Vancouver & Lower Mainland Portrait Photographer

Hello everyone!

I am extremely excited to announce the launch of the brand new website and blog at  www.rebeccasehn.com.   If you subscribe, be sure to update your feed!

I will no longer be posting on this page, so I shall see you all on the flip side.  :)

New Website:  http://www.rebeccasehn.com

New Blog:  http://www.rebeccasehnblog.com

New Facebook Page:  http://www.facebook.com/rebeccasehn

It’s no secret:  I LOVE anything that looks vintage, worn, eclectic….or just plain old (I prefer to call it ‘loved’, though.)   :)

Although my new office is incredibly tiny (I prefer to call it ‘cozy’…) I still need to furnish it in some way, shape, or form.  And because I’m not quite sure how free a rein Adam will give me when it comes to decorating our future home, I have decided to take all my decorating dreams into the office instead.  Therefore, it will be decorated with my favourite shade of green, a few eclectic pieces, and some vintage flair.

The problem with antiques is that they usually come attached to a monster price tag – the pieces I love the most always seem to be in the thousands!  So my solution for one such piece was:

1) Purchase an incredibly inexpensive second hand nine drawer dresser.  It was originally purchased at Woodwards in the 1940’s.  I forgot to take a ‘before’ picture, but it was a dark walnut finish – you know the kind.

2) Sand it (well, Adam actually did most of the sanding….)

3) Paint it  2-3 coats (with lots of help from Adam and my mother…)

4) Sand the edges and bash it up a little.  I used a sanding sponge block -worked perfectly, a hammer to give it some nicks and dents, and then I took a chain to it and basically just beat it up.  (Yes, it was totally fun.)

This is what the edges look like now:

And these are the original handles, which I re-affixed to 6 of the 9 drawers.  I’m thinking about distressing it a little further with some tinted paint – especially right around the high contact areas like handles.

The dresser was missing a handle, so I bought three new ones for the centre three drawers.  They’re a little too yellow, so I’m going to paint them with the same paint I used on the office walls (like the colour on the right.)

I was too lazy to go get my wide angle, so this is the best I could do in my garage:

If you’re thinking of taking on a project like this and want to do it properly (aka spend more time on it than I did), I found a really great step-by-step article here.  She seems to really know what she’s talking about.

What do you think?   Love it?  Hate it?