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Old Posted: 28-06-2012 , 01:39 PM #1
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This is an old chest of drawers that was fit for the skip! I did a decoupage job on the top of it with copies of sheet music copied and printed of Google images and painted the unit in Annie Sloan blue/grey chalk paint and then waxed it. I had intended to change the handles but didn't end up doing this as the original ones looked better than silver ones I was going to put on it.
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Old Posted: 29-06-2012 , 04:56 PM #2
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Well done! I think you did a beautiful job!
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Old Posted: 01-07-2012 , 09:29 PM #3
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Well done! I think you did a beautiful job!

thank you very much
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Old Posted: 01-07-2012 , 09:43 PM #4
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Fantastic work, Rachelirl.

Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

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Old Posted: 04-07-2012 , 10:46 PM #5
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Great job well done
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Old Posted: 05-07-2012 , 12:31 PM #6
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That looks fantastic!!! Well done ;)
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Old Posted: 21-07-2012 , 08:27 PM #7
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These look really great, before you started is the wood laminated,if so what paint did you use, I have a white one, and would love to paint, yours turned out really great, well done
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Old Posted: 23-07-2012 , 09:07 AM #8
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Hi Ruby,

It was a laminated one. It's not solid wood. The paint I actually used is Annie Sloan chalk paint with a coat of wax over the paint. You could use gloss paint either with a coat of primer underneath the paint. If you can't get the gloss colour you want - you could buy a few small pots of different colours and mix them to come up with various other colours etc. I've done this in the past and it can work out very well. I just measure the paint with spoons.

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