Well, some of you are so smart and you guessed right away what I was up to in my post yesterday.
Yes. I painted a Union Jack dresser. The concept came about a few weeks ago when I was moving some furniture into Lucketts. Karen carries a wonderful line of British themed wrapping paper and suggested painting a union jack sign. That idea transformed into the thought of making a Union Jack dresser.
I started hunting for a good candidate and found this one on Craig’s List. It was perfect.
It was handy that this antique dresser was already painted blue, but it needed a fresh coat, anyway. I stripped the top to reveal the gorgeous (and very heavy) solid wood underneath. I almost always change out the hardware on furniture, but when I noticed a plastic bag with the original hardware in it, I removed the modern nickle hardware in favor of the antique brass pulls.
Once the flag was painted and dried, I sanded the edges to give it a worn look and antiqued it. Now, I am glad to be an American, but I must say, the Brits have a pretty stinkin’ cool flag. They also have the most amazing cottages and clotted cream. And they have a cool accent.
Anyway, I’m only showing tight shots of this dresser, but more details and tutorials will come down the road and I’ll let you know where you can find them.
Patience, patience. Until then, if you love this dresser with all your heart and must own it, it will be for sale at the Old Lucketts Store Ground Hog Day sale, February 4-6.
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Oh my goodness Marian, this has got the to be THE coolest piece of furniture I have ever seen. I love it! You are so creative. Wonderful idea!
Blessings to you,
Kathleen
Your dresser is probably one of the coolest furniture make-over I have seen! Love it…
I absolutely LOVE it! This one is gong to get snatched up right away. And can I say great minds think alike? I was linking up my own British Invasion post at Donna's, and was just tickled to see your dresser just above my own link! Too fun!
~Amanda
http://houserevivals.blogspot.com/2011/01/british-invasion-love-and-faux-tin.html
Love it! It is a cool flag.
Rhonda
GORGEOUS! I'm so incredibly inspired by you!
Wow, what a creative mind! I would have never thought to do something like that but it's really, really cool.
Love it. It's much harder to find nice old furniture cheaply in australia. I'm very jealous of your finds.
Love, love, love this!
Kat
1 word.
WOW!!
I absolutely love this dresser, but it would be cheaper to do my own here in OZ.
I absolutely love it! I can just picture it gracing a little boys bedroom! Sigh, if I had a little boy to grace it on! Ah well, once again a job well done!!
The dresser is fabulous!! Very cool!!
Hugs
SueAnn
Ok, I must sound like a complete and incredible nerd to say this so often to you, but. . . Love it! Honestly, I don't know if I'd even use it in my home, but we're fans of British tv here, and I think this would be so fun with a little tabletop tv in a guest room.
I absolutely love it and may have to copy it! It came out gorgeous. Thanks for sharing such a great look.
Awesome dresser! I may have to go check it out in person
Oh my! To die for! I want it!!!
Like everyone else who has commented I am GAGA over that dresser. We live on ENGLAND Drive and I am always tempted to incorporate little bits of Britain into our home. But the Scottish in me just canna do it!
sooooooo cute!!!! I absolutely adore any and all anglophile stuff- this is the coolest. well done.
LOVE it!!!! Hugs,Rachel
French Farmhouse 425
…totally, radically, awesome!!!!
so fun, i love this dresser!
I just saw this…I love it!!!!
Have posted it all over (which link back to you, of course!)
Ruth
As a Brit I can say that I wholeheatedly LOVE this dresser. Well done – its amazing
Just posted a link from my design blog at http://www.debrapaesslerdesigns.com/ to this page. I LOVE it. Well done, you.
Wow, that's a very attractive piece of furniture. I do love the design of the union flag. Unfortunately it's been over used by far right political parties (e.g. the BNP) to promote their xenophobic views, so much so that I wouldn't dream of having something like this in my house – there would be a lot of raised eyebrows! It's quite sad really, glad to see you can still appreciate the design in the USA.
AMAZING! I put a link on my blog to your dresser. Great inspiration for what I did. Check it out @ http://burlapanddenim.com/2011/09/union-jack/
I’m in love with this look. I love the Union Jack, have started adding accents here and there with it.
love this dresser… inspired to make my own.
A question, where did you find the wonderful UK/heraldry themed papers – those would be wonderful decoupage papers or artwork