Anglophile

Hello! I FINALLY finished the other piece I have been working on. I'm super happy with how it turned out, though I had a few snags along the way. Here is the piece I got, $35 at the Salv.:

Luckily it was in good shape overall. It has good bones, just needed some TLC.

I stripped the paint off the top...yes, it was painted. Probably done to cover up the pretty good size hole that had already been patched, but after a good sanding I noticed some spongy spots and I had to do some digging...literally.

Ugh. This process wasn't hard, just time consuming, and well, I'm really impatient. I had to use the filler about 5 times....let dry...sand...add more filler...let dry...sand...add more filler...you get the idea. Anyway, you can tell in this pic that there is a red dye bleeding through the filler. I just knew that would give me a problem when it came to the primer...and I was right!

That dye, whatever it was, gave me problems in a few spots. So I gave in and bought Zinsser's B-I-N spray primer, the ultimate stain blocker. And it worked!

 Here is my design for the front all taped off ready for primer and paint...

Primer coat...

 All painted and ready to reveal how well the tape worked....

 I must say, the tape worked might fine! It bled a little, but I had planned on distressing it, so that took care of it. The final product!

Before

After