Do I or don't I? I don't know! I loved the idea of doing a graphic on the front of this little antique dresser. I think I will just take you through my journey of blood, sweat, and tears with her.
She started out like this....
Simple, clean lines with a little detail which happened to be a groove all the way around the edge of the drawers. This got me thinking.....I love French Typography and I thought this would be the perfect dresser to try it out on....
I asked a friend if I could borrow his projector because it just hooked up to my laptop and I thought it would be easier than trying to print off my graphic on a clear sheet and then trying to get an overhead projector. Well, 6 hours later I finally had the dang thing set up with the image the way I wanted it on the dresser.....except when I tried to trace the image my big, fat head was in the way the whole time! That was fun...and my paint pen kept going dry, so I switched to a sharpie (which I've read dozens of others have used successfully!), only to find out that when I went to distress the graphic the paint came off and left blue lines from the black sharpie....nice! And, the paint from the pen smeared and smudged all over and I had to spend the whole next day sanding off the gray...nice! By this time I was ready to throw it over the railing of my deck! I finished it, clear coated it, took pictures of it, and then stood back and looked at it and decided I hated it!!
Here she is with the french graphic...
Now, you may think this looks ok, but trust me when I say it did not! It just looked dirty, and "dirty" is not really what I was after. ;) I suppose the idea was great in theory, but if I am ever brave enough to try this again I will.....oh, who am I kidding? I will NEVER try this again. (Or maybe it's like childbirth and after a while you forget how painful the experience was and give it another go--who knows?!)
Well, I still wanted a graphic, so I chose something much simpler. I won't bore you with all the details (again!) but it did not go as I planned either and I realized I could have finished 5 normal dressers in the time it took me to do this one!
I'm still not sure how I feel about it, so I need your opinions (but, please remember I do have feelings!).
If the consensus is not good then I will just paint it white and call it good!
Here she is now:
I can't even talk about it at this point so I will just post the rest of the pics. :)
I really like this part. :)
This might not be what you want to hear.....I love the typography. The other one is nice, but I'm pinning the first. I'm sorry that this dresser was such a pain, I've been through a couple of pains. Try another one, I'd love to see it.
ReplyDeleteI like it both ways, though the first did look REALLY cool.
ReplyDeleteKaryn--I would have loved the typography, too, if it hadn't smeared all over and looked so bad when I was done. have you ever done something like that? And, if so, what did you use to do the writing?
ReplyDeleteI really like how you have it now. Very clean and simple looking. If I had room for it, I'd buy it!!
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