Friday, October 14, 2011

Antique Vanity refinished

My kids great-grandma gave this lovely vanity to my daughter...

It's an old antique vanity that has definitely seen its share of years.  The wear and tear on it was numerous and the amount of time I spent on it was many hours.  It really took me months to do, but that is because it was hard to strip all the paint off and so I could only get an hour here or an hour there to work on it.  Here is what it looked like after I got done sanding as much as I could off...


Then I got some water-based stripper and covered the remainder of the paint.  It still took a while but I finally was able to get most of the old pink and green paint off!  As you can see, I could not get everything, but I sanded the remainder down as well as I could.



Then I painted the entire vanity this color...







This color showed every knick and disfiguration, which really bugged me!  I almost sanded it down again, but I don't think this wood can take much more sanding.  So I got my handy burnt amber glaze out and wiped the vanity down with it.  I made sure I wiped off any excess with another rag as I went along, so it wouldn't over power the blue.  Here's the glaze...


And here is the final product...






We still have to get some of the paint off the mirror, because I was too lazy to tape it.  But it shouldn't be too hard.  Definitely easier than stripping that paint!  My daughter loves the final outcome and really that is all that matters.




2 comments:

  1. I'm always on the lookout for an old antique vanity, and I love what you've done with this one. Good job!

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  2. Wow Nicole, you have some real talent there. That looks great!

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