I call her... Queen Antoinette

I found her on the classified furniture ads and I couldn't resist but go pick this gorgeous dresser up.  The condition of this dresser was great structurally, but the paint on this piece of furniture was horrible to say the least.

 *This is her after I spent 1.5 hours sanding through her 5, yes 5! layers of paint.
*If you look really close in the below picture you will see that I sanded down to a hand painted flower on one of the drawers.  IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL!  I wish I could have kept it, but it was too far gone to salvage, but this is why I love doing these things is because you can see all of these layers of history within the dresser!

I decided to paint this piece with Drizzle by Sherwin Williams paint in an eggshell finish and a custom warm silver paint by Ralph Lauren.  When doing furniture that have all of these accents, I find it best to hand paint with a small brush all of the accents first and then paint the main color around the accents, you will get a much crisper line if you do this rather than the other way around.   As you will learn from my future posts, I LOVE this color and I call it Tiffany Blue.  There is something about this color that goes great in every house and it is warm and so inviting.  

About me and my crazy obsession...

I decided to start a blog about all of my furniture up cycling projects.  Not sure if I am doing this to share my ideas or to promote self-therapy for my obsession that sometimes "gets out of hand" according to my husband:)  I am an Army wife to my amazing husband and I a momma to 2 golden retrievers.  I have grown up on a farm all of my life doing everything that boys can do, but better:)  After I punch the timecard at the end of the day, I go home and put on my painting clothes and go to work doing what I LOVE to do... sand, paint; sometimes not in that order.  There is something about taking an old piece of furniture that someone would rather throw in a dumpster and put a little (sometimes a lot) of elbow grease into the furniture, add a dash of paint and a pinch of hope and create a beautiful  upcycled piece of furniture that will go to a home that will appreciate it.  I look forward to sharing my upcoming projects on my blog and get input on ideas, questions, and comments that you have.