My Stunning Striped Armoire for a Boys Nursery

One of my sweet blog followers commented that my teaser picture of the wardrobe/armoire looked “wickedly wild”….. I love it!!!!!

Now, I KNOW some of you are frightened…..but, remember it’s not staying in my dining room….it’s going in a newborn baby boy’s nursery to be used as his closet.

His bedding is this precious polka dot from Nell Hills. The piece is going to look A-dor-able in his room.

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His momma picked out the Sherwin Williams paint colors and gave me an inspiration photo which had very unmeasured, uneven stripes on it.

I convinced my hubby to let me paint the piece in our dining room. And I pinkie sweared not to spill paint on the carpet.

 

 

Then the taping nightmare began……I used different sized tapes spread out at different widths. Like this one in 1.88 inches and this one in .75 inches.

And Ava “helped” by making a “tape tower”. Oh boy.

 

And she dressed herself that day.

 

And we hadn’t brushed her hair.

No judging, ok?

 

I did NOT level the tape lines. I found that if I let the roll of tape hang….it would kind of level itself. Very precise I know. But you need to remember it’s more important for stripes to “LOOK” straight than actually “BE” straight. I had to tweak a few lines and adjust some things over the edges and beveling so that it APPEARED perfect.

 

 

I organized my four paint trays of colors and promptly threw up a little as I began to paint. OMGosh these colors were so bold. But sometimes I just gotta paint it afraid. I KNEW it would look amazing in the end.

 

 

Here is how it looked after 6 hours of taping and painting.

 

 

The next day, I came back and taped over some of the cream lines that were originally taped over. I knew taping over fresh paint would pull the paint off in chunks and I wanted to use that to my advantage.

I also dressed myself this day.

 

And had not brushed my hair either.

 

Sigh…….

 

 

Then the sanding began. Remind me to never sand a piece of furniture in my formal dining room again. The dust was thick! Hubby didn’t complain, but I think I noted some twitching. God, I love that man.

I used a metal putty knife to go over the whole piece ….it is great on edges……

And it would randomly take off paint in chunks like this. It helped to make the distressing look more natural than a sanding block, which sometimes sands in “lines”.

 

 

And here she is……all finished.

I painted the inside the Softer Tan and my client to installed a clothing rod. 

Then, we had to load it. Or er…..my husband and neighbor and client had to load it. Oh Lord! That is one big wardrobe!

Too big even for a truck bed. It had to go on a trailer.

 

Oh the things we do for paint……

 

We buy perfectly beautiful, wooden armoires and paint them gorgeous…. just to sand the heck back out of them and make them look old again.

 

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eventually I got to see the striped armoire in her son’s room. Seriously, is this not the cutest nursery ever for a little boy named Dax??? Those polka dots are actually 3-dimensional and my client’s husband cut them and painted them.

I would have liked to have stolen the curtains in here also. All pleated at the top. Stylin’ indeed.

So much fun to get to see my work in its own room!

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