Hello everyone, Linda from Q is for Quandie here!
I’m in love with this pretty little dresser! But this piece needed a few repairs before I could paint it.
Materials List:
- French Linen
- No Pain Gel Stain in Walnut
- Prima Transfer
How To:
The rest was easy. I sanded it lightly, vacuumed away the dust and wiped it down with a damp rag. Then I painted it in two coats of Dixie Belle’s French Linen.
French Linen is one of those chameleon like colors that totally changes depending on the lighting and the colors around it. It’s a muddy grey-brown with a tiny hint of a lavender undertone. I didn’t see the lavender while painting the piece in the artificial lighting of my piano room after dark, but once I pulled the piece in front of my white wall on a bright, sunny day I could see it.
Once the paint dried, I added re.design with prima’s Carte Postale transfer.
As for the knobs … well, I thought about replacing them with glass knobs. That certainly would have been pretty.
But instead I cleaned up the original wood knobs using Dixie Belle’s No Pain Gel Stain in Walnut because that didn’t cost anything.
This is something to keep in mind. This is an oil based product and takes longer to dry than the typical products I work with (6 to 8 hours according to the label).
The wooden knobs give this piece a totally different look than glass knobs would have, don’t you think?
To learn more about this painted piece, head to Q is for Quandie here!
