I'm going to start off with one of my pieces of furniture that I feel made the biggest transformation,
the "Isabel".
Here is the before picture...
I know what you're thinking, that thing is ugly! It's true when I first saw this cabinet I walked right by it because I thought it was too ugly to save. But then the owner had me take a second look and told me the story about the piece. She told me that her father in law had made the cabinet out of a few different pieces of furniture and that it had been in her husband's family for a very long time. After closer inspection and looking past the color, I started to notice the sweet lines on the bottom of the piece.
What ultimately sold me on this cabinet were its lock & key and the fact that it actually worked. When I brought home the cabinet I knew it would need a lot of work to get it to look half way presentable. The finish on the piece was a weird textured yellow paint with some kind of glazing that made it look dirty. The piece was really old so it could have been mostly dirt. After a lot of sanding and more sanding and a little patchwork I decided to paint it a solid white because I wanted to show off its interesting details.
As you can see in the before picture it had a plain ugly knob in the center of the door so I decided to change that out as well. I wanted to add a little shot of color to the outside so I chose this one from Antropoligie. It has blue and green in it and reminded me of a geo stone. I thought this knob would give you a hint there was a surprise inside.
The surprise was that I painted the inside a chartreuse green to give it a little funk!
After I finished the piece I needed some inspiration for a name and my friends' daughter immediately came to mind. Her name is Isabel and she has a very cool distintive fashion style. For an eleven year old (now 12) I am always impressed on how Isabel puts an outfit together, she always adds a little funk!
In the summer I showed this piece at a local market and invited my friend and her daughter to come check it out. As things turned out Isabel fell in love with "Isabel"!
Isabel was in the process of redecorating her bedroom and she had picked a turquoise blue color for the walls and thought the white cabinet with the funky knob would look perfect in it.
She was right!
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