What Goes Around...

My parents have a cedar hope chest at the foot of their bed that has been in that exact spot for...I'm not sure exactly, maybe 30 years?  One day when I was a child and in the throes of an enthusiastic art project that apparently required a hard-tipped pen, I added some deep, deep gouges to the top of the chest.

They're still there.

So when I walked into our guest room a few months ago and saw this, I could hardly get mad.

That's the nightstand in the guest room.

As luck would have it, I was invited to sample some new paint by Devine Color a while back and had chosen a really lovely pale grey with the slightest blue undertones called Beluga.  My original plan was to paint the guest room walls with it but I ran out of time getting our house ready for sale so this damaged nightstand was the perfect backup use for the paint.

The process was really simple.

1. I used a pad sander to sand the top only super smooth and erase the gouges.
2. I used my paint sprayer to coat the whole piece in Kilz Bulls Eye Primer.
3. Once the primer had dried I used the sprayer to apply a thin coat of Devine Beluga.
4. Once that coat had dried I did a second one.
5. I finished it all over with a sprayer-applied top coat of Minwax Water Based Polyacrylic in semi-gloss.

I replaced the original plain wooden knob with one I had bought at Anthropologie years ago and just recently took off our old changing table.

I really love this color -  it picks up the blue in the Euro shams on the bed just enough to tone down all the green in this room.  

 

I really would have liked to paint the walls with this color, too!  Though I probably wouldn't have used the same color on the nightstand then and I do like how it broke up the matchy look going on before.  I've slowly been coming out of my matchy phase the past few years and here's another break-up under my belt.

Are you a matchy type or are you digging the broken set look?