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cimoreneHere's the finished dresser!
Wax and I glued and clamped one of the interior rails, glued the front feet back on, and made a serious attempt to glue in the one board that keeps falling out of the bottom of the middle drawer. I mixed a darker shade of green milk paint, which was more pigment than advisable and a huge pain to paint with. But it was all worth it! After that I lightly sanded along the edges with 150 grit sandpaper, vacuumed up the dust, and covered it with a coat of hemp oil, which darkened the color to this, and which will gradually harden into a protective coat over the next month.
Afterwaxjism's suggestion that we use this single roll of wallpaper (Pihlgren & Ritola Atomi in discontinued green) in this alcove, I got enthusiastic about decorating the upstairs landing. I keep makeup and skincare routine stuff on top of this dresser usually, because it's often easiest to see here at the big mirror I posted about Saturday. Making the dresser coordinate makes more of a focal point of this alcove.
I didn't realize, when we were telling the electricians what to do in the bathrooms, that if you skip the standard medicine cabinet with its ugly built in light and replace it with a cute retro mirror you won't have enough light to apply eyeliner in the bathroom mirror anymore. It turns out that the wisdom is that good bright light from beside the mirror is needed; the centered globe light above the downstairs powder room mirror creates disorienting shadows, not that anyone would be trying to apply makeup there usually.
The upshot of all this is that I need another mirror there over the dresser with one wall sconce on either side of it, but I'm having trouble getting the right lamps. They have to be the kind of wall lamps that plug in, and they have to fit the spot, which turned out rather 1960s although my concept for the whole upstairs in general is 1970s. There's always a drawback in vintage lights that they typically have old-style ungrounded plugs, but I haven't found anything even similar to my vision in newer production. Oh, there are various things that look like they could've been made in the 60s and 70s, but it's always the wrong bit of the decade. Mod won't work (like our kitchen light), space age won't work (like our living room and dining room lights, although the rooms are basically anchored in 1950s aesthetics because the house was built in 1950): a hint of midcentury traditional is needed. I guess I'll keep haunting tori.fi (Finnish Craigslist sort of) for the next month or so.
Wax and I glued and clamped one of the interior rails, glued the front feet back on, and made a serious attempt to glue in the one board that keeps falling out of the bottom of the middle drawer. I mixed a darker shade of green milk paint, which was more pigment than advisable and a huge pain to paint with. But it was all worth it! After that I lightly sanded along the edges with 150 grit sandpaper, vacuumed up the dust, and covered it with a coat of hemp oil, which darkened the color to this, and which will gradually harden into a protective coat over the next month.
After
waxjism's suggestion that we use this single roll of wallpaper (Pihlgren & Ritola Atomi in discontinued green) in this alcove, I got enthusiastic about decorating the upstairs landing. I keep makeup and skincare routine stuff on top of this dresser usually, because it's often easiest to see here at the big mirror I posted about Saturday. Making the dresser coordinate makes more of a focal point of this alcove.I didn't realize, when we were telling the electricians what to do in the bathrooms, that if you skip the standard medicine cabinet with its ugly built in light and replace it with a cute retro mirror you won't have enough light to apply eyeliner in the bathroom mirror anymore. It turns out that the wisdom is that good bright light from beside the mirror is needed; the centered globe light above the downstairs powder room mirror creates disorienting shadows, not that anyone would be trying to apply makeup there usually.
The upshot of all this is that I need another mirror there over the dresser with one wall sconce on either side of it, but I'm having trouble getting the right lamps. They have to be the kind of wall lamps that plug in, and they have to fit the spot, which turned out rather 1960s although my concept for the whole upstairs in general is 1970s. There's always a drawback in vintage lights that they typically have old-style ungrounded plugs, but I haven't found anything even similar to my vision in newer production. Oh, there are various things that look like they could've been made in the 60s and 70s, but it's always the wrong bit of the decade. Mod won't work (like our kitchen light), space age won't work (like our living room and dining room lights, although the rooms are basically anchored in 1950s aesthetics because the house was built in 1950): a hint of midcentury traditional is needed. I guess I'll keep haunting tori.fi (Finnish Craigslist sort of) for the next month or so.
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Date: 14 Aug 2023 06:32 pm (UTC)And so glad the dresser and its alcove turned out well.
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