Bruised and Battered Turned Blue and Beautiful Dresser Makeover

This piece may have looked Bruised and battered to start with but I am so happy with her new Beautiful look. Come on over and tell me what you think!
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We are working through the winter here and keeping busy to pass the long cold winter.
One of the projects I have been working was this beat up Duncan Phyfe
Chest of drawers.
I picked it up at my local thrift shop and couldn't wait to get it home to
start working on it.
First though, I had to take care of some major cosmetic flaws.





The veneer was breaking off on parts of the drawers and a very big portion of the top.
Luckily I had come across this before.
You can see my post way back when I first started blogging
of how to repair missing veneer HERE. I will also give a quick run through for this post.





I always have rolls of iron on veneer on hand for these small little fixes.
In order to make the repair you need to even up the veneer.
I simple use a straight edge to cut the old veneer in a straight line and line up my new veneer.
Once I have it lined up I simply use my Clothes Iron to iron the veneer on.
Normally I would use a cloth on top of the piece of furniture to protect the wood finish but as you can see there wasn't a lot of hope for this piece and wasn't worried about messing up the finish so I just ironed it straight onto the dresser, repeating the process for a couple of the drawer fronts.





Once the new veneer was in place and cooled I could take my orbital sander to the piece and prep the whole thing for painting





Now it was finally time to paint.
I grabbed my General Finishes Charleton Blue Chalk Style paint and got to work.





I gave the dresser 2 coats and then lightly distressed the piece.
I also gave it a slight glaze to give it a more old looking finish.
Once that was dry I used General Finishes Satin finish to protect the piece.
While all that was drying to make the piece pop with a little detail I simply painted the
original hardware with Gold Paint.





I put all the hardware back on and the piece was ready to be photographed.





And here is her sneak peek! She is blue and Beautiful now! If you want to see the FULL transformation be sure to jump on over to my blog and see it all!






Original article and pictures take http://www.hometalk.com/13942836/bruised-and-battered-turned-blue-and-beautiful-dresser-makeover site