Pallet for Home: Foyer Chest of Drawers

Foyer Chest of Drawers

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Please come on in and meet the new member of our family.

I must start by saying that I am sorry that I teased everyone with all the color options that I shared in my Photoshop collage. I really am thinking about repainting her (yes, I am going to refer to her in the female sense), but something stopped me quickly….. the approaching holidays!!

Please , please, please tell me that the majority of you decorate your homes with the holidays in mind. The color that I am thinking about painting her just wouldn’t go with my winter holiday decor. Is that silly?

So if I remember, in January, I think I might try giving her a new color.

I purchased this sweet chest of drawers at the local flea market about a month ago. From looking at the before photo you don’t see all the chips on her top and at the drawer edges. I could have fixed it and restained, but I have a lot of stained furniture in my home and really wanted to add a painted piece.

I broke down and placed my first order of chalk paint. This piece is painted in Old White.

Distressed.

Here is the reason that this piece took me a month to finish~

I added another top over the existing top. (see top left photo) This was way over my head and I had to have my Dad do most of the work. Two Poplar planks were glued together, then the edges were routered to marry the two tops, and then stained a dark Walnut.

I used the original knobs.

I love this unique copper emblem from the manufacture in the side of one drawer. I didn’t show a photograph of it but the drawers are dovetailed (a sign of good craftsmanship).

In this top drawer there is a divider.(bottom right photo) I don’t know much about furniture, does anyone know it’s purpose?

I was a little shocked at the size of the holes behind the knobs and that’s part the reason why I didn’t change out the knobs. The other reason is that the ones that I want to replace them with haven’t gone on sale yet. lol.