Painted Chest in the Foyer

Hello everyone!

I loved the color of the clock so much (from this post)  that I decided to add it to the chest of drawers in my foyer too.  However, I didn't really paint the whole thing.  I just dry brushed the blue paint over the grey so it instantly gave it an aged look. No wax was necessary. 

Here is the before:

This chest has been through many transformations.  It started out as a plain pine chest.  Then I painted it blue and the knobs white.  But, the blue was more blue than I cared for, so I painted it grey (to match my other furniture pieces).  Now, I've dry brushed a light blue all over it so it's a subtle change. 

This picture shows the color a bit better.

By simply dry brushing it on, I was able to do it quickly using some of the paint that I had left over.  It dried almost instantly too!

I styled the top by adding some faux lilacs in galvanized buckets. 

The paint that I used was from Farmhouse Paint and the color is blue toile.  I dry brushed that over a grey paint from Sherwin Williams called Fawn Brindle.

Hope you all have a great weekend planned!  I can't believe there is only one more week of school until summer break.  So, I better enjoy a quiet house while I still can!

Thanks for stopping by!

~ Dian Mayasari ~

Linking to: Best of the Weekend

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