Have you ever had a piece of furniture tell you how it wanted to be restored? I know, sounds nuts doesn't it? Well I had just such an experience with this little candlestick table I have had in storage for years. I think it had been passed around the family before I ended up with it.
Here it is before I started working on it. I had decided to paint it
with some ASCP, wax it and distress it. Then stencil No. 3 on it
representing the 3 people in our family. Well the top was wobbly and it
looked like someone had scraped off a few layers of paint and then
painted over it without sanding. So I decided to take the top of and
give it a really good sanding trying to even out the worst of the
previous paint jobs. I know ASCP is very leveling but this was really
bad. I repaired the wobble and started sanding it.
As I was sanding a funny thing happened, I was starting to like the
look of the layers of paint. The top layer was a light beige, the next
layer was light blue, the next yellow ochre, then white. When I
finished sanding/distressing it I knew I couldn't bring myself to paint
over it. I started thinking about how it really represented all our
family members and their decorating styles thru the years. So I just
waxed it and considered it finished. It now displays beach items from
our last trip to Florida with my mom in a corner of my guest bathroom.
I had some leftover shells, fans and starfish so I decided to create a framed arrangement to hang over the toilet. I can't take credit for this idea I saw it in a magazine. I can't remember which one or I would credit them. I remembered they hung an old glassless frame and then made an arrangement of items, which they attached directly to the wall. I used those scrap booking dots.
I think it turned out really nice.
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