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Blah Dresser to Fun Travel Trunk
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Julie Lipari
(IC: homeowner)
My friend gave me a tall dresser with a matching long dresser to play with. I had been wanting to try to figure out how to replicate an idea I saw on Pinterest of a dresser made to look like an old travel trunk.
I started out creating the leather look by painting over this laminated wood with a tan latex wall paint. Using regular tissue paper (no sparkles or colors) I folded the tissue several times and torn the edges off the paper to avoid having any lines on my project. I then crumpled up the tissue, reopened it and placed it on the wet paint and rolled out the same color latex paint over the tissue, adhering it to the drawer and allowed it to dry. You can go on youtube and find step by step instructions under faux painting leather with tissue. Once it's dry, I used a sanding block to lightly sand off the extra tissue hanging off the drawer.
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Published October 19th, 2015 6:45 PM
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Connie Hill on Jan 21, 2016Beautiful!!
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Laurie Brennan on Jan 21, 2016What a great transformation…you'd never even know it was the same piece!
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