Gilded Grey Touraine Dresser

It's not a big secret

that my favorite colors to paint together are

Paris Grey and White...

add some gilding, and I'm over the moon

 Add to that the fact that the piece

being painted is

Touraine by Drexel...

yeah, I'm a happy girl!

 see all that gilding?

here's the story....

I patiently taped of all around the trim 

on the drawers after painting them...

gilded them, and removed the tape.

Along with the tape, off came the paint!

BOOO!

so I touched up the paint, after sanding it smooth

only to decide I really wanted to wax or glaze the piece

The problem, of course, is that once you apply wax or glaze over the gilding paste,

the paste comes right off...GRRRR

 Talk about a big production!

I ended up touching up all the gold trim by hand,

sealing just the gilded area before applying glaze

then sealing the gilded areas again once the glaze was dry

 On the top, we stripped off the hideous yellow paint

and refinished it with a gorgeous grey glaze

 I knew I wanted some interest to settle into the textured paint

but didn't want to go the usual route, with dark wax

 I used a dark grey glaze to add some interest

and I'm really pleased with the outcome!

I mean, really...would you just LOOK 

at that Serpentine body and curvy legs???  

You can purchase this dresser in our Etsy shop