Introductions: A white chest of drawers named "Gwyn"

This little beauty is a piece that I recently finished for clients getting ready to welcome their first little bundle of goodness into this world! The piece belonged to one of the grandmothers, but had been sitting in a storage shed for a while.When I first got the email with the photographs, I had been told that it had been painted an olive green color. As you can see in the first photograph {before stripping} it actually looks like wood grain. I was a bit perplexed and so I questioned my client about it and she insisted that it was painted. Well, when the piece arrived at the studio it all made sense. The piece had been painted..... in a greenish wood grain pattern...and I have to say.....it was well done. I would have been fooled.Since the client did not want any of the original olive "ish" color coming through the white when distressed, I stripped the piece to remove the painted finish. I was really surprised {again!} by the wood pattern that lay underneath all of the paint! Granted....it is a wood veneer {you can see the four panels of veneer if you look really close }, and not a solid slab of wood but still....it was pretty. I did consult with my client to see if they would like for me to leave the top raw wood and just paint the base, but they wanted to go ahead and paint the entire piece...so I obliged.....happily.We left the original handles on this piece in order to keep a little piece of grandmom attached to the piece.....and I think they fit the look nicely. It is rare for me to champion keeping original hardware on a piece....but in this case, the decision to keep them is a good one. It warms my heart to see people make intentional and meaningful decisions.I am happy......clients are happy.That's what I'm talking about.xo,Barb