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Monday, September 2, 2019

Hope For The Chest

This hope chest was minutes away from going on a burn pile!

A friend called to tell me that he had a few things I might be interested in, but the fire was lit and if I wanted anything I'd have to come right over. Luckily I was able to get there in time to rescue a few things. 

This hope chest was missing the skirt around the bottom that forms the legs. 
 It was also missing the knobs on the faux drawers.
I gave the chest a fresh coat of paint using Dixie Belle's color Caviar.

 Rather than put new knobs on, I used re*design with Prima molds & modeling material to create medallions to cover the holes.
 I painted the medallions with Dixie Belle's Moonshine Metallics using the color, Gold Digger. Then I glued them over the holes using E6000.
 I also painted some small legs that I found at Lowe's using the Gold Digger.
 What a shame it would have been if this chest had gone up in flames!




The lesson...
Call before you burn!
There are plenty of us out there that love to rescue & revive discarded furniture.

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4 comments:

  1. Yes, thank goodness another perfectly good piece of furniture didn't go up in flames or end up in the landfill. What a transformation - you did a gorgeous job on this chest, Virginia! So what does your friend think of his old chest now?

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  2. WOW. What an awesome transformation! Great idea to make the medallions. It looks so high-end now, funny he wanted to burn it:)

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  3. I bet your friend might be second guessing his decision to get rid of that hope chest - it Looks great! The Prima molds & modeling material looks like an interesting product.

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