This is my first attempt at refinishing a piece in Miss Mustard Seed style. I found her blog a few months ago and I really admire her work. I have repainted and stripped furniture before, but I had never done distressing or glazing so I wanted to give it a try.
Here is the before...
I got this little knickknack shelf off of Craigslist for $25. It needed a little bit of repair, in fact, I ended up tearing the whole thing apart and gluing all of the spindles with gorilla glue (best stuff ever).
Here are the after pictures...
After the blue dried, I distressed it with some sandpaper. I didn't go too crazy. Just a little bit on the spindles and the front edges. Then I glazed it using some dark walnut stain. The stain totally changed the tone of the blue. It now looks much more blue-green.
I placed it in our office/playroom to take these pictures as this room gets a lot of natural light. I will be moving it upstairs later. We have a little nook at the end of the hallway upstairs that needs dressing up, but it is fairly dark in that spot so I knew I wouldn't get any good pictures up there to show you. The hallway is painted in a shell white so the blue-green of the shelf will really stand out nicely.
Can you tell I have been playing around in Picasa?
I think it looks good in the pictures and from a distance, but up close I am not sure that I like the glazing. It kind of makes it look a little dirty and sloppy, of course, it could just be my technique. I think the distressing is nice although my husband does not get the distressing and glazing thing at all (why I ask his opinion I don't know since I am just going to do what I want anyways). He doesn't understand messing up a perfectly good paint job. He thinks then it just looks like it needs to be painted again. For now it is going to stay this way as I think I may come to appreciate it more over time.
What do you guys think? Glaze or no glaze?
I linked up to the party.
I linked up to the party.
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p.s. I forgot to tell you that the original feet on the bottom were rotten so I had to remove them and throw them out. I had intended to hit the home depot to get replacements but I didn't get around to it. When I went to take pictures today, it looked weird just putting the bottom shelf directly on the floor. So I stuck some cans of tuna under the bottom. Yep, tuna. And they are the perfect height so I think I may just gorilla glue them there for now because you can't really see them, and I am all about the easy breezy solution:)
I think I like the tuna can feet solution the best :)
ReplyDeleteLove the new look of the shelf. I am your newest follower, I too am renovating and decorating an older home. Looking forward to more posts! Diane
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