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Rachelirl
28-06-2012, 01:39 PM
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.

Annabee
29-06-2012, 04:56 PM
Well done! I think you did a beautiful job!

Rachelirl
01-07-2012, 09:29 PM
Well done! I think you did a beautiful job!

thank you very much

Chris P
01-07-2012, 09:43 PM
Fantastic work, Rachelirl.

Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

Regards
Chris P
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jeep2
04-07-2012, 10:46 PM
Great job well done

melissabell
05-07-2012, 12:31 PM
That looks fantastic!!! Well done ;)

rubyruby
21-07-2012, 08:27 PM
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

Rachelirl
23-07-2012, 09:07 AM
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.

Rachel