Last week I picked up this guy at the Salvation Army.
He (yes, it is a he) needed some love as you can see. He had a broken leg (which I repaired before taking this picture) and those horrible handles needed to be removed, and holes filled. It was a shame that I had to fill holes, because I would have liked to have kept the wood grain showing. Anyhow, once all the repairs were made, I sanded the entire piece, and sanded off the old paint. I didn't have quite the color I wanted on hand so I mixed up a few colors and created a peacock blue. I painted the entire piece, distressed it lightly, waxed it, added sparkly new knobs, and voila!
Much better!
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63 comments:
That is a beautiful color - wow!
Stacey
You are a furniture painting machine!! This piece turned out beautiful! Love the color!!
Gorgeous! I'll send you a proper email in the morning about yesterday's post. sorry you had that happen to you (brave you for sharing!)
cheers Fiona
Very pretty. Now he's like a metro sexual guy. Lol
You know I love it! I tried to sell it to Brooke! ;)
What a beautiful color! Wow!
Oooooooh!!!!!!!! I want that!!
I really like that piece. It is funky and cute all wrapped up in one rectangular package.
Love the color and the piece! Great job!
Such a fun color!!
What a unique piece! I've never seen one like that! Love the color you chose...can't go wrong with that!
oh my gosh, that color is perfect!!!
you really amaze me. i've been working all week on one piece and it's still not done. anyway--you can't go wrong with peacock blue and it looks fabulous on that piece.
The color is perfect and looks great on that shape!
Fab-U-Lous!!! Love the color!
That's about the color we're painting the kitchen. Love it!
And I love the lines of the piece. That midcentury modern look is awesome. My friend just bought a house built in 1950, and I'm trying to come up with a gift for the new place. I'll be on the lookout for something like this!
That's a gorgeous shade of blue, lovely job!
Sooooo much better...and those knobs...yummy... I've changed my mind. I want a mid-century house now. Guess I'll have to break the news to Morgan...
Love that piece. You did a great job. beautiful color. What color is that? I need to paint a desk for my son and I love the color that you used.
You knock projects out so fast! Wish you were here to do my daughter's dresser. I'm procrastinating...
Love it! I have fun mixing paint colors, the only problem is, those are usually the colors everyone likes best and I can't remember how to make it again!
Great color - the piece looks totally different all painted up!
Wow--that color and those knobs are beautiful!
Gorgeous! I love it. I pretty much love anything in blue. It just makes me happy.
Great Color!!
Ooh---aahhh! Love it!
I always love your use of color! You inspire me both professionally and personally. I heart you big time, friend!
What a groovy midcentury modern piece! Love the peacock blue color. I'm loveing those peacock feather colors right now. Spring must be around the corner!
What a great find, we used to have an awesome salvation army store that only sold furniture and home goods but they closed it. Love that color and sideboards make great tv stands these days.
Awesome. I want to make a bloggie stamp that when I reply in the comment box I just stamp the 'Bliss thinks this is awesome' stamp, cause that says it all.
~Bliss~
He is now a handsome prince! Gorgeous in the peacock blue. Such a great color and of course love the sparkly knobs.
Super awesome! The color is gorgeous!
One of my favorite colors!
Great color, I hop you are linking that one up all over, I can't wait to see where it ends up!
I'm so proud of you for sharing your post yesterday, you are so courageous. Thank you for bringing more humanity and truth to all of us.
Beautiful color and love the knobs!
I love HIM.
Pretty color. Love the update!
LOVE the color! What a pretty piece he is!
It looks great!!
I'm loving all the deep colors I'm seeing lately! And this one is another beauty!
AHH! Beyond fabulous!!! Love this!!
Excited to get to know you through the "tribe!"
Holly @ Lifeasathrifter.com
Love the transformation and the color and your 'can-fix-anything-and-do-anything' approach. In case it's not evident yet...I love reading your blog. Brightens my day!
wow..love the color! you did a beautiful transformation! Salvo would be inspired!!
I am your newest follower..pls follow back if you can.
DROOL! I freaking love this buffet now! I love that peacock blue, especially with those cute handles!
Oh My CASSIE! This Gorgeous! The color is amazing on that piece!
What an adorable sideboard...I love the color!! Good job!!
Holy cow, that thing looks AWESOME! Perfect color, perfect hardware. Yay, so so pretty!
now that is one HOT buffet. the color allows the lines to shine! brilliant choice, cassie!
Cute piece!
she sure looks puuuuurrrrrty! :)
Love that color! And I wanted to say that it took a lot of courage to share your story yesterday. I admire your willingness to be vulnerable for the sake of others.
Sharon @ mrs. hines class
Save that color combo...it's PERFECT!!!! ;-)
Love the color and the whole piece! What a lovely job you did. Megan
What a JEWEL of a mid-century modern piece! Why don't they have furniture like that at my thrift stores, I mean fo real?!
First time on the blog. Wow, you really do a great job on redoing a piece! Very talented. However, that wood graining was beautiful and its a shame you chose to cover it. What a great example of mid-century wood work. With some proper restoration instead of maybe a complete redo, I feel that you could saved a great piece of furniture history. thoughts for next time maybe. That said, you do have a way with mixing paint and that color is beautiful!
Cassie this piece is on Apartment Therapy!
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/battered-sideboard-goes-blue-primitive-proper-166920#comments
This is gorgeous Cassie!!! I just saw it from the apt therapy Facebook post! Congrats!
I love his beautiful lines, and congrats on the AT feature!!
Very Cool! I like how you place the new knobs too ~ what at difference!!
I think someone else said it best when she said she was drooling. I love this piece and the color is just rich and delicious. Thanks for linking up to the Creative Inspirations party - please come back Thursday to link up again!
Stacey of Embracing Change
how in the world did I miss this?! Ohhhh I LOVE the color so so soooo much.
:o)
Jaime from crafty scrappy happy
First of all Miss Cassie, the fact that you got this piece last week and it's done is so annoying LOL!!I'm just sayin' this is a blue beauty I love it. It took me two weeks to paint the table I posted for Suzy's party....I'm such a slacker.
So stunning, I had to feature it!
http://makinglemonadeblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/refresh-your-nest-24.html
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