Silver Dresser with a Trick!

{update: this dresser has changed since, click HERE to see what it looks like now)

The number one question I get is why I didn’t have a post about my silver french provincial dresser that is on my “Before and After” page. I am talking about this one:

You can see my painted lamps here and my DIY ceiling fixture here.

And here it goes:
The reason why I didn’t write a post about it is, besides the fact that it was refinished post blogging times,…well, I’m not happy with the outcome. Yes, it does look beautiful on pictures and the regular person coming to our house would never notice that I have issues with it. Maybe it really is just that I’m too picky!

Let me explain.

I knew that I wanted a silver french provincial dresser but wasn’t sure about what product I was going to use. After partially gold leafing this dresser, I was not going to attempt silver leafing this large dresser and to be honest, I don’t like all the lines and cracks that the leafing leaves behind. It would look good on a more simple dresser, but the french provincial detail and curves were not calling for the silver leaf in my book!
So I had to decide on paint and I thought I was being real smart when I just grabbed the silver/metallic spray paint. I had used the Rustoleum Metallic Spray Paint before, for lamps, mirrors and one striped dresser for my sister-in-law.

Ahhh, yes the drawer pulls are upside down on this picture, but that’s how she likes it 😉

Hers was fine for a while. She used it in her guest bedroom and it doesn’t get used as much as mine ubt after a while she also had trouble with the top of the dresser and some of the finish coming off.

Don’t make the same mistake as I did, I really mean it. Don’t use it on furniture. When they say don’t use a protective enamel on top, they really mean it. To me, this line of spray paint is actually stupid and they should go back to the drawing board and rethink their product. It’s not durable at all.

Next time that I’m painting a silver piece of furniture, I will try out the silver Ralph Lauren paint that I have left in my garage or silver rub and buff.

Here are some pictures that I took during the painting. All went well and after the dresser was painted I decided to use a little antiquing glaze on it. I first just wanted it to be a modern silver but the glaze really highlighted the details.

I lined the drawers with black and white polka dots and stripes!

I was in love with the dresser until my hubby decided to place a lint roller on it. Yup, you heard right…a stupid lint roller on the top of the dresser and that’s where it all started. The “dear lint roller” took a huge chunk of the protective enamel and silver sheen of the top. I was so mad. Then I moved the lamps and tray from the top and they left dents and marks too. Ahhhhhhh! I can’t even put it into words. Stupid #$&@^’ paint!

You know what my solution was? Looking back, I have to laugh at what I did in anger.

Drum roll please…….

I took the lint roller and rolled the entire top of the dresser. And I’m sure I made a really mean and annoyed face while I did it. It required a whole roll and took most of the sheen off. Now it looks like an antiqued silver or smoked mirror affect. Not bad! Most people think that it was meant to be like this. I would show you a photo but you can’t really tell at all in close-up pictures.

Can you tell? Maybe a little, right? (The lamps you can see here)

To sum it up, I can’t recommend a certain silver paint or brand because it isn’t what I would hope it could be. Do I hate it? No, otherwise I would have already redone the dresser. I’m really not in a hurry to redo this one any time soon because it was a huge pain to partially strip and sand this piece of furniture.

So maybe I should just pretend that the lint roller trick was intended, haha! How revolutionary! Lint rolling paint!

So this is the truth about my silver French Provincial Dresser and why I haven’t posted about it earlier.

I wish you guys a great hump day fellow webbers und guten Tag!