A Fairy Tale Piece

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A few weeks ago on a Friday I drove all the way to Bostic, North Carolina to pick up this:

This photo was taken out in our garage and there it has sat until about 3 days ago.  If you’ve been reading this blog for any time at all you have read somewhere that I love French furniture.  This is a 1957 Broyhill French Provincial Chest of drawers and as stuff I haul home goes?  It is in excellent shape ya’ll!  Budget wise, I do not have that luxury too often.  And I did take my sweet time deciding how I wanted to approach the refinishing on this one.  Painting it was on the table.  But while I was sanding the old finish off the top the wood grain was amazing!  So I just kept on sanding and I am sooooo glad I was patient with this piece.

Lord, the drawers!

I am pretty sure it would have been some kind of sin to paint these drawers ya’ll.  They really came alive when I stained them.  This is Minwax Jacobean wood stain and then sealed in their polyurethane in a satin finish.  I have to also point out that I am not at all crazy about French Provincial hardware but on this one it really suits the piece.  These pulls a very intricate and lacey, very romantic like a fairy tale which is so fitting for a French piece.

The original escutcheon plate was even there!

You may recall that I have refinished another one of these.

 It had different hardware and was much smaller though.

The rest of the chest is painted in 3 coats of General Finishes Perfect Gray.

And those drawers???

Alas, I used every scrap of this oh, so lovely swan wallpaper  …….  but it was well worth it :)))

I am so happy with this one ya’ll !

Thanks for stopping by to see me 🙂

Paige