A pair of Fifties French Provincial nightstands already had curved legs, formed tops, ornate {hardware}, and metallic wire inserts throughout the cupboard doorways. Cindy from Edith & Evelyn discovered them at an property sale and stored them in storage earlier than deciding to vary the brown wooden end whereas preserving the small print that outlined the pair.
As a substitute of overlaying the nightstands with one strong shade, she constructed the end with three paint therapies, then used glaze, wax, and gold accents throughout the raised particulars. Ornamental appliqués added to the fronts gave the paint and gilding one other floor to choose up.
Brown Wooden Coated the Pair From High to Backside
Each nightstands started with a brown wooden end throughout the tops, drawers, doorways, legs, and frames. Each bit had one drawer above a two-door cupboard, with curved openings backed by diamond-pattern metallic wire.
Ornate drawer pulls and small door knobs had been already in place, so the makeover didn’t depend upon changing the unique {hardware} or altering the cupboard construction.
Appliqués Added Element Earlier than the Paint Went On
Cindy added ornamental appliqués to the vertical sections beside the drawers and doorways earlier than portray. The raised designs gave the entrance corners extra element and created new edges and recesses for the layered end.
She has additionally shared a tutorial for making furnishings appliqués with casting resin and molds. Equal components of the two-part resin are blended and poured into molds, then eliminated earlier than the resin turns into inflexible. At that stage, the items stay versatile sufficient to comply with curved furnishings surfaces earlier than being hooked up with glue.
Three Paint Remedies Constructed the Aged Blue End
Nation Blue fashioned the bottom coat earlier than Cindy added Night Shadow as a wash. She thinned the second shade with water, labored throughout one part at a time, and wiped it again with a comfortable fabric so darker pigment remained in grooves and recessed areas.
Sea Salt went on as the ultimate paint layer with a dry-brush method. As a substitute of overlaying the darker blue, the pale shade caught raised sections and edges whereas leaving the earlier layers seen beneath it.
Glaze Darkened the Edges After the Paint Layers
A do-it-yourself glaze went over the layered paint as soon as the three colours had been in place. Cindy utilized it in sections and wiped it again, leaving extra pigment round edges, grooves, and raised particulars.
The remedy created a number of tones throughout the formed prime moderately than one flat blue floor. After the glaze dried, Cindy added clear wax, allowed it to remedy for twenty-four hours, and buffed the end.
Gold Gilding Picked Out the Authentic and Added Particulars
Gold went onto each the small print that got here with the nightstands and people added in the course of the makeover. Cindy used Rub ‘n Buff in Gold Leaf on the unique {hardware}, appliqués, and metallic wire throughout the cupboard doorways.
The gilding separates these small particulars from the muted blue background. Drawer pulls, door knobs, wire inserts, and raised appliqués now repeat the identical metallic end throughout every entrance.
Distressing Left Elements of the Authentic Wooden Seen
Among the worn impact developed whereas Cindy wiped again the Night Shadow wash. The fabric pulled paint away in locations, permitting small sections of the unique brown wooden to seem via the blue layers.
These breaks proceed round edges, legs, and the scalloped base. Darkish wash, pale dry brushing, glaze, and uncovered wooden stop the bigger painted sections from studying as a single uniform shade.
Brown Nightstands Turned Layered Blue and Gold Items
The completed pair retains the identical drawers, cupboard doorways, curved legs, formed tops, wire panels, and unique {hardware} discovered on the property sale items. Added appliqués lengthen the decoration throughout the fronts with out altering the unique furnishings structure.
Nation Blue, Night Shadow, and Sea Salt stay seen as separate components of the end, whereas glaze settles into the small print and gold marks the {hardware}, wire, and appliqués.
Would you select this layered blue end or hold the unique brown wooden?
All picture credit: Cindy, Edith & Evelyn.
