Distressed and Stained Curio Cabinet
Soooo this little gem I found on me of my daily craigslist hunts. I have the other one that is very similar that I purchased for our bathroom, but the other one I bought took me forever to find and cost quite the pretty penny. This one I got at a steal. It was in such great condition that I did decide to do chalk paint on, which I still don't think is the end all be all of paints but something about it keeps making me want to try it. I did have problems with it through. It kept cracking on me and the paint wasn't too thin or too thick so I had to read up on it. The Annie Sloan website said that sometimes there is a finish on the piece that reacts with the chalk paint by making it crack and what you have to do it paint it first with shellac. So that was a little annoying since I had already put two coats of chalk on there which weren't even covering well enough anyway.
Once I shellacked it and put one more coat and a few touch ups on it was good. Then I did a light distressing. My plan was to use Annie Sloan dark wax as the sealant but it made the white look yellowish and I didn't like that so instead I used a dark grey stain which have it that tonal effect and hit the carvings to make them stand out.
Once I was done and put the doors back on.....after hours of trying to figure out the hinges(hinges and I don't get along lol)....I didn't like that they shelves were a dark brown and the rest was grey and white colors so I painted the edge of the shelves and added some script print that I had messed with in Photoshop to give it a blurry background. It's the same script I use on a lot of my stuff and I'm pretty sure I got it off the graphic fairy website which has tons of free large images you can use for decoupage or transfers.
I would love to get the time to make some distressed medicine bottles to stage the inside of the cabinet but at the moment that will have to wait.
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