The first furniture makeover of the year is here!
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I love how this little vignette came together. Alone the gray chest of drawers is neutral. It is painted with 2 coats of MMSMP trophy with bonding agent. It is a warm gray lightened and sealed with white wax. It is also a little lighter because the base of this chest was ivory when it started.
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This is a newer chest of drawers that was sporting a factory finish. It wasn’t bad, just uninspiring and of course I wanted to add milk paint.
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I lightly distressed the edges of the drawers to reveal the ivory underneath.
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It is just so fun with the addition of the garnet chair, lamp and other jewel tones proving the gray really is the go-to neutral right now.
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Funny story about that wingback chair…we have an ongoing joke in my family about the furniture shuffle that occurs. We actually have dubbed it the Marston Shuffle. It’s not quite a hand-me-down or even a prized family heirloom but more of a shuffle of furniture from home to home. This chair has been shuffled 3 or 4 times now.
We started noticing this trend when we were buying our first and second homes respectively. One family would be moving or upgrading furniture and no longer need a chair/table/dresser, etc. while another was trying to outfit a particular space where chair/table/dresser, etc. would work. And the Marston Shuffle was born!
A piece can come back to the original owner if need-be, although I am pretty sure that hasn’t ever occurred. Not yet anyway. Bottom line, if it is sturdy and well-made, then there’s always someone there to scoop up a cast-off piece of furniture when one sibling is no longer interested. I suppose that is actually the definition of a hand-me-down though, isn’t it? Well, we prefer to shuffle furniture.
We all have some hoarding tendencies around here I guess. That lamp by the way was originally mine. Now it’s my mom’s. Exhibit B.
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As for the fete of the chair, it is likely to end up with a light slip cover and maybe even some painted legs but I do love how the vintage, velvet garnet photographed here.
Do I dare say that it is close to Marsala, the color of the year?
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At any rate, the trophy chest of drawers is now for sale at The West End Garage which is open Friday-Sunday in January. The chair though, that will never leave the shuffle!
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Do you shuffle furniture around your family?
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