Ah yes! The DREADED country heart cutout! So many otherwise perfectly good pieces of small furniture are ‘kicked to the curb’ because of the outdated heart cutout!
And THIS piece had the double WHAMMY of being painted with roses and blue ribbon.
It’s an otherwise, cute little piece. Everyone LOVES things with ‘little drawers’. But the heart and the roses HAD to go. The orbital sander took off the roses just fine. (If you JUST paint over them they will still show up as the painted part is slightly ‘raised’)
Sometimes I just use carved wood appliques to cover up the heart cutouts. But this one was pretty BIG, and I didn’t like the ‘curve’ of the back. So Michael just cut a ‘cover piece’ and I glued it on top of the back piece. Then painted the whole thing black.
‘Dry bushed’ some mustard color paint; used a foam stamp to make stars at the center of each knob. Painted the knobs black too.
From foo-foo to primitive in about an hours time!
You can see LOTS more country heart make-overs in the outdated/updated category.
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