Refinished Milk Paint Vanity

If you're new to Saving 4 Six, I was given my grandmother's 1920s bedroom suit.  I refinished and milk painted the dresser already.  You can see that post here.  The bedroom suit had been sitting in a barn for about 15 years after going through a fire and suffering some water and smoke damage.

This is what it looked like before.  The soot was pretty thick on here.  You can see the marks from the doily that was on the vanity during the fire.

I got it all cleaned up and then started painting the drawers and bottom of the dresser with milk paint.

Milk paint is my new friend.  It is extremely durable and goes a very long way.  I bought one pint of the milk paint and was able to paint the dresser and vanity with just that one pint.

This is after I had roughed it up a bit

Next I sanded down the top

 and applied several coats of danish oil to it.

We finished it off by polishing it with wax.

This is the mirror before.  It too was still covered in soot and needed some cleaning up.

The mirror got several coats of milk paint and a little roughing up and now it looks beautiful on the vanity.
The last part of the vanity is the bench.

This is the original bench that came with the vanity.  It was numbered the same as the dresser and vanity.  It was really interesting to see all the layers of material on the bench seat...some very unusual polyester and every shade of pink imaginable.
I milk painted the base of the bench...LOVE milk paint.  Then covered the seat with a piece of material and a staple gun.

The outcome is super cute!
Ok, so it's darling in My Princess' bedroom!!

 

I love that My Princess gets to have and enjoy something that was her great grandmother's.
Blessings,

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