Stunning decorated chest of drawers - gothic creatures design
Hello and thanks for stopping at my listing for this newly finished chest of drawers.
The project has taken a lot of workshop time to complete, and it is now ready for a new home, looking great with the Natural History Museum inspired drawer fronts.
These were my processes.
Cleaning throughout, before repairing. The large surfaces of this antique chest of drawers could not be saved. They needed flexible wood filler in several places and therefore a painted surface was the only solution.
The paint I chose to use was one of my favourites - a limited edition colour, 'midnight moment' in recycled chalk paint made by Dulux's community repaint brand, recolour.
The locks on each drawer front were removed and freed from all the dust inside the mechanism, then replaced. They work with the key provided but a better key would improve the lock aesthetically and functionally.
For the drawer fronts, I used 150 gsm paper from a design inspired by the Natural History Museum, called Fierce Creatures, featuring gothic styled lions, and placed the pattern very carefully, for symetry.
For the top drawers I used a gold leaf base, which I aged using craquleure products by Annie Sloan and dark wax by the same brand. I then cut out the creatures from the print and other motifs and placed them carefully on the gold leaf base.
I also used the gold leaf on the two front facing side columns of the chest, before completing the treatment with clear wax to protect the finish, followed by a light buffing to give a solid but antiqued finish allover.
I hope you like the design, and if you have any questions please do get in touch.
Thank you for looking at my upcycling work, and for shopping sustainably.
The project has taken a lot of workshop time to complete, and it is now ready for a new home, looking great with the Natural History Museum inspired drawer fronts.
These were my processes.
Cleaning throughout, before repairing. The large surfaces of this antique chest of drawers could not be saved. They needed flexible wood filler in several places and therefore a painted surface was the only solution.
The paint I chose to use was one of my favourites - a limited edition colour, 'midnight moment' in recycled chalk paint made by Dulux's community repaint brand, recolour.
The locks on each drawer front were removed and freed from all the dust inside the mechanism, then replaced. They work with the key provided but a better key would improve the lock aesthetically and functionally.
For the drawer fronts, I used 150 gsm paper from a design inspired by the Natural History Museum, called Fierce Creatures, featuring gothic styled lions, and placed the pattern very carefully, for symetry.
For the top drawers I used a gold leaf base, which I aged using craquleure products by Annie Sloan and dark wax by the same brand. I then cut out the creatures from the print and other motifs and placed them carefully on the gold leaf base.
I also used the gold leaf on the two front facing side columns of the chest, before completing the treatment with clear wax to protect the finish, followed by a light buffing to give a solid but antiqued finish allover.
I hope you like the design, and if you have any questions please do get in touch.
Thank you for looking at my upcycling work, and for shopping sustainably.
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Hello and thanks for stopping at my listing for this newly finished chest of drawers.
The project has taken a lot of workshop time to complete, and it is now ready for a new home, looking great with the Natural History Museum inspired drawer fronts.
These were my processes.
Cleaning throughout, before repairing. The large surfaces of this antique chest of drawers could not be saved. They needed flexible wood filler in several places and therefore a painted surface was the only solution.
The paint I chose to use was one of my favourites - a limited edition colour, 'midnight moment' in recycled chalk paint made by Dulux's community repaint brand, recolour.
The locks on each drawer front were removed and freed from all the dust inside the mechanism, then replaced. They work with the key provided but a better key would improve the lock aesthetically and functionally.
For the drawer fronts, I used 150 gsm paper from a design inspired by the Natural History Museum, called Fierce Creatures, featuring gothic styled lions, and placed the pattern very carefully, for symetry.
For the top drawers I used a gold leaf base, which I aged using craquleure products by Annie Sloan and dark wax by the same brand. I then cut out the creatures from the print and other motifs and placed them carefully on the gold leaf base.
I also used the gold leaf on the two front facing side columns of the chest, before completing the treatment with clear wax to protect the finish, followed by a light buffing to give a solid but antiqued finish allover.
I hope you like the design, and if you have any questions please do get in touch.
Thank you for looking at my upcycling work, and for shopping sustainably.
The project has taken a lot of workshop time to complete, and it is now ready for a new home, looking great with the Natural History Museum inspired drawer fronts.
These were my processes.
Cleaning throughout, before repairing. The large surfaces of this antique chest of drawers could not be saved. They needed flexible wood filler in several places and therefore a painted surface was the only solution.
The paint I chose to use was one of my favourites - a limited edition colour, 'midnight moment' in recycled chalk paint made by Dulux's community repaint brand, recolour.
The locks on each drawer front were removed and freed from all the dust inside the mechanism, then replaced. They work with the key provided but a better key would improve the lock aesthetically and functionally.
For the drawer fronts, I used 150 gsm paper from a design inspired by the Natural History Museum, called Fierce Creatures, featuring gothic styled lions, and placed the pattern very carefully, for symetry.
For the top drawers I used a gold leaf base, which I aged using craquleure products by Annie Sloan and dark wax by the same brand. I then cut out the creatures from the print and other motifs and placed them carefully on the gold leaf base.
I also used the gold leaf on the two front facing side columns of the chest, before completing the treatment with clear wax to protect the finish, followed by a light buffing to give a solid but antiqued finish allover.
I hope you like the design, and if you have any questions please do get in touch.
Thank you for looking at my upcycling work, and for shopping sustainably.
