Monday, March 16, 2009

Mi Armoire

So before we moved to Flagstaff almost three years ago I bought this armoire from a place that sells used hotel furniture - you know those places? Anyway it was a great price for a very large and very solid piece of furniture (so large and solid that anyone who has helped move it, hates it) I like the lines and such and planned on doing something to it someday. I new I wanted some kind of texture inside the molding on the doors.When I saw this armoire at anthropologie my heart skipped a beat. So I copied it.I really love my new armoire. I changed a few things, obviously. It is just the way I wanted it. How we did it:
we did not paint it, we sanded it and stained it with blue stain. This was a lot harder that it would have been to paint it, but the look we got was great and much more lasting than paint. What I thought would take a few days took over a week of sanding here and there. If we had a belt sander it might not have been so long, but oh well. Russ' brother made a stencil for us (not exactly sure how) and then I cut the stencil out if freezer paper. Ironed the freezer paper to the doors and then spray painted it cream, then we spray painted the molding cream also. I love it and I am 100% okay with the fact that I am a born copier. Like Laurie from Little Women said - everything we create is "just mediocre copies of another mans genius." Well said.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you Russ for helping me do this.

7 comments:

  1. way to go Debbie. It is gorgeous!!! I'm glad you are okay with copying...because i'm thinking that I'll have to copy that one day!

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  2. I love it too. You are very creative and one day I hope to copy many of the things you do. :)

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  3. It is completely gorgeous. I am so impressed!

    p.s. I'm such a copier. who isn't?

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  4. Love it! Very impressed with your work ethic.

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  5. Yeah, I feel better knowing that you had a bad day too:) I don't feel better about the fact that you got something productive done though! I think I was feeling sorry for myself because Nick didn't get home until 8 pm last night. By the way I think you guys did an awesome job on the armoire! Let me know if you still want to come visit sometime.

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  6. That is awesome! Thanks so much for the link - I've been in love with that armoire for years. I'll have to be on the lookout for a Craigslist bargain that I can redo myself.

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