Stained Ombre Dresser Set
by
Sarah Trop
After custom painting furniture for a friend's dining room and living room, Jessica and Brent decided to go ahead and have us redo 13 furniture pieces for 2 of their children’s rooms, a guest bedroom and their master bedroom. In addition to the furniture makeovers, we did all the interior painting. We worked with them to pick out paint colors and we talked through so many of the small details that make the room – the bedspread, wall treatments, lamps, lights.
We were planning out her master bedroom and we both agreed that this Mengel dresser set would do the trick. It’s modern lines were perfect so all we had to do is add a pop of color. Mengel Furniture Co. was started sometime just after the Civil War in Louisville, Kentucky. They made household furnishing and also wooden washing machines. They also started making wooden toys. These are high end solid oak pieces. Not something I’ve come across too often.
Here they are before. We were going to paint them all one color, but once we realized that they were solid oak, we just couldn’t cover it all up.
We were planning out her master bedroom and we both agreed that this Mengel dresser set would do the trick. It’s modern lines were perfect so all we had to do is add a pop of color. Mengel Furniture Co. was started sometime just after the Civil War in Louisville, Kentucky. They made household furnishing and also wooden washing machines. They also started making wooden toys. These are high end solid oak pieces. Not something I’ve come across too often.
Here they are before. We were going to paint them all one color, but once we realized that they were solid oak, we just couldn’t cover it all up.
We painted the outside of each dresser with Benjamin Moore’s Teal Tone 552. Then we stained the drawers – 1st drawer stained driftwood, 2nd drawer stained weathered grey, 3rd drawer stained dark walnut, 4th drawer stained ebony.
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Love the finished look, just wondering if you used Benjamin Moore stain too or was it from a different company?
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Had to stop and comment on this! I adore it. Fabulous, stupendous, beautiful. Very well done.😀😀😀
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I am good with the painting. What about the staining? did you strip the drawer fronts first? what is the best way to go with that?