REFINISHING AN OLD CHEST

Usually I would show the before of a project

before I show the after, but this one turned out

so good I wanted it to be the first picture you saw.

This is a chest that a friend gave me that had been his mothers'.

Maybe 60-70 years old.

This is the before picture.

It had once been stained and his mother had

painted over that.

Being that it is so old I don't think it had been

primed before it was painted.

Here's more of a close up.

As you can see the paint was cracked and peeling.

But I saw potential.

After scrapping, sanding, more scrapping and more sanding

I was finally able to start priming.

For some reason I failed to get a picture of the piece before

I started the priming. Just let me say, it

was a lot of work.

But anyway, here are the drawers all primed and ready for paint.

Here they are painted and ready for the antiquing step.

I took off the brass hardware and just washed

them in warm soapy water.

Here they are all cleaned up.

Here are some close up shots.

I thought the antiquing would show off the details of the chest.

Quite a bit of fancy details.

Fancy feet on the front.

More detail.

Another shot of the full piece.

I decided to put it upstairs in the kids bedroom.

Those are the kids piggy banks.

But there you have it, my new-old chest.

The Lord is my light and my salvation-

whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life-

of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 27:1

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