Roses Wardrobe Closet
IKEA furniture might be easy to fit into a compact car, but it doesn’t exactly inspire thoughts of Yesteryear Romance. (Unless I’m drooling over an IKEA cinnamon roll, I suppose.) Fortunately, the company flirted with a Farmhouse look in the mid
-nineties. And that’s when I snapped up this happy little shelved number. The cream finish was IKEA. The pinkish-purple roses were a stencil. What I liked about this particular stencil was that it came in layers, indicating which colors should be used on which layers. This helped give the roses a depth I couldn’t have achieved on my own. Painting-for-Dummies, really. The remaining details were done free-hand with a paint pen. All I did then was change the plain wooden knobs to some new porcelain knobs with roses on them. Easy-peasy!
-nineties. And that’s when I snapped up this happy little shelved number. The cream finish was IKEA. The pinkish-purple roses were a stencil. What I liked about this particular stencil was that it came in layers, indicating which colors should be used on which layers. This helped give the roses a depth I couldn’t have achieved on my own. Painting-for-Dummies, really. The remaining details were done free-hand with a paint pen. All I did then was change the plain wooden knobs to some new porcelain knobs with roses on them. Easy-peasy!The most entertaining part for me has been when guests ask if the piece is a family heirloom. “Er, sure. Uncle... Sven... brought it over from the homeland. Yeah... that’s it. Sven.”
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