Shelf Re-Vamp

Hello All!

I have a small project to share and two that are in the works so I will hopefully be ready to share those later this week. I work full time though so it's impossible to get good pictures until the weekend since it's dark when I get home. Anyway this is a little shelf I bought at Big Lots for $10. It was unpainted and maybe made of Cedar (not sure).  I will show you the after first.

I really like the way it turned out.

Here is the before:

I tried to paint it black, but it just wasn't looking right, so I went in the complete opposite direction.
I used white paint. Behr Swiss Coffee. Then I used gold craft paint and stencils for the swirls things and the bird. Here is a close up of the edges.

I also used walnut stain to glaze it and then distressed it and applied Minwax finishing paste.

I use this little shelf in my bathroom over the sink. I don't have a medicine cabinet and the vanity is just one big open space, so I have very little storage in there. I put products I use daily on this shelf. I would show you but it's not all that cute and this shelf is just temporary solution until I can get a new vanity put it. I think the one in there is original to the house. It has that ugly laminate fake wood with a yellow sink. Anyway I will save it for the before and after when I get to re-do that bathroom.

Thanks for stopping by!

Amy

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