rustic blue sideboard

It makes things a lot easier if a client has a vision.  If they can show me three pictures of what they like, I can usually come close to their vision.  This was a dark mahogany stained server with great storage and in fantastic shape.  My client wanted something rustic and distressed that sat flat on the floor. It took a few weeks to find but it was perfect.  Painted in Benjamin Moore's Old Pickup blue mixed with plaster and then sealed in a dark wax.  

I didn't know whether or not to leave the hardware or clean it up to a pretty shine.  I bought this sideboard as a set with a matching china cabinet so I tried both finishes on the hardware.  I liked the cleaned up version, but my client like the more rustic, untouched hardware.  

See? Client with a vision really helps!

Right at home!

Red Redo

 This cabinet came with my sister's house.  It is half wood and half mdf and therefore weighs 500 lbs (maybe a little less).  It wasn't being used and my cousin needed a TV console.  See how it works in my family?  I painted it inside and out because naked mdf looks like...  mdf.  It's cute now!  Oil rubbed bronze on the hardware, a colonial red paint and a tiny bit of distressing, sealed in my homemade Jacobean wax. It looks right at home in my cousin's 200 year old Cape! 

I painted the inside white and green.  It's clean and a little unexpected fun.