Eventually, my dad painstakingly sanded it down to the original finish (before Donna painted it the green-tan-gold that reminded me of Dark Shadows and which I really liked), and it sits in my parents' living room to this day. I hated the damn thing and was pleased when it ended up, sans mirror, in some other room as a sideboard.
#PAINTED WATERFALL VANITY MAC#
Like, gold in the way that Kraft Mac and Cheese is "yellow", by which I mean a fluorescent, wrong kind of gold. "I don't want to paint it! She gave it to ME!" My protestations went unheeded, and the piece was painted flat white, with the original brass handles spray painted gold. "You can have it, but we have to paint it," they insisted at the time. The meager pieces of furniture that made it to my generation intact included a deco vanity (not as fancy as the one above, but with waterfall) someone had painted white in the eighties', and a large, French Provincial style sixties' dresser with a kind of neat/weird sickly green-tan-gold finish, that my parents themselves insisted we paint white after my aunt Donna gave it to me.
I have a boulder-sized chip on my shoulder from my own family's history of whitewashing antiques to make them look "fresh" and "new" again with little regard to aesthetic choices. I give this seller a pass because some foolheaded relative of his probably made the decision to "update" this sideboard's look before it passed into his possession, as stated in the listing, but that doesn't make it any less depressing. It has it's original hardware as well, although the filigree piece on one side is missing. I believe there was originally a mirror attached at the top, the slit piece for it is still there. There are a couple of minor nicks here and there but with a bit of re-finishing work, this will be a really beautiful piece. It's in really excellent condition, it was painted white years ago (before it came to me) and the paint is wearing thin but underneath is a beautiful dark hardwood. I'm reasonably sure that this piece dates between the 1930s - 1940s. And I know, you're going "But what if the finish wasn't fixable? What if it had seen a hard life before it was painted?" So stain it darker! Sand that sucker down! Sell it to someone who wants it and spend the money on a new thing you like better! There just isn't an excuse.Īntique Dresser / Sideboard $100 OBO I have an antique hardwood dresser/sideboard available. Here's another piece that just should not have been painted. And you murdered it! So you could make it look like an imitation of its lessers!
Plenty with the round mirror and four-dresser-drawer set up (including my own at home in my bedroom), but none with a built-in setee. Do you see the curved wood bench that would cradle your little flapper looking self as you apply just the right amount of lipstick to perfect your cupid's bow pout? How about the hat-pin/glove box on the vanity at top right? I am honest when I am saying that I have never seen an antique deco dresser like this in real life. "Will bring a smile from ear to ear.Barbie will be jealous." And Lisa will be dropping a dime on you to the American Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Antiques. Nevertheless, in this case, it is a TRAVESTY that this art deco bench has been painted to ape some weird, Pottery Barn Kids looking crazy thing in the interest of selling it.
Live in a fifties' ranch and want to keep some period details but change others to fit your lifestyle? Dude, it's your house ( but if you go Lowe's commerical on that thing.I'm still going to be kind of mad at you). I agree whole-heartedly with the "if it's yours, you can do what you want with it to make it your own" philosophy of material goods ownership.
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