Cinderella ……..Sort Of

******* Beer & A Lawn Chair Alert! !!!  This is one of those post that has 500 photos in it because I am just too excited about the way the piece turned out.  So get yourself a beer and a lawn chair and get comfortable, its gonna be a long one! *******

It has become increasingly more common for me to drive farther and farther away from Asheville to find my furniture pieces.  Good thing I live within 15 minutes of the South Carolina state line.  Asheville is a really not at all inexpensive place to live and I am assuming that the trickle down has now hit the secondhand furniture market.  That being said, it’s still bugging the pee  out of me but I am coming home with some really cool stuff ya’ll!

This is the photo on FB Marketplace that made me rearrange my entire day to get to this thing.

And YES I am a special kind of nuts.

I new it would need some work just by looking at the photos ………

But if I am being completely honest?

 All I saw was the feet :).

That, and the glass knobs that I didn’t have to purchase myself.

Oh.  This. Chest.

I used Fusion Mineral Paint in Champlain on her because  she needed the kind of help that very often comes with white.  This chest is a large piece of furniture with curves aplenty. From jump I had two objectives:

Clean her up & soften her up

I did change the top smaller glass knobs out for a pair of larger white ceramic ones with some silver filigree.

I took almost 3 coats to cover up the original orange finish but that had to go.  All the way back home from SC I just kept thinking soft, feminine, classic.  Her bones were beautiful to begin with.

These talons ya’ll !

I must say that I have no earthly idea what type of wood this is.  I would appreciate any help on this one from ya’ll if you know what it is.

The top was sanded down and restrained with the  Jacobean / Classic Gray mix I have been using a lot lately but this time it was a 50/50 mix.

I lit the candles in the big lantern just for fun 🙂

I have to tell ya’ll that the built in sealer in the Fusion paint is the bomb .

Have a great week!

Paige

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