirely happy with the drawer pulls. I went shopping to check out if there was anything nice out there that would suit the style but came upon nothing.  I checked online and wasn't happy with anything there either so I decided to try a little découpage on the originals to see if I could make them look a bit more unusual - time to take out my box of paper scraps and get cutting.  This is what I came up with...

Drawer Découpaged with Roses

I decided not to do all four drawers the same and choose this 'lace' cut out for two of them.

Drawer Découpaged with 'Lace'

All four together...

They've still got to be waxed to 'dirty' them up a bit and to seal them but they're almost done and I'm pretty happy with the result.   I Hope you enjoyed looking at my work, don't forget that anything you see on my blog can be commissioned, I can revamp a piece you already own or you can let me know what you want and I can provide it finished to your specification or finish it similar to what you have seen on Funky-Junk.  Your feedback is always welcome so please leave any comments below.

Chest of Drawers Makeover - Distressing

Easter took up quite a bit of time in my schedule and I did enjoy every minute decorating the eggs and making the little bags.  However, I'm delighted to get back to the furniture - the pine chest of drawers was what I was working on last (among other things!) and as I have a queue of other things to do I'd better get along with it!

It it coming along nicely and in the pics below you can see where I have put the knobs back and started some distressing at the edges.  A little more distressing around the drawers next and then I will move on to the next stage. Looking good so far.  Hope you enjoy looking, come back soon for more on this lovely little piece.

 

Chest of Drawers Makeover - Drawer Interiors

In my last post on the chest of drawers I had painted the body of the chest cream with some homemade chalk paint and I had painted the drawers using two colours - cream for the sides and edges and for the fronts, a taupe (also using my homemade chalk paint recipe).  I was going to just leave the insides unpainted but they looked a bit unfinished so I painted the interior sides of the drawers taupe and then I lined them using the wallpaper that I had used on an earlier project.  This is how they looked during and after.

I think the wallpaper made a big difference and finished it off nicely.  Happy days! Come back soon to see my next post where I will be doing something different with the drawer pulls/knobs.

Thanks for looking.