It wasn’t awful to begin with. But sometimes the beauty is overlooked, when your not looking! I watched this piece of Facebook go from being listed at 100$ for weeks and I got it for 35$, people had no interest in this at this point.

It’s amazing what’s underneath.

This took 60 grit scuffing with my orbital sander

The places where I wasn’t going to stain, didn’t need to be taken down to bare wood, it would just be more work that wasn’t needed.

I wanted the illusion that this piece had A separate Base. So I taped of where I wanted it to begin.

I primed 3 coats because the cherry looking stain is Always bad for bleeding.

I used zinsser shellac based primer

I did 3 coats

After I added the wax I sanded with 220 grit than top coated

I’m obsessed with this hardware! I got on amazon for dirt cheap!