I am cursed with an inability to resist buying pieces of seemingly irredeemable furniture, as long as they seem like bargains. Re-doing them often appeals to me more in the abstract than in the concrete. The concrete entails groundsheets, painter's tape, sand-paper, primers, brushes, rollers and lashings of elbow grease. An absence of cat hair would also be a bonus. Normally such a project would also require another person to help get me motivated to start or finish the renewal process, as well as to help me move the big lump around during work, and when work is (miraculously) done. My garage, literally one of the dampest places on the planet, is full of junk store side tables, mirrors and brown objects that no one else seems to see potential in.
Inspired by reading Chris' Just a Girl blog about her methods of refinishing similar big brown pieces, I have decided to have a serious go at it myself. While in the U.S. I can find some of the Benjamin Moore Low Lustre Metal and Wood Enamel and a small roller (indispensible for a great finish) to take back to Italy with me.
A few weeks ago I found this sideboard in my local junk store and figured I could chop off its legs and use it as a repository for some of my ephemera collection. I think I have decided that matt black will work well for its intended location. This baby is 96 inches long and about 41 inches tall with its soon-to-be-ex feet. How those two poor guys sweated and grunted delivering it to me at home. If I ever move again, it could literally, with a more sensible top, be fully half of a kitchen.
Is black too much? How would you propose I improve it? Can this sideboad be saved and live a useful life again?
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