Recently, my good friend, Barbara, was working on giving her hair salon a makeover. She showed me a little white cabinet & said she thought she would paint it. To which I replied, "you know what you should do? Let me paint it." She was more than happy with that so it went home with me & I went to work without her having any idea what I'd do to her little white cabinet.
This piece had a shiny, slick surface so I gave it 2 coats of Dixie Belle's Bonding Boss to help the paint adhere. It works as a primer to not only help the paint adhere, but also blocks odors & bleed through.
Barbara had given me a piece of the light, gold wallpaper that would go on a few accent walls & I wanted to pull that in to the cabinet. So, I painted the recessed sections of the cabinet with 2 coats of the Moonshine Metallic color, Gold Digger.
Since the Gold Digger was too dark, & I wanted to add a little texture, I did a crosshatch pattern over the gold with the metallic color, Wedding Bells.
Before painting the rest of the cabinet, I added a little petroleum jelly to the perimeter of the gold. This helps make it easier to remove any paint that gets on the gold.
After painting the cabinet with 2 coats of the Silk color, Anchor, from Dixie Belle, I used a paper towel to wipe off any of the black paint that was on the gold. I did have a little touch up to do, but the petroleum jelly made it so much easier & faster.
I chose a black knob & used my finger to add just a touch of gold gilding wax to the raised areas & edges of the knobs.
The cabinet had a marble top that Barbara wanted to keep & it looks great with the black & gold.
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