While my daughter was at karate I popped into the local thrift store near by and found this ugly, but beautiful dresser!
Before:
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High Gloss |
The dresser was old and had great bones (beautiful part), but the paint on it was very high gloss and an ugly brown/orange. I of course loved it and bought it right away.
My first thought was to strip the top down to natural wood and so I got out my paint stripping goo and started working.
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B
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C
A) First layer of stripper
B) Second layer of stripper ( you can see the next layer of paint)
C) Third layer of stripper (layers of brown, yellow,green, tan paint)
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Gooey scraped paint |
After getting the paint off the top, I did a light sand and then sealed/stained the wood with AS dark wax. I didn't want it to look perfect and so I left bits of paint so it would have character.