Duck Egg Blue Curvy Dresser

This old dresser was big, heavy, and pretty ugly!!!  The brown you see isn't wood, it's a nasty brown paint that was slapped over the wood by a previous owner.

 

I've already posted a few other projects that I've used chalk paint on, but this was actually my first CP piece.  :)  Earlier this summer I won Kathie's CP giveaway!  The giveaway included two cans of CP, dark and light wax, and two crazy awesome waxing brushes.  I know...I am soooo lucky!

After much deliberation, I picked out Duck Egg Blue and Old White.

I went ahead and lightly sanded the dresser before I got started painting to smooth out the shoddy paint job it had been given years ago. 

I gave the drawers one coat of Duck Egg Blue, and the rest of the dresser base got two coats of the Old White.

I sanded the heck out of it, using my orbital sander as well as sanding sponges.

I waxed the dresser with clear wax and then hit only the white parts with the dark wax.

I stripped the top, sanded and stained it Ebony~

Wow...I did not realize the ebony would be so dark!  I wanted the top to match the shabbiness of the rest of the dresser, so I mixed up a whitewash of old white/water, brushed it on and let it dry.  After that, I sanded most of the whitewash off, leaving just enough white here and there to look like it had been worn off over the years.

I finished the top with tung oil and finally some Minwax dark wax~

Of course I could have used Annie's dark wax, but I wanted to save that for the chalk paint.

All finished~

Thanks for checking in!!! :)