Turn Your Rummage Sale, Vintage Dresser Find Into a Tuscan-Style Look-Alike With Paint

Jasmin
by Jasmin
Bought from a church rummage sale about a year and a half ago. No one wanted it because it was so big and bulky and old. This vintage dresser, however, is solid wood. About 72 inches long. And ready for a gorgeous paint technique. It was so heavy we needed a few brawny guys to muscle it into our SUV.
It did have it's flaws . . .
You can't really see some of the badly marred surfaces on the top and drawers from the pic, but they are there.
Once home, however, I couldn't decide what to do with it. For months the dresser sat in my front room. So many ideas tumbled around in a sporadic, spastic-like way:


Decoupage wine labels here and there for a Mediterranean-like theme?


Paint it black and distress it a la Pottery Barn?


Slap on a vintage image, paint the whole thing red with gold accents and


make it really different?


And then I came across this, all for a mere $3400.00! (That's three thousand, four hundred dollars for those of you who accidentally slipped from your chair when you were slapped with all the zeros on the page):
From Accents of Salado
From Accents of Salado
Doing the usual couple coats of paint and calling it a day was clearly not the way to go here. The colors, the blending, the effort were what really made the painted buffet above stand out. And the Tuscan style would pretty much bang up my mundane decor. Big plus: it wasn't $3400.00!


After cleaning and priming, I base coated the entire dresser in yellow, and built up layers from there. Let’s just say, there was a whole lot of drying time in between, like the whole thing maybe took two weeks. What do you think?
I moved my new Tuscan-style dresser into the family room where it serves as a Media cabinet for a flat screen TV. The storage is phenomenal and it really classes up the place (if you ignore the jumbo-size dog bed nearby).
Thanks for reading. Please share!


UPDATE: Want to achieve this same Old World Tuscan look? Click here for a step by step tutorial:


http://wynnandwhimsy.com/2015/07/09/tutorial-how-to-achieve-an-old-world-look/
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