Antique Chest Of Drawers Gets A Makeover

This is an interesting project..the client's Aunt painted the flowers in the 1920's, she thinks, and she wants to save that art work, but give the piece over all a new lease on life with a lot of excellent bright colours....You can see this piece in the background of a photo two posts back I think... it was just white all over...


The red stool is something I am painting too, while I am at it; I love that red! Its also very good to sit on while I work....

Early days on this yet, but do like the way I have had the heirloom painting meet the new paint here on the front. I will tidy up and re-emphasize some of the original antique floral later on...

I LOVE these colours. Well, anything with red usually floats my boat....

Finished Chairs

While I was working on the chairs, I snuck these two stools into the mix....once your painting all these colours, and feeling full of energy, no point in just doing a little bit...

Here are the two chairs completed.....I have a feeling they are antiques, especially the larger one. It seemed very old, ...and I think its oak.. they are quite interesting shapes, and very comfortable. They are very solid too. Good for standing on.

They are great. they look like candy.

Painting Furniture

I am on a total roll....I have several chairs, a table and a chest of drawers to paint....I haven't painted furniture in quite a while, and its a really nice change!

I simply cant stop, especially when I have a lot of colours all mixed up ready to go in very nuanced , and not so nuanced (!)shades ; it becomes so satisfying to put them next to each other in a sequence...

A lot of work goes into chairs... all those spindles! And underneath bits! Much dripping to curtail in a timely fashion...
some days, after hours of work and concentration, it feels like I haven't got anywhere!

But the result is they all get done at once...very cool. This table will get the treatment soon....I am thinking fish and waves with a pattern in the centre...