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Happy Friday!   I am still recovering (get it?) from “le upholstery project“.   I enjoyed having a little time between projects and took some time to work on my home!  Something I know many of us love to do, but don’t always have the time. 

I worked on the “boffice”, I borrowed this term from Lisa at “A Vintage Vine”, who is working on her “cloffice”, closet office.   It is my office bathroom. 

The original paint treatment was something along the lines of caked poop meets wine cellar gone bad, and I don’t drink!   But, I know a bad “faux” treatment when I see one.  This was one of my first “experiments”, that I didn’t correct………for 7 years.

I know, painful to look at.  Imagine trying to have some solitude with this next to you! 

This is the new neutral.  I bought chalk paint to Redoux the Cabinets! 
Can’t wait to try out this fab new product that you are all raving about. 
Oh yes, I have to touch up the trim too……the faux also spread to the trim by accident, making it look like, well, let’s just say my little boy has outgrown the “whoops, I missed stage”, 
Trust me, you don’t want to see it….. Instead, look at the lovely Gray……
Et maintenant pour le Joli……….
(And now for the Pretty one. ……… )

Spring is here in Nor Cal and we are truly enjoying our mild weather.
My roses have begun to bloom.
I took a couple snips of the first color to showcase an old Redoux.

This dresser was a “Free To Me”,
Friends of ours were moving to Manhattan and they had to shed 99% of their furniture.

I

 

Free furniture! 
I really did not need another dresser, but I had always wanted to try my hand

at converting a dresser into a storage space/bookshelf.

I knocked out the top drawer supports with a mallet, added a piece of MDF, a support behind the dresser, decoupaged some old Toile I had for the inside, aged it with my favorite wax, and did a several step paint treatment with my favorite Modern Masters Basic White, Coffee Bean Glaze,
and lots of colorant straight out of the bottle. 
It is lovely to have more storage and I love that it was FREE!.
Now, show off what you did this week! 
****s’il vous plaît****
Link back on your blog that you are posting here,
let’s grow this party! 
le plus le plus joyeux  (the more the merrier)
Happy Easter!  -Karen
PS I am linking up with Miss Mustard Seed and Shabby Nest

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  4. Susan @ Busy at Home says

    Oh my goodness! That shelf is so lovely! I have a dresser to do sometime soon and now you have me considering to take out some of the drawers. I would love your input on the piece (on the top of my blog)

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  5. Farmer's Wyfe says

    WOW!! That's beautiful!! You make me want to redo my dresser with missing drawers!! And I'm sooo envious of the chalk paint. I want to try it to!!
    Have fun and Happy Easter to you!!

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  7. Carrie @ Fine & Handy says

    That looks amazing! I love it when you think you know what the redo is going to look like (from the before picture) then you scroll down and it's nothing like what you were thinking and it's way BeTTeR. Well done my friend 😉 Thanks for hosting again.

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  10. A Vintage Vine says

    Oh girl…..I am loving that “free dresser”…Using a mallet, knocking things down/out can be so theraputic! I am liking your second choice on paint color too (boffice)!! I am always having to redo..so you only needing to, in 7 yrs., makes me giddy!

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