Vintage Buffet turned from Drab to ooooh lala Paris!

 With the recent Paris and French Country design interests that I have been seeing pinned quite a bit, I thought I'd do my interpretation with this older vintage buffet from the early 1950's.  I bought it from a wonderful lady that inheritted it from her aunt.  I also bought a chippy antique table and chairs from her...I can't wait to show you those.  But I digress, it seems like I have been working on this piece for months, but really its been a few weeks only.  I have been working on multitple pieces at a time lately...so quite a few are ready all at once.  I find it more efficient that way.  While one piece is drying, I can move on to the other, and so on.





You see, this is what my drive way looks like on most days.  That's the old orange/brown hutch on the right.

Here's what I started with.  Great bones, curves, solid wood, tounge and grove joints...just a wonderfully made in the USA piece of furniture.  I was more than happy to show her some love with Sherwin Williams Dupe for Annie Sloan's Old White (1 qt for $4.xx on sale) & Annie Sloan Paris Gray (1 qt for about $40).

You can view the post at Altar'd Designs that gives all the details of what colors match the AS Color Pallette.  Annie Sloan Color Dupes

The only 2 dupes I have used so far are Old White and Old Ochre.  The Old White I don't have an AS one to do a color match, but on the Old Ochre...i just had to touch up an Armoire that I will be posting this week with the Sherwin Williams match to it, and it was perfect!  You can't even tell where I touched up once it dried.  I'll be sure to give you a close up shot when I post that one.  Let me just tell you, SW's was on sale for $4.xx a couple weeks ago, when I bought 5 diff. dupes...that's a huge savings and I plan on absolutely using those in the future.  I love AS, but those prices are just so high...

I used TSP to clean her up and got started with my chalk paint.  I used 2 coats and then a couple touch up spots.

I found the "Paris" knob at Hobby Lobby after the piece was already painted and just knew they were perfect for this little piece.  I had a hard time letting this one go.  I really really am happy with it.

I also made up some Silver Platted Chalk Board Trays to accent it.  What do you think?  Do you like the color combo's?  It's in the shop now, $400 and it's yours!