Vintage Duck Egg & An Antique Chest Of Drawers

I have never been more in love and more frustrated in my life……..

But first?

This.

This is the Facebook Marketplace photo of my latest victim.  It is no secret that I love this era of furniture. Everybody I know knows it.   I mean to tell you that people on the moon know it.  I honest to God could not believe that I was the first person to respond to this ad.  Also?  Let me just say right here that this piece of furniture was in perfect shape.  The folks that I bought it from had really taken great care of it.  It was clean, the drawers worked perfectly and it smelled good.  For me personally as a furniture painter there are many, many days that I can’t even check one of those boxes.

Here’s the after.

This is Dixie Belle’s Vintage Duck Egg.  Ya’ll it is a glorious turquoise, one of my very favorite colors in the world.  True to DB standards the color went on like a dream and covered beautifully.

So what was the problem?

It was absolutely impossible to photograph this piece at my house.  I could not get a single picture of it that conveyed the actual color.  I tried for three days at different times of day and It was terrible.  I do not like to do this but I final bit the bullet and hauled the chest down to my shop and got a very few decent shots.  I don’t like to photograph stuff at my shop because the florescent lights are really harsh but all things considered the photos turned out way better that anything I could turn out on my own.

The top is a custom mix of Minwax Jacobean and Classic Gray that I used on the green pine dresser.  I am quite pleased with how it looks on the mahogany.

I really like the original drawer pulls but one was missing.  I combed Ebay and Etsy for two days but no luck.  In the back of my mind I had glass knobs as a jumping off point.  Lucky for me since I need 8 knobs, it was 50% off week at Hobby Lobby.

I did mix the pulls, smaller ornate antique brass knobs on the slim top drawer ($2 each) and these lovely swirly glass knobs ($2.50) for the rest.  I was able to find the glass know in three different sizes, small, medium which I used and a larger one.  I am already planning on using them in the future,

Paige