UPCYCLING: Bedroom furniture

Coming soon - Vintage Wardrobe

For the last couple of weeks I have been working on this

stunning vintage wardrobe.

This lovely piece came to me via my son

and pals who happened to be making a delivery into london and discovered 

the previous owner was actually on route to the tip with it!

fortunately for me they rescued it 

and brought it home to me. Yay!

 I have to say it feels like this piece

has taken me so long to complete-

its been three weeks now  but I'm

happy to say I'm almost there just finishing off with Annie Sloan wax.

When I'm working with Annie Sloan paint before I get started I usually pour

some into a old jam jar ( keep the lids) and add a little water I find it glides

on nicely but it also thickens up as you go along also this way its less messy

and you only use what you need - I finish up with a thicker top coat 

I find this gives you a smoother finish if that's what your working towards

with this piece I wanted to achieve a smooth finish- not to shabby.

 

On a normal day if I'm focused it would usually take me a week to

complete - obviously depending on the condition and size of the furniture but

  I have been distracted with some shopping - of the furniture kind,

so on the positive side I have a couple of  lovely items to get working

on soon : - ) 

 

The wardrobe needed some fixing up nothing too major it did
have a pretty vintage fabric pinned onto the inside back panel
which unfortunately didn't wash up well enough to keep and
maybe replace.

 A good old wash down with sugar soap and  I got started. 

 

For this wardrobe I decided on the fabulous Annie Sloan chalk paint and

chose  'Paris grey' one of my favourites . For the interior I will be adding

a little pops of colour! and pretty 

gold leaf to the mouldings.