Milk Pigment Carte Catalog
No, I'm non dead. The combination of gearing upwardly for Vintage Charm Holiday Boutique, together with sick kids has occupied my finally distich weeks. I definitely accept projects to share, simply gotta discovery the fourth dimension to post well-nigh them. My most recent projection I loved thus much I decided to brand fourth dimension to share.
I LOVE the vintage-industrial look. Particularly, I've been dreaming of carte du jour catalogs. Think dorsum to Library Day inward simple school.
( *For those of you lot nether 25, a library is a identify that houses books. *For those of you lot nether 20, a mass is a bunch of papers amongst words printed on them.)
Remember the procedure of looking something upwardly earlier "Google" became a verb? You accept to truly larn upwardly out of your chair, walk, using your ain ii legs, together with dig through the carte du jour catalog thus you lot could discovery a mass on the subject. I'm non going to fifty-fifty convey upwardly the Dewey Decimal System.
Anyhoo, I discovery several pieces past times simply going on Craigslist, heading to the article of furniture section, setting a cost confine together with seeing what comes up. It's similar a box of chocolates.
Last week, spell browsing, I came upon this super-cool, corporation woods CD cabinet.
I at nowadays had a vision. This cabinet was dying to kicking the bucket a carte du jour catalog.
First, I removed all fifteen woods knobs, added them to my stash, together with filled all the holes amongst Bondo. I know I've mentioned this before, but if I am going to pigment a piece, I e'er role Bondo instead of woods filler. It is thus much easier to larn a smoothen finish, doesn't shrink, together with it sands beautifully. Pretty stinky though.
After sanding the Bondo smooth, I brushed on i coat of Pitch Black past times Old Fashioned Milk Paint to both the drawer faces together with the body. Once that dried, I added simply about Snow White to the left-over dark milk paint, bringing the color downwardly to a charcoal greyness amongst a bluish undertone. Brushed that on over the black.
Oh forgot to mention, earlier applying the minute coat of pigment I applied a flake of Vaseline to the corners together with a few edges to exercise a "resist" together with travel out the dark exposed.
The milk pigment was already starting it's chippy coolness earlier the pigment was fully dry. After waiting a few hours, I took simply about steel wool together with gave the whole matter a adept rub down, releasing whatever liberate paint. I've flora steel wool plant the best for removing pigment without leaving those tell-tale sandpaper scratches.
I wanted to add together simply about richness to the color, together with add together a little.... I don't know.....grimey-ness. So, I rubbed everything downwardly amongst a coat of Antique Walnut stain, together with left it to dry out without wiping. It worked great! Kinda dirtied upwardly the complete together with settled into the cracks similar a glaze.
I sealed everything amongst ii coats of matte poly past times Rustoleum (love that stuff!), together with it was fourth dimension to attach the hardware.
I flora brass label pulls from D. Lawless Hardware for a shockingly depression price! While on the subject, I had a cracking sense amongst D. Lawless. No, they haven't given me anything to tell this, I simply wanted to percentage my pleasant experience. While ordering on-line, I accidentally typed inward my credit carte du jour pose out wrong. The side past times side day, I got a telephone phone telephone from Roberta from D. Lawless telling me the transaction couldn't process. I sorted that out, together with received my club ii days later!
While researching carte du jour catalogs, I noticed the drawer faces had ii kinds of hardware: the label holder pulls, together with a petty knob. I figured out that the petty knob is attached to the metallic stringer rod that holds all the cards inward place. I've seen article of furniture transformed into carte du jour catalogs before, but they e'er travel out that special off. I am nada if non special oriented.
Being the cheapskate I am, together with non wanting to flank out tons of cash for petty brass knobs, I wracked my encephalon for a solution. Did I refer in that location are fifteen drawers on this puppy? Anything closed I flora was over $2 each. That would cutting into my turn a profit past times almost $40.
Then I came upwardly amongst a substitute. Wood push plugs! I simply needed to pigment them together with attached them to the drawer faces similar tiny knobs.
I finished both the label holder pulls together with the push plugs inward my mistaken tarnished brass complete (tutorial coming soon), together with added them to the drawers.
I printed off simply about labels, pose the drawers dorsum in, together with here's the finally look.
I'm truly happy amongst the means the pigment turned out. It looks onetime together with worn.
I intend the push plugs worked cracking to mimic the brass knobs.
What exercise you lot think? I was going for authentic. Did I brand it? At get-go I liked the contrast of the new, white paper, but every bit I await at it more, I intend I'm going to antique the labels every bit well. Good idea?
Well, if you lot honey it, brand certain to halt past times the Vintage Charm Holiday Boutique inward Mesa, AZ on Nov. 21-23. I intend it would endure perfect inward a chamber for jewelry. I'll endure bringing it together with lots of other fun pieces to sell!
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