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Old 05-14-2013, 07:54 AM
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I'm with you on fake colonial. You might be able to remove the pulls and the escutcheon plates behind them before refinishing and then replace only the pulls, adding some small washers to the bolts.
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Old 05-14-2013, 08:08 AM
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Milk paint in light turquoise with crystal drawer pulls....fill in the pegs with wood putty and sand to flat. This is a gorgeous piece...I'd love to have it....
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Old 05-14-2013, 02:26 PM
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i'm 100% with doghousemom. it's like she read my mind. putting a blank piece of wood on the front after removing the faux colonial wood would be easy. measure, go to lowes/home depot and ask the nice man in the lumber department to cut 2 pieces that size. take them home and wood glue them in place. done and done. not hard or time consuming and not expensive either. good luck! underneath it all there are good bones.
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Old 05-14-2013, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Candace View Post
Well, we have different eyes then, because all my eyes see is yuck.
And it's your table. So you should do with it whatever pleases you.
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Old 05-14-2013, 02:59 PM
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What wood? It looks like hard rock maple. If so, be sure to do proper prepping before you paint and use a base coat so the paint will stick good. Maple has such fine grain paint doesn't like it so much. Personally, I am like you, don't care for light woods, I would refinish it in Minwax Dark Walnut mixed with a touch of Red Mahagony (my personal favorite stain recipe LOL). The drawers could be jazzed up a bit with some wood carvings from Van Dykes or Rocklers to give it a bit of pizzazz.
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Old 05-15-2013, 06:24 AM
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http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/ard/3794983942.html

Candace, I thought you would be amused by someone else's idea of refurbishing a very similar cabinet.
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Old 05-15-2013, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Caroline S View Post
http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/ard/3794983942.html

Candace, I thought you would be amused by someone else's idea of refurbishing a very similar cabinet.
Oh wow. Let me add that to the list of what not to do!!
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Old 05-17-2013, 10:55 AM
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I actually have a similar cabinet and like it. Maybe some new pulls?
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Old 05-17-2013, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Candace View Post
Oh wow. Let me add that to the list of what not to do!!

Monolithic! hehehehehe! I must publish the picture ... :-D
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Old 05-24-2013, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by frudemoo View Post
Ah! So there is the infamous cabinet.

I can actually see it in a black lacquer - Chinoiserie style. Like this!
I like this too.
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