About two Memorial Days ago, I painted a chest I found at a thrift shop. It was a Thomasville chest and in great shape, but the top was formica and the body was painted a mustard yellow.
I painted it a Ralph Lauren blue, put Anthropologie knobs on it in a Chinese red color and moved it to my bedroom to mull over what to do with the top (I desperately needed storage). I considered mirror tiles, glass tiles and ceramic tiles, none of which I know how to install.
Last week I got a catalog from Paper Source and they had the most beautiful papers - but one in particular caught my eye: the one with yellow, orange and red marigolds with light blue background and a turquoise border.
This is what I came up with . I will eventually put a glass top on it, but I am still deciding if the top needs a coat of whitewash to tone down the intensity of the color. One of the cuts is not quite right, because I didn't have a large enough working surface, but I decided that is a character item, and I'll just get some blue paint for that edge or piece it with leftover paper and go with it.
Isn't the color match wonderful?
Oh yes.
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Love it.
It's great. You did good. Mama
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