Happy New Year! Hope you had fun ringing in the new year! I am excited for 2016 and all it’s possibilities!
Today I am going to show you a beautiful vanity I painted Annie Sloan Emperor’s Silk.
I know white is all the rage right now and I love white furniture but sometimes you need a little pop of color and what better way to get it than red!! I found this vanity a little while ago but was having trouble deciding what color to paint it. Last week I decided it was time, and red was the color that kept coming to mind. I wasn’t 100% sure so I went back and forth but when a piece of furniture speaks to you, you go with it. So red it was! 😉
I love the legs and height of this vanity but when I bought it I knew there were a few things that needed to be fixed.
The most obvious problem was a missing drawer. The front of the drawer was taped on but the actual drawer was no where to be found. My first thought was, I will just glue it on and it will have to be a false drawer. But my handy hubby said, and I quote, “I can build that”! haha 🙂 He’s pretty handy (lucky for me) so I hired him! 😉 I started painting and he started building.
Emperor’s Silk is a beautiful bright red. I put 3 coats on because the finish on this vanity was kinda slick and the dark finish was showing through on a few places after 2 coats. I didn’t do any distressing on this piece but I did want it to have an antique look so I uses A LOT of dark wax on this.
After applying a clear coat of wax to each area I immediately applied the dark wax generously and then worked it in. I have seen people apply dark wax right to the paint and then clear wax over that, but I like that the clear wax lets me work more easily to distribute the dark wax where I want it and take it away from the places I don’t want it. If you don’t clear wax your paint first you will need to paint over the dark wax if you don’t like it. But applying dark wax before the clear wax will give you a deeper and more noticeable dark wax look. Sometimes you may want that. I left a lot of dark wax in the crevices and I when I was brushing the dark wax on and rubbing the extra off I made sure to always go in the same direction – side to side – to get a uniform look. You can see from the pictures that the dark wax changes the depth of the color. I love it on Emperor’s Silk. I did a chair in the same color and didn’t add any dark wax. You can see that post here: http://thecindyproject.com/?p=39 Either way you can’t go wrong with this red.
About the same time I finished painting the vanity my amazing “Bob the Builder” husband finished the drawer.
So now instead of 2 drawers I have 3 working drawers. Thanks Jamie! 🙂 I painted it and put the hardware back on and here she is!
Loving the effect of the dark wax. Antique’d but not distressed to give it a beautiful elegant look. Perfect for an entry way or anywhere you want that “pop” of red!
Let me know what you think of Annie Sloan’s Emperor’s Silk. Do you like the dark wax? I would love to hear your thoughts.
Here’s to a great start of 2016!! Thanks again for stopping by!
Cindy
